Reading
To inspire your summer reading choices we have had a look at what has been popular so far in 2024. This is our ten lists of Top Ten Titles!
From picture books for our youngest readers and their families to great reads for teens and young adults to fiction and non-fiction for adults. These have been the most popular titles during the first six months of 2024.
These lists have been compiled by looking at collections inside our libraries and at our wonderful online library of free digital resources.
To search, reserve and download, you can search the catalogue here and you can explore the digital library from here.
Top Adult's Fiction - General, Historical and Fantasy Fiction
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Top Adult's Non-Fiction 2022
- 1. The Hairy Bikers' one pot wonders
- 2. What it feels like for a girl
- 3. Ottolenghi simple
- 3. Veg
- 4. Italy
- 5. The power of geography : ten maps that reveal the future of our world
- 6. Slow cooker : recipes & preparation
- 6. Veg in one bed : how to grow an abundance of food in one raised bed, month by month
- 8. The gender games : the problem with men and women ... from someone who has been both
- 9. The wild silence
- 10. This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor
Top Adults Non-Fiction - last 5 years
- 1. Eat well for less
- 2. Reasons to stay alive
- 3. Vegetarian : 141 recipes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients
- 4. Healthy gut cookbook : 150 stage-by-stage healing recipes to improve your digestive health
- 5. River Cottage much more veg
- 6. Grandma
- 7. Gray mountain
- 8. Simple : effortless food, big flavours
- 9. Slow cooker : recipes & preparation
- 10. Lean in 15 : the sustain plan
Top Adult's Fiction Reservations 2022
- 1. The man who died twice / Richard Osman
- 2. The locked room / Elly Griffiths
- 3. Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens
- 4. The Thursday Murder Club / Richard Osman
- 5. Winchelsea / Alex Preston
- 6. Murder before evensong / the Reverend Richard Coles.
- 7. Sorrow and bliss / Meg Mason.
- 8. Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus
- 9. French braid / Anne Tyler.
- 10. The promise / Damon Galgut
Top Children's Fiction 2022
- Octopus shocktopus!
- Arlo : the lion who couldn't sleep
- I really really need a wee
- The whales on the bus
- The whale who wanted more
- The Smeds and the Smoos
- "No!" said Rabbit / Marjoke Henrichs.
- Little Red Riding Hood
- What the ladybird heard at the seaside
- The bug safari
Top Children's Fiction - last 5 years
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The gruffalo
- Opposites
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- The shark in the dark
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Ten little dinosaurs
- Superworm
- Ten little pirates
- The three little pigs
Top Children's Non-Fiction 2022
- 1. Guinness world records 2022
- 2. Guinness world records 2021
- 3. Mother Goose's nursery rhymes
- 4. Dinosaurs
- 5. Our planet
- 6. The Usborne alphabet picture book
- 7. Cooking step by step
- 7. Do you love bugs?
- 8. Where's the striker?
- 9. Kingfisher animal encyclopedia
- 10. The best ever baking book
- 10. Norse myths
Top Children's Non-Fiction- the last 5 years
- 1. Savage Stone Age
- 2. Dinosaurs
- 3. Times tables : with over 125 flaps to lift
- 4. First dinosaur encyclopedia
- 5. Guinness world records 2018
- 6. The animal book : over 100 incredible creatures and how we share the planet with them
- 7. Sharks and other deadly ocean creatures : visual encyclopedia
- 8. Wildlife in your garden
- 9. Where's the Wookiee?
- 9. The book of everything : a LEGO adventure in the real world
- 10. Animals
Top 10 e-books checked out in 2022
- 1. The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2)/Richard Osman
- 2. The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon/Matt Haig
- 3. Left You Dead: Roy Grace Series, Book 17/Peter James
- 4. Mindsight/Chris Curran
- 5. The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)/Richard Osman
- 6. How to Kill Your Family /Bella Mackie
- 7. The Girl in His Shadow: A Novel /Audrey Blake
- 8. Beautiful World, Where Are You /Sally Rooney
- 9. Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year /Kazuo Ishiguro
- 10. The Twyford Code: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Appeal /Janice Hallett