Top 10 Adult Fiction Books of the Last Five Years
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Which Adult Fiction Books Were The Best Sellers?
Thousands of adult fiction books were produced in the last five years, but only a select few became the most popular and best selling adult fiction books in the world.
Listed here you will discover some great pieces of literary work from these really talented authors.
In this modern fast paced world that we all now live in it is good to see that the enjoyment of reading is still firmly a part of our everyday activities.
Browse through the top 10 adult fiction books review and if there are any books that you have not read, but would like to, just click.
Then you can sit back in a comfortable chair with a full glass and do your own personal review of some wonderful literature.
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#10 Adult Fiction Book
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
By Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy)
Amazon Price: $10.80 (as of 02/23/2012)
This is a tale of a series of conspiracies and how they come to cloud the Swedish democracy. How did Lisbeth Salander become the abused young woman, and will the people and times trying to destroy her win? And, Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist, will he be able to expose through his words, the wrongs that have been done. Will he regain Lisbeth's confidence? Lisbeth Salander is in the Intensive Care Unit, she has been shot in the head. Her father is in a room down the hall, reportedly shot by Lisbeth. How did this come to be. Why are the Swedish Secret Service going in and out of his room? Why do we pick on those we do not understand? It is easier for us to believe those that are in power than to question the truth.
#9 Adult Fiction Book
Olive Kitteridge
By Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Amazon Price: $2.92 (as of 02/23/2012)
"Hell. We're always alone. Born alone. Die alone," says Olive Kitteridge, redoubtable seventh-grade math teacher in Crosby, Maine. Anyone who gets in Olive's way had better watch out, for she crashes unapologetically through life like an emotional storm trooper. She forces her husband, Henry, the town pharmacist, into tactical retreat; and she drives her beloved son, Christopher, across the country and into therapy. But appalling though Olive can be, Strout manages to make her deeply human and even sympathetic, as are all of the characters in this "novel in stories."
#8 Adult Fiction Book
The Host
By Stephenie Meyer
The Host: A Novel
Amazon Price: $4.00 (as of 02/23/2012)
In this tantalizing SF thriller, planet-hopping parasites are inserting their silvery centipede selves into human brains, curing cancer, eliminating war and turning Earth into paradise. But some people want Earth back, warts and all, especially Melanie Stryder, who refuses to surrender, even after being captured in Chicago and becoming a host for a soul called Wanderer. Melanie uses her surviving brain cells to persuade Wanderer to help search for her loved ones in the Arizona desert. When the pair find Melanie's brother and her boyfriend in a hidden rebel cell led by her uncle, Wanderer is at first hated. Once the rebels accept Wanderer, whom they dub Wanda, Wanda's whole perspective on humanity changes.
When Did Adult Fiction Writing Start?
Most people agree that serious adult fiction writing began in the 1830's with the literary work of Charles Dickens. Before that time the stories of writers were not being serialised, or printed and published in their entirety.Some writers would have a short story published in a journal, to try to get their name recognised.
In fact that is how Dickens first published his work, in individual stories, in the order that the events took place, with a cliffhanger at the end of every episode.
And his popularity grew with the many novels that followed. His writings are still so popular that almost none of his books have gone out of print.
Adult fiction books have come a long way since those early days and now there are thousands of adult fiction books released every year.
#7 Adult Fiction Book
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy)
Amazon Price: $5.77 (as of 02/23/2012)
This first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption.
#6 Adult Fiction Book
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 02/23/2012)
Set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to write about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers.
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You are half way through the top 10 list of best selling adult fiction books.So far you have discovered some really great novels, but the top 10 list now continues with adult fiction books that have been even more popular.
You will also find towards the bottom of the page the top 10 list of the 2008 best selling adult fiction books. Making a comparison of the two top 10 lists really makes interesting reading.
Three authors appear in both top 10 lists and two books have endured the test of time.
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#5 Adult Fiction Book
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Amazon Price: $3.86 (as of 02/23/2012)
This charming novel begins in 1946, when author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites articulate neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories. The letters jump from incident to incident-including the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society while Guernsey was under German occupation. Juliet's quips are so clever, the Guernsey inhabitants so enchanting and the small acts of heroism so vivid and moving. Juliet finds in the letters not just inspiration for her next work, but also for her life-as will readers.
#4 Adult Fiction Book
The Associate (Hardcover)
By John Grisham
The Associate (HARDCOVER)
Amazon Price: $2.19 (as of 02/23/2012)
The Associate Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want,even though it's a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
#3 Adult Fiction Book
The Time Traveler's Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Amazon Price: $2.19 (as of 02/23/2012)
On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and out of her life.
