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 week six of our 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
Still at no 1 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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The Black Widow – Daniel Silva
New in at number 1, people have obviously been waiting for the 16th tale of Gabriel Allon who is poised to become the chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service except, on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation.
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
Staying steady at 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 Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
A return 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.
US
UK
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Get Even – Martina Cole
Staying at number three, 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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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
Dropping 2 places 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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Murder House – James Patterson
Popping back into the top ten and writing alongside David Ellis, Patterson brings us the story of No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multimillion-dollar beachfront house in the Hamptons, whose beautiful exterior hides a horrific past.
UK
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The Land of Stories – Chris Colfer
New this week is the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, where Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man’s literary army is inside his own short stories.
US
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
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First Comes Love – Emily Giffin
Back up 1 place: 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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Where my Heart used to Beat – Sebastian Faulks
Dropping to number 6 Robert Hendricks is an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, whilst at a guest house he is forced to face his past, and his host seems to know far too much.
Buy Where my Heart used to Beat US
Buy Where my Heart used to Beat UK
UK
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Night – Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald and this is his harrowing account of the atrocities he saw and suffered.
US
UK
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Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
Dropping back 3 places; 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.
US
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The Sister – Louise Jensen
A new entry, and haunted by her best friend’s last words, Grace opens an old memory box of Charlie’s. It soon becomes clear that there was a lot she didn’t know about her best friend.
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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.
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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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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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.
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Coffin Road – Peter May
New this week and in last spot Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth – and the realisation that ignorance can kill us.
UK
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The Nazi Officer’s Wife – Edith Hahn Beer
The amazing story of a young Jewish woman’s survival in Nazi controlled Austria, her marriage to a Nazi officer and her friendships that flourished despite the horror.
Buy The Nazi Officer’s Wife US
Buy The Nazi Officer’s Wife UK
US
And that’s week six 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. It is also very interesting to see how many dip in and out of the top ten as the weeks go by.
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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