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Some of the most checked-out books in public libraries across the country in 2024 include Kristin Hannah's The Women, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Emily Henry's Happy Place.

At the end of every year, public libraries around the country assemble lists of the books most borrowed by readers. From Charleston, S.C. to Cincinnati, Ohio, from New Orleans, La. to Minnetonka ...

By Neda Ulaby, NPR Some of the most checked-out books in public libraries across the country in 2024 include Kristin Hannah's The Women, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Emily Henry's Happy Place.

And in case you were wondering, 2024's most-borrowed poetry collection at the New York Public Library was Ocean Vuong's Time Is A Mother, about the loss of a parent and the Covid-19 pandemic.

He oversees the New York Public Library's 88 neighborhood branches. But it's important, he says, to remember the most-popular lists make up only a tiny fraction of what libraries circulate every year.