Top Ten Fiction Charts
Which books are selling at the moment? What is the hot title this week? Which books are trending, which books are fading, these are the things we as bibliophiles need to know, we want to know if we are keeping up with reader trends, or if we are literary trailblazers?
Here is our fourth instalment of our weekly top ten of the best selling novels from the UK and USA as these are charts we can access, 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.
UK
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After You – Jojo Moyes
Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar, or why the flat she’s owned for a year still doesn’t feel like home. Can her close-knit family forgive her for what she did 18 months ago and will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.
US
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Crisis of Character – Gary J Byrne
Not sure how this tops the US Fiction chart but here it is: Posted directly outside President Clinton’s Oval Office, Former Secret Service uniformed officer Gary Byrne reveals the most anticipated book of the 2016 election.
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
Dropping to number 2; 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.
UK
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The Games – James Patterson
Another of the James Patterson ‘Private’ collaboration novels sees Jack Morgan in Rio during the Olympic Games after uncovering terrifying evidence that someone has set in motion a catastrophic plan.
US
UK
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Get Even – Martina Cole
Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts, then Lenny is murdered, beaten to death. Twenty years passes by before Sharon discovers what really happened and she’s not about to let the perpetrator get off Scott free..
US
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First Comes Love – Emily Giffin
Two sisters who are polar opposites are brought together fifteen years after their brother’s tragic death, to find perhaps they aren’t too different and perhaps they need one another.
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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
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.
UK
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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.
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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Shadow Rider – Christine Feehan
What’s scarier than a Chicago crime family? A Chicago crime family that hides a deep dark- paranormal secret. The truth of the Ferraro family is much deeper, and much darker than anyone imagined.
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Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
Dropping three spots is the long awaited and much anticipated sequel to Harper Lee’s world renowned novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Reacquaint yourselves with Scout, Atticus and other much loved characters and their lives after Tom Robinson.
UK
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United as One – Pittacus Lore
Book seven of the Lorien Legacies sees the Mogadorian invasion almost victorious in their battle to overtake the Earth. The Garde are all that stand in their way..
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 BFG – Roald Dahl
Staying at number 7 and as with most books that are adapted into film, a resurgence in sales is seen. Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle.
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Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
If your husband was murdered
And you were a witness
How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam?
You thought you trusted him.
Now you can’t even trust yourself.
UK
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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?
US
UK
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Even Dogs in the Wild – Ian Rankin
A drop of 7 places for this latest Rebus novel brings back Ian Rankin’s greatest characters in a story exploring the darkest corners of our instincts and desires.
US
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End of Watch – Stephen King
Down 6: 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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Rogue Lawyer – John Grisham
Down 2; 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.
UK
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Foreign Agent – Brad Thor
Down 5: 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
And that’s week four of our 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 do another next week and see how they have changed. How many of this week’s top ten have you read?
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The only one on there I’ve read is “The Girl on the Train,” which I was surprised to see on this list at all, given how long it’s been out. Definitely a few others on here I want to read now, though! “Me Before You” has been on my TBR list for awhile, and “Shadow Rider” and “Fool Me Once” sound really good.