It's that time of the year again, Boroondara! Here are the hottest 100 adult fiction titles borrowed from our collection in 2024. Together you have voted with your membership cards!

This year, more new titles have made the list for the first time than ever before. 

It's wonderful to also see more multicultural diversity reflected in your favourite reads of 2024. 

You can find many of the titles on this list in the 'Most wanted' collection on our catalogue.

To reserve items on the list, visit the catalogue page for our Hottest 100 books of 2024.

Boroondara hottest 100 adult fiction titles 2024

1. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 
2. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
3. The bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
4. The last devil to die by Richard Osman
5. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
6. Lola in the mirror by Trent Dalton
7. The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
8. Cold enough for snow by Jessica Au
9. The bee sting by Paul Murray
10. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
11. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
12. Happy place by Emily Henry
13. StoneYard devotional by Charlotte Wood
14. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
15. The soulmate by Sally Hepworth
16. What happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
17. The seven by Chris Hammer
18. The dictionary of lost words by Pip Williams
19. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
20. Good material by Dolly Alderton
21. Exiles by Jane Harper
22. Homecoming by Kate Morton
23. Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
24. Darling girls by Sally Hepworth
25. The raging storm by Ann Cleeves
26. The exchange by John Grisham
27. The man who died twice by Richard Osman
28. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
29. Resurrection walk by Michael Connelly
30. Green dot by Madeleine Gray
31. Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
32. So late in the day by Claire Keegan
33. Water by John Boyne
34. None of this is true by Lisa Jewell
35. The secret by Lee Child
36. Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
37. What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
38. Prophet song by Paul Lynch
39. Prima facie by Suzie Miller
40. Women & children by Tony Birch
41. Dead tide by Fiona McIntosh
42. It ends with us by Colleen Hoover
43. The running grave by Robert Galbraith
44. Foul play by Fiona McIntosh
45. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
46. The tilt by Chris Hammer
47. Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros
48. The fraud by Zadie Smith
49. The marriage portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
50. Hello beautiful : a novel by Ann Napolitano
51. Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
52. Tales from the cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
53. The secret hours by Mick Herron
54. The hummingbird effect by Kate Mildenhall 
55. The Rachel incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
56. Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton
57. Lady Tan's circle of women by Lisa See
58. The broken wave by Matthew Ryan Davies 
59. Day by Michael Cunningham 
60. Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson
61. Apples never fall by Liane Moriarty
62. No plan B by Lee Child
63. At the foot of the cherry tree by Alli Parker
64. Desert star by Michael Connelly 
65. It starts with us by Colleen Hoover
66. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
67. Simply lies by David Baldacci
68. The librarianist by Patrick deWitt
69. The murder rule by Dervla McTiernan
70. The tea ladies by Amanda Hampson 
71. The conversion by Amanda Lohrey
72. Romantic comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
73. Old God's time by Sebastian Barry
74. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Po-rŭm Hwang
75. Iron flame by Rebecca Yarros
76. The in-between by Christos Tsiolkas
77. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
78. Lucy by the sea by Elizabeth Strout
79. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
80. Foster by Claire Keegan
81. The covenant of water by Abraham Verghese
82. Butter by Asako Yuzuki
83. Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
84. So shall you reap by Donna Leon 
85. All that's left unsaid by Tracey Lien
86. Book lovers by Emily Henry
87. Days at the Morisaki bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
88. Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
89. Love, theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
90. Shrines of gaiety by Kate Atkinson
91. The edge by David Baldacci
92. Treasure & dirt by Chris Hammer
93. Slow horses by Mick Herron
94. The Collector by Daniel Silva
95. Verity by Colleen Hoover
96. Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell
97. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
98. Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
99. I will find you by Harlan Coben
100. Too late by Colleen Hoover

More information

• To reserve a book, visit the Hottest 100 Books of 2024 page on the Library catalogue. Use your membership number and PIN to place a reservation. Find information on reserving items at our Reserve and request page.
• See our summer holiday opening hours.
• Visit our Book groups page for many of the titles on this list, as well as reading recommendations and everything you need for book groups.