Top Ten Fiction Charts
Here we bring you the seventh instalment 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.
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
Back up to number 1: 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.
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The Girl on the Train – Paula Howkins
Returning to top spot: 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.
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After You – Jojo Moyes
Dropping one place this week: 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.
UK
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The Black Widow – Daniel Silva
Down one place; 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.
US
UK
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Murder House – James Patterson
Moving up a place 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.
US
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After You – Jojo Moyes
Jumping up 6 spots: 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
Jumping 6 places to number 4; Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth – and the realisation that ignorance can kill us.
UK
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Bossman – Vi Keeland
Oooh la la! New in at number 4 is an erotic tale of a chance meeting, a wrong impression and the shock of finding out that the gorgeous man who behaved so bizarrely when he gate crashed your bad date was about to become your boss!
US
UK
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The Guilty – David Baldacci
A new entry this week is the latest in the Will Robie series. With his estranged father arrested for murder Robie returns to his home town after 20 years to solve the murder and free his dad.
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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Depraved Heart – Patricia Cornwell
A new entry is medical examiner Kay Scarpetta’s 23rd thriller. Someone is out to get everyone she loves and it’s down to Scarpetta to stop them.
UK
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It Gets Worse – Shane Dawson
New in at number 6 Shane Dawson shares another uproariously funny essay collection, chronicling a mix of real life moments both extraordinary and mortifying, yet always full of heart.
US
UK
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Get Even – Martina Cole
Dropping to number 7; 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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Obsession – Dorothea Benton Frank
Another new entry is the second of the Steel Brother’s Saga and although Jade Roberts is no longer welcome in Talon Steel’s home, she is still in love with him and will do anything to be near him.
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Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
Dropping 3 places is 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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Night and Day – Iris Johansen
Eve Duncan and Cara Delaney are in Scotland having risked everything to escape Cara’s enemies, but now those enemies have found them adn have turned their attention to Eve.
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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The Sister – Louise Jensen
Dropping two places; 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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Where my Heart used to Beat – Sebastian Faulks
Dropping to number 10 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
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Hillary’s America – Dinesh D’Souza
America’s current political climate sees people interested in this book on the Secret History of the Democratic Party book breaking into the top ten chart for the United States.
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And that’s week seven of our combined US/UK top ten fiction chart; there are a lot of new entries and a lot of titles in that list which are completely new to me with 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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