Adventure Pass Ending in 2025

Due to circumstances outside of our control, the Des Moines Public Library’s Iowa Adventure Pass service will no longer be available in 2025. Any reservation already made for 2025 will be honored, but we encourage anyone with a current reservation to print those passes immediately. Customers can make new reservations for passes that must be used by December 31, 2024. We hope to reintroduce the service at a later time, and we apologize for the inconvenience. 

The Most Requested Books of 2023

MR Books 2023

It's what the whole city has been waiting for - the reveal of the most requested books of 2023! All week long we'll be revealing the top 10 for different genres, culminating on Thursday where we reveal the overall 10 most requested books of the year.

You can check out the items in our catalog by clicking on the link to the full list in each category.

Overall Top 10

Lessons in Chemistry

1. Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus

  1. Spare, by Prince Harry
  2. Happy Place, by Emily Henry
  3. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
  4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
  5. Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros
  6. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
  7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  8. I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
  9. The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears

 

General Fiction

Lessons in Chemistry

1. Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus

  1. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
  2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
  3. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
  4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  5. Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
  6. It Ends with Us, by Colleen Hoover
  7. Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
  8. Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett
  9. None of This is True, by Lisa Jewell

Nonfiction

Spare

1. Spare, by Prince Harry

  1. I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
  2. The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  4. Atomic Habits, by James Clear
  5. The Wager, by David Grann
  6. The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel A Van der Kolk
  7. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry
  8. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
  9. How to Keep House While Drowning, by KC Davis

 

Mystery

Book Cover for Holly by Stephen King

1. Holly, by Stephen King

  1. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
  2. Wrong Place Wrong Time, by Gillian McAllister
  3. Dirty Thirty, by Janet Evanovich
  4. Resurrection Walk, by Michael Connelly
  5. The River We Remember, by William Kent Krueger
  6. The Secret, by Lee Child and Andrew Child
  7. Zero Days, by Ruth Ware
  8. Homecoming, by Kate Morton
  9. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides

Romance

Happy Place

1. Happy Place, by Emily Henry

  1. Yours Truly, by Abby Jimenez
  2. Verity, by Colleen Hoover
  3. Love, Theoretically, by Ali Hazelwood
  4. Icebreaker, by Hannah Grace
  5. Never Never, by Colleen Hoover
  6. Meet Me at the Lake, by Carley Fortune
  7. Things We Never Got Over, by Lucy Score
  8. Book Lovers, by Emily Henry
  9. Ugly Love, by Colleen Hoover

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Fourth Wing

1. Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros

  1. Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros
  2. A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas
  3. A Court of Mist and Fury, by Sarah J. Maas
  4. Babel, by R.F. Kuang
  5. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  6. A Court of Wings and Ruin, by Sarah J. Maas
  7. The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
  8. House of Earth and Blood, by Sarah J. Maas
  9. A Court of Silver Flames, by Sarah J. Maas

 

DVDs

Oppenheimer

1. Oppenheimer

  1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
  2. Barbie
  3. A Man Called Otto
  4. John Wick Chapter 4
  5. The Whale
  6. Yellowstone Seasoon 5
  7. Women Talking
  8. Mission: Impossible. Part One: Dead Reckoning
  9. Avatar: The Way of Water

Cookbooks

Baking yesteryear

1. Baking Yesteryear, by B. Dylan Hollis

  1. Love & Lemons: Simple Feel-Good Food, by Jeanine Donofrio
  2. Every Season is Soup Season, by Shelly Westerhausen
  3. Snacking Bakes, by Yossi Arefi
  4. The Clean Vegan Cookbook, by Jackie Akerberg
  5. 100 Morning Treats, Sarah Kieffer
  6. 50 Pies, 50 States, by Stacey Mei Yan Fong
  7. The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner
  8. The Cookie That Changed My Life, by Nancy Silverton
  9. Taste of Home: Copycat Favorites

Teen/YA Fiction

The Ballad of songbirds and snakes

1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins

  1. Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas
  2. Crown of Midnight, by Sarah J. Maas
  3. Heir of Fire, by Sarah J. Maas
  4. Divine Rivals, by Rebecca Ross
  5. Check & Mate, by Ali Hazelwood
  6. The Inheritance Games, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  7. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  8. The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han
  9. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan