Top Ten Fiction Charts
Which books are selling at the moment? What is the hot title this week? These are the things we as bibliophiles need to know, are we keeping up with reader trends? Have we missed a release that is about to become the next Harry Potter? The next Game of Thrones? The next (gulp) Fifty Shades? Here at For Reading Addicts we heard your call and we answered it.
Here is our second weekly top ten of the best selling novels from the UK and USA as these are charts we can access and you will be able to see what is selling, where the UK and the US differ, and of course where we are the same. Not forgetting of course, adding a title or two to your TBR lists.
Last week’s chart is here if you fancy seeing what was hot a week ago.
UK
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
A woman’s daily train commute becomes something much more when she glimpses something out of the ordinary and decides she must know the outcome.
US
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Bay of Sighs – Nora Roberts
Join mermaid Annika, brave adventurer Sawyer, and their four friends as they continue their quest, with this second book of The Guardians Trilogy
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Even Dogs in the Wild – Ian Rankin
This latest Rebus novel brings back Ian Rankin’s greatest characters in a story exploring the darkest corners of our instincts and desires.
UK
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Foreign Agent – Brad Thor
Terrorism in Europe has spun out of control. The United States has decided on a dramatic response. Now, the CIA needs a very special kind of operative – meet the perfect candidate Scot Harvath.
US
UK
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Me Before You (Film Tie In) – Jojo Moyes
The Film Tie in of Jojo Moyes’ hugely popular novel Me Before You. A beautiful but unlikely love story set in England when a young woman’s life is changed when she helps to care for a quadriplegic 35 year old.
US
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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
We’re still buying this beautiful but unlikely love story set in England when a young woman’s life is changed when she helps to care for a quadriplegic 35 year old.
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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
And right behind the Movie Tie In, the original version of the novel that is taking theatres by storm.
UK
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Here’s to Us – Elin Hilderbrand
Struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals, celebrity chef Deacon Rowe commits suicide leaving first wife Laurel Rowe together together his family, his ex wives and try to say goodbye properly.
US
UK
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Rogue Lawyer – John Grisham
Rudd believes everyone accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial – even if he has to cheat to get one. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of the 21-year-old daughter of the assistant chief of police. When he’s asked represent Swanger, he’s told a terrible secret- one that threatens everything Sebastian holds dear.
US
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End of Watch – Stephen King
Brady Hartsfield is confined to room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic,Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney are still running Finders Keepers Detective Agency but in this final instalment of King’s latest trilogy it seems they are destined to meet one last time.
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Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
The long awaited and much anticipated sequel to Harper Lee’s world renowned novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
UK
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Duty and Honor – Grant Blackwood
Grant Blackwood continues writing the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan jr novels with this novel seeing Ryan dragged away from some R&R across Europe and back into the fray.
US
UK
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Tennison – Lynda La Plante
In 1973 Jane Tennison is placed on probationary exercise in Hackney where criminality thrives. We share her struggle to cope in a male-dominated, chauvinistic environment and then comes her involvement in her first murder case.
US
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Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies – David Fisher
Through the fascinating tales of the first Americans, Legends and Lies reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the country into a warzone; an irresistible, adventure packed journey back into one of the most storied moments of America’s nation’s rich history.
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The Lake House – Kate Morton
A missing child, an abandoned house and an unsolved mystery; 70 years has passed since Alice Evadene’s family suffered the tragedy of the boy’s disappearance and now she is an author, but her past is about to be brought back to her present and there’s no escape.
UK
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Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow pens this landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanised, inspired, scandalised, and shaped the newborn nation of America.
US
UK
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The Swan Maid – Dilly Court
Condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, chambermaid Lottie’s life takes a surprising turn when an injured young soldier is brought into The Swan.
US
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The Girls – Emma Cline
Be careful what you wish for, it may come true. it’s the summer of ’69 and Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In their cheap jewellery and filthy clothes are The Girls the kind of people you want to be noticed by?
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The Secrets of Happiness – Lucy Diamond
Rachel and Becca aren’t real sisters, they’re step sister and they live lives of polar opposites. But when Rachel doesn’t come home and Becca is called in to help it quickly becomes clear that perhaps they’re not so different and maybe Rachel isn’t living the dream.
Buy The Secrets of Happiness US
Buy The Secrets of Happiness UK
UK
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Cross Kill – David Fisher
Alex Cross is back- Gary Soneji has been dead for over a decade yet today Cross’ partner was killed by him, in front of Cross’ eyes. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
US
That’s it for week number two of the combined US/UK top ten fiction chart, there are an awful lot of titles in that list which are completely new to me and several that have gone straight on my TBR list.
We will be back next week to see how they have changed. How many of this week’s top ten have you read?
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