Denver Public Library's most-read books of 2024

The big picture: Denver readers went all in on fiction this year, with no nonfiction title cracking the top 10 across physical, audio or electronic books.

The top 10 physical books checked out were:

1. "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride (1,125 checkouts)
2. "The Women" by Kristin Hannah (1,009)
3. "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin (818)
4. "Tom Lake" by Ann Patchett (787)
5. "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros (752)
6. "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray (689)
7. "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus (652)
8. "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano (625)
9. "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver (574)
10. "Happy Place" by Emily Henry (563)

Denver's audiobook listeners had slightly different tastes with "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese leading the pack. Other popular audiobooks not seen in the top physical checkouts list included:

• "Eruption" by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
• "The Teacher" by Freida McFadden
• "The Exchange" by John Grisham
• "Resurrection Walk" by Michael Connelly

For younger readers, Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series dominated the charts.

• Across five different titles, Kinney's books were checked out nearly 5,000 times.