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These are the Most Read Books of the 2024 Goodreads Reading Challenge

These are the 144 books in 12 categories that were read the most for this year's Goodreads Reading Challenge. How many have you read?

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Dec 3, 2024

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2024 isn’t over yet, but Goodreads has announced the 144 most read books of this year’s Goodreads Challenge. Nine million readers logged more than 350 million books for the challenge so far this year, and Goodreads has tabulated the titles that appeared the most often, sorted into genre.

The categories are Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Young Adult, Memoirs, History & Biography, and General Nonfiction. It’s a little surprising that Young Adult is just one category: in the Goodreads Choice Awards, there’s a separate YA Fantasy category.

A glance over the list shows just how long the tail is for these titles: most of the biggest books this year are not 2024 releases. For example, the second most read fiction title in 2024 was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, which was the breakout book of 2022.

Here is just a selection of the 144 books marked as read the most often in 2024.