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
- Exiles* by Jane Harper
- The night shift* by Alex Finlay
- The bullet the missed* by Richard Osman
- The Thursday Murder Club* by Richard Osman
- The soulmate* by Sally Hepworth
- The dictionary of lost words* by Pip Williams
- Cold enough for snow* by Jessica Au
- Lessons in chemistry* by Bonnie Garmus
- Lessons* by Ian McEwan
- Limberlost* by Robbie Arnott
- The bookbinder of Jericho* by Pip Williams
- Apples never fall* by Liane Moriarty
- The crossing by Cormac McCarthy
- The survivors* by Jane Harper
- The man who died twice* by Richard Osman
- Lucy by the sea* by Elizabeth Strout
- The marriage portrait* by Maggie O'Farrell
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow* by Gabrielle Zevin
- It ends with us* by Colleen Hoover
- The tilt* by Chris Hammer
- The younger wife* by Sally Hepworth
- No plan B* by Lee Child
- The lost man* by Jane Harper
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- The seven moons of Maali Almeida* by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Where the crawdads sing* by Delia Owens
- Beautiful world where are you* by Sally Rooney
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Shrines of gaiety* by Kate Atkinson
- It starts with us* by Colleen Hoover
- The rising tide* by Ann Cleeves
- Still life* by Sarah Winman
- Malibu rising* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Desert star* by Michael Connelly
- The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig
- Book lovers* by Emily Henry
- The murder rule* by Dervla McTiernan
- Devotion* by Hannah Kent
- The good sister* by Hepworth, Sally
- Clarke* by Holly Throsby
- Homecoming* by Kate Morton
- Yellowface* by R. F. Kuang
- Return to Valetto* by Dominic Smith
- Cloud cuckoo land* by Anthony Doerr
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Small things like these* by Claire Keegan
- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- A gentleman in Moscow* by Amor Towles
- The ink black heart by Robert Galbraith
- A heart full of headstones* by Ian Rankin
- Day's end* by Garry Disher
- Lying beside you* by Michael Robotham
- Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
- Treasure & dirt* by Chris Hammer
- The maid* by Nita Prose
- Dead tide* by Fiona McIntosh
- Love & virtue* by Diana Reid
- Mad honey* by Jodi Picoult
- The orphans* by Fiona McIntosh
- Klara and the sun* by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The way it is now* by Garry Disher
- All the broken places* by John Boyne
- Bodies of light* by Jennifer Down
- Better off dead* by Lee Child
- The 6:20 man* by David Baldacci
- After story* by Larissa Behrendt
- Carrie Soto is back* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Seeing other people* by Diana Reid
- Next in line by Jeffrey Archer
- The spy's wife* by Fiona McIntosh
- Normal people* by Sally Rooney
- Nineteen eighty-four* by George Orwell
- The long call* by Ann Cleeves
- Birnam Wood* by Eleanor Catton
- Everyone in my family has killed someone* by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Labyrinth* by Amanda Lohrey
- Best of friends* by Kamila Shamsie
- The darkest evening* by Ann Cleeves
- The good turn* by Dervla McTiernan
- Long shadows* by David Baldacci
- Old God's time* by Sebastian Barry
- Wish you were here by Jodi Picoult
- Dirt town* by Hayley Scrivenor
- Our missing hearts by Celeste Ng
- The promise* by Damon Galgut
- Honeybee* by Craig Silvey
- Portrait of an unknown woman* by Daniel Silva
- The boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
- The judge's list by John Grisham
- Tuesday evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance* by Kate Solly
- The Lincoln Highway* by Amor Towles
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
- The magician* by Colm Tóibín
- Before you knew my name* by Jacqueline Bublitz
- Daisy Jones & The Six* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- French braid* by Anne Tyler
- One hundred days* by Alice Pung
- A room made of leaves* by Kate Grenville
- Give unto others* by Donna Leon
- Trespasses* by Louise Kennedy
