hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, today revealed the top digital media titles borrowed by library patrons in 2024. Based on circulation figures from library patrons across more than 10,000 U.S. public libraries, the data shows what digital library content was most popular across a variety of categories – including eBooks, audiobooks, BingePasses, movies, TV shows, music, comics and manga.
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hoopla Digital revealed the top digital media titles borrowed by library patrons in 2024. (Graphic: Business Wire)
“At the end of each year, it’s always fun to reflect on our most popular titles and what content patrons gravitated towards most over the course of the year,” said Jeff Jankowski, founder of hoopla Digital. “These reflections also help ensure we’re providing the best content possible to public libraries and their patrons. Having a variety of formats and an extensive catalog allows patrons to immediately explore all kinds of content and genres – without having to wait out extensive hold times.”
hoopla has more than 2 million titles across formats including eBooks, audiobooks, music, TV shows, movies, comics and more. All of these titles are available on one platform, most of which can be borrowed instantly with no holds and no waiting. The most popular borrowed eBook and audiobook titles and series of 2024 include:
- “Remarkably Bright Creatures” – Shelby Van Pelt
- “The Psychology of Money” – Morgan Housel
- “The Lost Bookshop” – Evie Woods
- “Never Never” – Colleen Hoover
- “Hillbilly Elegy” – JD Vance
eBook Series:
- “Bridgerton” – Julia Quinn
- “Harry Potter” – JK Rowling
- “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” – Jeff Kinney
- “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” – Rick Riordan
- “Food Group” – Jory John
eBook Genres:
- Fiction
- Romance
- Juvenile (Children’s) Fiction
- Religion
- Mystery & Detective
- “A Court of Thorns and Roses” – Sarah J. Maas
- “The Teacher” – Freida McFadden
- “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” – JK Rowling
- “Fourth Wing” (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] – Rebecca Yarros
- “Remarkably Bright Creatures” – Shelby Van Pelt
Audiobook Series:
- The “Court of Thorns and Roses” (ACOTAR) series – Sarah J. Maas
- The “Harry Potter” series – J.K. Rowling
- The Empyrean series (“Fourth Wing”) – Rebecca Yarros
- “The Boxcar Children” – Gertrude Chandler Warner
- The “Bridgerton” series – Julia Quinn
Audiobook Genres:
- Romance
- Sci-Fi &Fantasy
- Mystery
- Fiction
- Children’s
“2024 was a great year for eBooks and audiobooks – we saw borrows increase in both formats this year compared to 2023,” said Brad Rose, VP of Content Strategy. “Patrons’ borrows in 2024 showed they enjoyed a wide variety of genres and a mix of new, trending titles as well as series that continue to be popular for years and even decades. This further proves the importance of an extensive catalog that provides a range of titles that meets every patrons’ needs.”
When it comes to streaming content, hoopla offers a unique way to stream entire content collections for seven days with one borrow: BingePass. With over 30 BingePasses available, patrons can do a deep dive into a new hobby or current obsession for an entire week just like they do outside of the library with streaming services and other content. In addition to BingePass, hoopla offers music, TV shows and movies. The most popular borrowed titles across these formats in 2024 include:
BingePasses:
- Hallmark+ BingePass
- The Great Courses Video BingePass
- Hoopla Magazines BingePass
- “Oppenheimer: The Real Story”
- “The Whale”
- “Past Lives”
- “Leap!”
- “The Twisters”
- “Dark Winds”
- “Discovery of Witches”
- “My Life Is Murder”
- “Interview with the Vampire”
- “Chelsea Detective”
- Taylor Swift’s “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY”
- Taylor Swift’s “1989 (TAYLOR’S VERSION) [DELUXE]”
- Taylor Swift’s “Lover”
- Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”
- Taylor Swift’s “reputation”
hoopla also has a robust collection of comics and manga for patrons to access. Some of those top titles include:
Comics:
- “Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1”
- “Primer”
- Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”
- “Transformers Vol. 1”
- “Smile: A Graphic Novel”
Manga:
- “Berserk Vol. 1”
- “Attack on Titan Vol. 1”
- “Cat + Gamer Vol. 5”
- H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
- “Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol. 1”
“The data on 2024 borrowing behavior shows just how valuable our extensive catalog really is to libraries and their patrons – and why we continue to place importance on the titles that patrons come back to borrow time and time again,” said Cat Zappa, VP of Digital Acquisitions at hoopla. “Patrons have also shown us their openness to discovering new genres and titles, which is why we continue to bring them a diverse catalog and create new BingePasses to meet their evolving needs.”
hoopla is available in more than 10,000 public libraries across the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand including the Chicago Public Library, San Francisco Public Library and Los Angeles Public Library. To access content on hoopla, cardholders of participating libraries can download the free hoopla mobile app on their Android or iOS device or visit hoopladigital.com.
About hoopla Digital
With a mission to serve public libraries and their patrons, hoopla is the only all-in-one app that provides online and mobile access to millions of eBooks, audiobooks, comics and manga, music, movies, TV, and more with BingePass. Available in 115 world languages, content on hoopla is available for free with a valid library card. hoopla is the pioneer of the pay per use model that allows library patrons to borrow content immediately, no waits or holds required. Headquartered in Holland, Ohio, hoopla is a service of Midwest Tape, a trusted partner to public libraries for over 30 years. For more information or to download the hoopla app, visit hoopladigital.com.
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