Media Release
21 January 2025
Libraries Tasmania’s Top 10s have been released! Find out what Tasmanians most loved to read and borrow in 2024.
Amazingly, Tasmanians borrowed more than 3.1 million physical and online items in 2024. Reflecting the increasing popularity of online resources, eLibrary loans increased by 6 per cent to just under one million loans and eMagazine issues increased by 51 per cent.
The full Top 10s 2024 list includes Libraries Tasmania’s most-borrowed physical and eLibrary items. It includes fiction and non-fiction titles for adults and young people plus crime, romance, audiobooks, eBooks, bilingual picture books and more.
Highlights were Girl Stuff for Girls Aged 8–12: Your Real Guide to the Pre-teen Years by Kaz Cooke as the most popular youth non-fiction book; Bluey: Dance Mode! taking first place over Taylor Swift’s Fearless in the music CDs. We Love Country by Leanne Pelikan, Kylie Dickson and Nicole Smith was the most popular children’s book by a Tasmanian author.
The most popular titles in Tasmanian adult fiction for 2024
- A Shadow at the Door by Joanne M. Dixon
- The Chocolate Factory by Mary-Lou Stephens
- The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire Van Ryn
- The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey
- Milking Time by Rachael Treasure
- The House of Now and Then by Joanne M. Dixon
- The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin
- Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
- Heartsease by K. M. Kruimink
- The Accident by Katie E. McMahon
The Top 10 non-fiction titles by Tasmanian authors
- Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
- A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
- The Good Life by Hannah Moloney
- The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook: Habits for Hope in a Changing World by Kirsten Bradley
- Good Life Growing by Hannah Moloney
- Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
- Tasmanian Gardens by Meg Ashton Bignell
- Seasons in the South: A Tasmanian Naturalist’s Journey of Discovery – and Recovery by Simon J. Grove
- Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
- The Empty Honour Board: A School Memoir by Martin Flanagan
The Top 10 children’s books by Tasmanian authors
- We Love Country by Leanne Pelikan, Kylie Dickson and Nicole Smith
- 10 Australian Animals by Jennifer Cossins
- Quentin the Quoll on Bruny Island by Kate Morton
- Sea Country by Patsy Cameron
- Saturday is Pancake Day by Bernadette Green
- The Monsters of Tasmania by Rachel Tribout
- Amazing Animal Journeys by Jennifer Cossins
- Stormy Night by Adam Thompson
- Tassie Rhymes for Little Tigers by Narelda Joy
- Come Over to My House by Eliza Hull and Sally Rippin
What were your favourite reads in 2024?
Visit Tasmania’s Top 10s of 2024 to see Tasmania’s favourite reads across 30 categories.
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