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 five 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
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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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
Back to the top spot again with 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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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
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 Trial – James Patterson
James Patterson and his co author army are a new entry with this their latest installment of the hugely successful The Women’s Murder Club.
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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Magic – Danielle Steel
Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive for a lavish dinner set outside a famous landmark in the city of Paris, dressed in white a group of friends are collected together, a great change ahead of them.
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Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
Up 4 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.
UK
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Night – Elie Wiesel
The sad news of the death Elie Wiesel who was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald sees this his harrowing account of the atrocities he saw and suffered as a new entry into the charts at number 4.
US
UK
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Where my Heart used to Beat – Sebastian Faulks
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
US
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Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
Back in the top ten: After being unexpectedly offered a spare seat on the Bateman family’s private jet, artist Scott Burroughs finds himself and the Bateman’s young son as the only survivors when the plane crashes
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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.
UK
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First Comes Love – Emily Giffin
Down 3 places: 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.
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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Crisis of Character – Gary J Byrne
Dropping 6; 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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Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
Down two 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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Hitched – Kendall Ryan
A hilarious and lust-filled tale about a man determined to win over the one woman who wants nothing to do with him; the woman who plays the role of his wife.
US
UK
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Even Dogs in the Wild – Ian Rankin
Staying steady in 9th places is 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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The Games – James Patterson
Down 7; 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.
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The Night Book – Richard Madeley
The summer of 1976 was unprecedented in the UK’s living memory. Days of blazing sunshine bled into weeks and months. People flock to swim in the warm waters of the Lake District, but then the drownings begin.
UK
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The BFG – Roald Dahl
Dropping three places but still enjoying a resurgence due the film release is the BFG. 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.
US
And that’s week five 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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