Hottest 100 adult fiction books in 2017

We love seeing what our community borrows from the library and each year we gather the top 100 most borrowed adult fiction titles to share.

Once again this year we saw a huge interest in Australian literature with titles such as The good people by Hannah Kent, who we were proud to have speak at Camberwell Library during the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, and The natural way of things by acclaimed Stella Prize winning author, Charlotte Wood.

You also love a good crime novel such as The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins and Jane Harper’s The dry.

George Orwell’s Nineteen eighty-four is an enduring classic favourite and titles such as The book thief by Markus Zusak and Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey continue to be popular every year.

The author whose books were most borrowed in 2017 was Ann Cleeves.

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Boroondara Library Service's 100 most borrowed adult fiction books in 2017

1. Truly madly guilty* by Liane Moriarty
2. The good people* by Hannah Kent
3. The girl on the train* by Paula Hawkins
4. Night school by Lee Child
5. The wrong side of goodbye by Michael Connelly
6. The dry* by Jane Harper
7. All the light we cannot see: a novel* by Anthony Doerr
8. The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
9. Burial rites* by Hannah Kent
10. Big little lies by Liane Moriarty
11. My brilliant friend* by Elena Ferrante
12. Go set a watchman* by Harper Lee
13. The light between oceans* by M. L. Stedman
14. Into the water* by Paula Hawkins
15. The course of love* by Alain De Botton
16. Our souls at night* by Kent Haruf
17. The sellout* by Paul Beatty
18. The secret chord by Geraldine Brooks
19. Personal by Lee Child
20. A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
21. Make me by Lee Child
22. The little Paris bookshop by Nina George
23. The natural way of things* by Charlotte Wood
24. Nutshell by Ian McEwan
25. Cometh the hour by Jeffrey Archer
26. Commonwealth* by Ann Patchett
27. The whistler by John Grisham
28. This was a man by Jeffrey Archer
29. Rather be the devil by Ian Rankin
30. The Rosie project* by Graeme Simsion
31. Jasper Jones* by Craig Silvey
32. The burning room* by Michael Connelly
33. The children act* by Ian McEwan
34. The crossing* by Michael Connelly
35. The Rosie effect* by Graeme Simsion
36. The book thief by Markus Zusak
37. The cuckoo's calling by Robert Galbraith
38. Rogue lawyer by John Grisham
39. City of friends* by Joanna Trollope
40. Die trying* by Lee Child
41. The narrow road to the deep north* by Richard Flanagan
42. The best of Adam Sharp* by Graeme Simsion
43. An isolated incident* by Emily Maguire
44. After you* by Jojo Moyes
45. The black widow by Daniel Silva
46. Me before you by Jojo Moyes
47. Small great things* by Jodi Picoult
48. Silent voices by Ann Cleeves
49. When the music's over by Peter Robinson
50. Cold earth by Ann Cleeves
51. The husband's secret by Liane Moriarty
52. All that I am* by Anna Funder
53. Black rock white city by A. S. Patric
54. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
55. Career of evil by Robert Galbraith
56. Music and freedom* by Zoee Morrison
57. Persuader* by Lee Child
58. Gone girl by Gillian Flynn
59. What Alice forgot by Liane Moriarty
60. The eye of the sheep* by Sofie Laguna
61. The hypnotist's love story by Liane Moriarty
62. The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
63. 61 hours* by Lee Child
64. The dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
65. The museum of modern love* by Heather Rose
66. Burial of ghosts by Ann Cleeves
67. Telling tales by Ann Cleeves
68. The story of a new name* by Elena Ferrante
69. The strays by Emily Bitto
70. Theodore Boone: the scandal by John Grisham
71. Nineteen eighty-four* by George Orwell
72. Even dogs in the wild by Ian Rankin
73. Inferno by Dan Brown
74. The gods of guilt* by Michael Connelly
75. Before the fall by Noah Hawley
76. Swing time by Zadie Smith
77. Home* by Harlan Coben
78. Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
79. The one plus one* by Jojo Moyes
80. We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
81. The lake house* by Kate Morton
82. My name is Lucy Barton: a novel* by Elizabeth Strout
83. Mightier than the sword by Jeffrey Archer
84. The guilty by David Baldacci
85. Hidden depths by Ann Cleeves
86. My Italian bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
87. The heart goes last* by Margaret Atwood
88. Between a wolf and a dog* by Georgia Blain
89. No man's land by David Baldacci
90. Signal loss*  by Garry Disher
91. Force of nature* by Jane Harper
92. Conclave by Robert Harris
93. Tell the truth, shame the devil* by Melina Marchetta
94. The one who got away* by Caroline Overington
95. Crimson lake* by Candice Fox
96. The silkworm by Robert Galbraith 
97. The girl before by J. P. Delaney
98. The moth catcher by Ann Cleeves
99. The chocolate tin by Fiona McIntosh
100. The hard way by Lee Child