Boroondara Hottest 100 adult fiction titles 2023

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