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Boroondara Hottest 100 adult fiction 2023

It is that time of year again Boroondara! Here are the Hottest 100 adult fiction titles from our collection in 2023.  

Jane Harper is once again your favourite author coming in at number one for the third time. Jane has had books featured in this list 12 times and all-time loans on Jane Harper’s books and their adaptations now exceed 14,000! The exact number being 10,398 loans on physical items and 3837 digital loans at the time of writing. We are delighted that a female Australian author is so popular with our borrowers.  

Taylor Jenkins Reid is your most read author with four titles, all published within the past 5 years. Lessons in chemistry by debut author Bonnie Garmus has also been a huge success.

Crime and mystery series have been very popular this year. New star, Richard Osman has 3 titles in the top 20, with favourites Ann Cleeves, Chris Hammer, Fiona McIntosh, Garry Disher and Dervla McTiernan also keeping you on the edge of your seats.  

As always 1984 by George Orwell is there for the classics!

You can find many titles on this list in our Most Wanted collection or Book Group Kits.   

Boroondara Hottest 100 Adult fiction titles 2023

  1. Exiles* by Jane Harper
  2. The bullet that missed* by Richard Osman 
  3. The Thursday Murder Club* by Richard Osman
  4. The soulmate* by Sally Hepworth
  5. The dictionary of lost words* by Pip Williams
  6. Cold enough for snow* by Jessica Au
  7. Lessons in chemistry* by Bonnie Garmus
  8. Lessons* by Ian McEwan
  9. Limberlost* by Robbie Arnott
  10. The bookbinder of Jericho* by Pip Williams
  11. Apples never fall* by Liane Moriarty
  12. The crossing by Cormac McCarthy 
  13. The survivors* by Jane Harper
  14. The man who died twice* by Richard Osman
  15. Lucy by the sea* by Elizabeth Strout
  16. The marriage portrait* by Maggie O'Farrell
  17. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow* by Gabrielle Zevin
  18. It ends with us* by Colleen Hoover
  19. The tilt* by Chris Hammer
  20. The younger wife* by Sally Hepworth
  21. No plan B* by Lee Child
  22. The lost man* by Jane Harper
  23. Horse by  Geraldine Brooks
  24. The seven moons of Maali Almeida* by Shehan Karunatilaka
  25. Where the crawdads sing* by Delia Owens
  26. Beautiful world where are you* by Sally Rooney
  27. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 
  28. Shrines of gaiety* by Kate Atkinson
  29. It starts with us* by Colleen Hoover
  30. The rising tide* by Ann Cleeves
  31. Still life* by Sarah Winman
  32. Malibu rising* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  33. Desert star* by Michael Connelly
  34. The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig
  35. Book lovers* by Emily Henry
  36. The murder rule* by Dervla McTiernan
  37. Devotion* by Hannah Kent
  38. The good sister* by Hepworth, Sally
  39. Clarke* by Holly Throsby
  40. Homecoming* by Kate Morton
  41. Yellowface* by R. F. Kuang
  42. Return to Valetto* by Dominic Smith
  43. Cloud cuckoo land* by Anthony Doerr
  44. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  45. Small things like these* by Claire Keegan
  46. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  47. A gentleman in Moscow* by Amor Towles
  48. The ink black heart by Robert Galbraith
  49. A heart full of headstones* by Ian Rankin
  50. Day's end* by Garry Disher
  51. Lying beside you* by Michael Robotham
  52. Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
  53. Treasure & dirt* by Chris Hammer 
  54. The maid* by Nita Prose
  55. Dead tide* by Fiona McIntosh 
  56. Love & virtue* by Diana Reid
  57. Mad honey* by Jodi Picoult
  58. The orphans* by Fiona McIntosh
  59. Klara and the sun* by Kazuo Ishiguro
  60. The way it is now* by Garry Disher
  61. All the broken places* by John Boyne
  62. Bodies of light* by Jennifer Down
  63. Better off dead* by Lee Child  
  64. The 6:20 man* by David Baldacci
  65. After story* by Larissa Behrendt
  66. Carrie Soto is back* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  67. Seeing other people* by Diana Reid
  68. Next in line by Jeffrey Archer  
  69. The spy's wife* by Fiona McIntosh  
  70. Normal people* by Sally Rooney
  71. Nineteen eighty-four* by George Orwell
  72. The long call* by Ann Cleeves
  73. Birnam Wood* by Eleanor Catton
  74. Everyone in my family has killed someone* by Benjamin Stevenson
  75. The Labyrinth* by Amanda Lohrey
  76. Best of friends* by Kamila Shamsie
  77. The darkest evening* by Ann Cleeves
  78. The good turn* by Dervla McTiernan
  79. Long shadows* by David Baldacci  
  80. Old God's time* by Sebastian Barry
  81. Wish you were here by Jodi Picoult
  82. Dirt town* by Hayley Scrivenor
  83. Our missing hearts by Celeste Ng
  84. The promise* by Damon Galgut 
  85. Honeybee* by Craig Silvey
  86. Portrait of an unknown woman* by Daniel Silva
  87. The boys from Biloxi by John Grisham  
  88. The judge's list by John Grisham
  89. Tuesday evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance* by Kate Solly
  90. The Lincoln Highway* by Amor Towles
  91. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
  92. The magician* by Colm Tóibín
  93. Before you knew my name* by Jacqueline Bublitz
  94. Daisy Jones & The Six* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  95. French braid* by Anne Tyler
  96. One hundred days* by Alice Pung
  97. A room made of leaves* by Kate Grenville
  98. Give unto others* by Donna Leon 
  99. Trespasses* by Louise Kennedy
  100. Someone else's shoes by Jojo Moyes

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