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? Surely somewhere collects and collates sales information doesn’t it?
Well yes there is, but it is country specific and it can be difficult to find, but find it we did and here we are to share it with you.
We have decided to do a 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.
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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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.
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The Revenant (Film tie-in edition) – Michael Punke
When a scouting mission goes wrong and Hugh Glass is left for dead nothing could have prepared them for the strength his desire for revenge would give him.
UK
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The Emperor’s Revenge – Clive Cussler
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation’s accounts.
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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Marrying Winterborne – Lisa Kleypas
Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. Rhys is used to getting exactly what he wants and he wants shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, no matter what the cost to her.
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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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Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
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.
US
UK
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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
US
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Play Dead – Angela Marsons
Book 4 of the DI Kim Stone series sees Kim investigating a serial killer who has found the perfect place to dump his victims. Westerley research facility or in plain English; a body farm.
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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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Oh, The Places You’ll Go! – Dr. Seuss
With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Seuss primes his readers against all the little mishaps and misadventures that can befall even the best of us.
Buy Oh, The Places You’ll Go! US
Buy Oh, The Places You’ll Go! UK
US
UK
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According to Yes – Dawn French
Glenn Wilder-Bingham’s rules are:
Emotional displays – unacceptable.
Unruly behaviour – definitely not welcome.
Fun – no thanks.
It’s just a shame Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England hasn’t read them.
US
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All Summer Long – Dorothea Benton Frank
A story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more; promises made that might not be fulfilled and the fear of the future.
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Dictator – Robert Harris
Riveting and tumultuous, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic events in ancient history—the collapse of the Roman Republic and the subsequent civil war, the murder of Pompey, the assassination of Julius Caesar.
UK
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The Hidden Oracle – Rick Riordan
The first book in a new Greek Gods series by Rick Riordan sees Apollo punished by Zeus.
How do you punish an immortal?
By making him human.
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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End of Watch – Stephen King
Brady Hartsfield is confined to room 217 ofthe 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.
UK
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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.
Buy Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies US
Buy Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies UK
US
Well there you are, our first 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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