Boroondara hottest 100 adult fiction titles 2019

You have read your way through another year Boroondara!

Our community loves Australian literary fiction, followed closely by a good crime thriller and is always willing to try new authors. Here are the adult fiction books you borrowed the most last year with a grand total of 27,120 loans, smashing last year's total of 22,886.   

Liane Moriarty continues to be one of your favourite authors with Nine perfect strangers* topping the list at 1,361 loans, and fellow Australian author, Jane Harper also performing very well. Debut author Trent Dalton has captivated readers with Boy swallows universe and Joanna Nell has delighted with her first novel, The single ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village. 

Perennial favourite, Lee Child was the most read author once again with 7 books on the list whilst fellow crime writers, John Grisham and Michael Connelly tied with four titles each. The testaments, Margaret Atwood's long awaited sequel to The handmaid's tale* was very popular, as was The children act* by Ian McEwan which always rates well. 

So settle into your summer reading with the books that your friends and neighbours have loved.

Boroondara Hottest 100 adult fiction titles of 2019

• Nine perfect strangers* by Liane Moriarty
• The lost man *by Jane Harper
• Bridge of Clay *by Markus Zusak 
• The woman in the window *by A. J. Finn
• Normal people *by Sally Rooney
• The nowhere child *by Christian White
• Boy swallows universe *by Trent Dalton
• The Rosie result *by Graeme Simsion
• Past tense *by Lee Child
• Milkman *by Anna Burns
• The Rúin *by Dervla McTiernan
• Dark sacred night *by Michael Connelly
• The clockmaker's daughter *by Kate Morton
• Force of nature* by Jane Harper
• Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine *by Gail Honeyman
• The other wife by Michael Robotham
• The tattooist of Auschwitz* by Heather Morris
• Truly madly guilty *by Liane Moriarty
• The scholar * by Dervla McTiernan
• The shepherd's hut *by Tim Winton
• Transcription *by Kate Atkinson
• A gentleman in Moscow *by Amor Towles
• Lethal white by Robert Galbraith
• The dry* by Jane Harper
• All the light we cannot see: a novel* by Anthony Doerr
• The midnight line *by Lee Child
• Night school *by Lee Child
• Scrublands *by Chris Hammer
• Warlight *by Michael Ondaatje
• Unsheltered *by Barbara Kingsolver
• Into the water* by Paula Hawkins
• The handmaid's tale* by Margaret Atwood
• Home fire *by Kamila Shamsie
• The rip by Mark Brandi
• Wimmera by Mark Brandi
• In a house of lies by Ian Rankin
• Crazy rich Asians *by Kevin Kwan
• Careless love by Peter Robinson
• Less: a novel by Andrew Sean Greer
• The pearl thief *by Fiona McIntosh
• A spark of light *by Jodi Picoult
• The other woman *by Daniel Silva
• The year of the farmer *by Rosalie Ham
• Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Long road to mercy*by David Baldacci
• The reckoning by John Grisham
• The wrong side of goodbye*by Michael Connelly
• The late show *by Michael Connelly
• Two steps forward *by Graeme Simsion
• Big little lies *by Liane Moriarty
• The overstory *by Richard Powers
• Still me* by Jojo Moyes
• Echo burning* by Lee Child
• The children act* by Ian McEwan
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
• The life to come* by Michelle De Kretser
• The silent patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Rosie project* by Graeme Simsion
• The mother-in-law* by Sally Hepworth
• Kingdom of the blind by Louise Penny
• The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
• The choke* by Sofie Laguna
• The good people* by Hannah Kent
• No middle name: the complete collected short stories *by Lee Child
• Man out of time by Stephanie Bishop
• The secrets she keeps by Michael Robotham
• Nineteen eighty-four* by George Orwell
• Two kinds of truth* by Michael Connelly
• The lost flowers of Alice Hart *by Holly Ringland
• The museum of modern love* by Heather Rose
• The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society *by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The catcher in the rye * by J. D. Salinger
• Ladies in black *by Madeleine St. John
• The book thief *by Markus Zusak
• Heads you win *by Jeffrey Archer
• The course of love* by Alain De Botton
• The single ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
• Cold earth *by Ann Cleeves
• The fragments *by Toni Jordan
• The temptation of forgiveness *by Donna Leon
• Camino Island by John Grisham
• City of girls *by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The redeemer *by Jo Nesbø
• The Wych Elm *by Tana French
• 61 hours *by Lee Child
• A month of Sundays* by Liz Byrski
• My brilliant friend* by Elena Ferrante
• Worth dying for * by Lee Child
• The testaments *by Margaret Atwood
• The break * y Marian Keyes
• Career of evil by Robert Galbraith
• Paris echo *by Sebastian Faulks
• The sentence is death *by Horowitz
• Circe *by Madeline Miller
• The whistler by John Grisham
• The colours of all the cattle by Alexander McCall
• Conversations with friends *by Sally Rooney
• Unto us a son is given *by Donna Leon
• Clock dance *by Anne Tyler
• City of friends* by Joanna Trollope

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