What Makes An Adult Fiction Book Successful?
Adult fiction books can cover a varied set of subject matter, but it is worthy of noting that this list of the top 10 adult fiction books contains novels that are historic, adventurous, mysterious and full of intrique.Maybe this is the formula for their success and why they became the best selling adult fiction books.
Ok, so now we are down to the last two books in the top 10 adult fiction books list.
Any guesses as to which books they are?
Enjoy your reading.
#2 Adult Fiction Book
The Shack
By William P. Young
The Shack (Special Hardcover Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 02/23/2012)
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
#1 Adult Fiction Book
The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)
Amazon Price: $2.45 (as of 02/23/2012)
The Lost Symbol begins with an ancient ritual, a shadowy enclave, and of course, a secret. Readers know they are in Dan Brown territory when, by the end of the first chapter, a secret within a secret is revealed. To tell too much would ruin the fun of reading this delicious thriller, so you will find no spoilers here. Suffice it to say that as with many series featuring a recurring character, there is a bit of a formula at work (one that fans will love). Again, brilliant Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself in a predicament that requires his vast knowledge of symbology and superior problem-solving skills to save the day.
Top 10 Adult Fiction Books of 2008
Book Titles Listed In Reverse Order 10 - 1
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Frozen Dreams
Frozen Dreams
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This is the compelling personal story of a young woman who is determined to finally make more of her life. Portland was where Celeste had made her home, but it was not the place that she had one day hoped to be. And now she was going to do something about it, no more hesitating and no more of her frozen dreams. Setting out to change her life she meets many along the way that try to confuse her, but she is not going to let anything stand in her way.
In Danger of Dying
In Danger of Dying
Amazon Price: (as of 02/23/2012)
The unexpected crash of a maximum security prison bus in front of Stamford Town bank allows the escape of three dangerous convicts who in desperation decide to take hostages and enter the bank where they set up an armed siege. Police Inspector Pat Abbott deploys a special team led by negotiator Scott Bradley to secure the hostage's safe release. But Scott has much more than just the convicts to watch out for in this action filled suspense thriller.
Living on the Lost Edge of Time
By James Chapman
Living on the Lost Edge of Time
Amazon Price: (as of 02/23/2012)
Jennifer is a romantic at heart and adores reading in the tranquil calm of the old house that is her home. But everything changes when her sleep is suddenly disturbed in the middle of the night. Rising to investigate Jennifer soon finds herself immersed in a dark and mysterious adventure. She has lived alone in the old house for the last three and a half years since her mother died and never before had felt there was any need to think she should be afraid. But Jennifer does experience real fear and in the depths of the darkness she discovers a love that is destined to change her life forever.
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vikksimmons
Nov 21, 2011 @ 2:04 am | delete
- I've found the interest in the Larsson books to be quite interesting. I discovered that group of mystery/thriller writers from Iceland, Finland and Sweden quite some time ago. The list is interesting and you can't argue with sales but a number of them haven't made it to my list yet.
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HartmanSteven
Oct 31, 2011 @ 10:08 am | delete
- I was not a fan of the Lost Symbol but there's a few good ones on there like The Help and Time Travelers Wife that I enjoyed and can see their impact. I wrote a lens on The Ten-Day Forecast. Not on here yet but I'd like to see it top the bestsellers list soon, I might be a little biased though.
Check out the lens though: http://www.squidoo.com/the-ten-day-forecast
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SaintFrantic
Oct 20, 2011 @ 8:46 am | delete
- Haven't read any of this books.Thanks for your lens.
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Leopold-Blatt
Sep 8, 2011 @ 1:36 pm | delete
- I read all the Stieg ones and I really liked The Time Traveler's Wife but your list provides me with new material to sample. Good lens, thank you,
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bames24
Aug 13, 2011 @ 11:06 pm | delete
- I am a fan of Grisham, Dan Brown and even Stephanie Meyer (yes I even have the Twilight Series books)... I have recently began to read more of Stieg Larsson... great list :)
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ellagis
Aug 2, 2011 @ 12:54 pm | delete
- I am a little puzzled about two writers you mentioned, that is Dan Brown and John Grisham... I have the feeling they receive some help by ghost-writers... but, of course, it´s my opinion, and it´s just a sensation!
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mooderino
Mar 24, 2011 @ 8:38 am | delete
- Not sure I understand what your counting, top ten of a particular year? Based on int'l sales? Interesting bunch of books for sure, but a little unclear on the parameters.
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splendidbaker
Oct 22, 2010 @ 6:34 pm | delete
- Glad to see Stieg Larsson is on this list! Loved the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the rest of the Millineum Trilogy. Great lens! Thanks for sharing.
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randomethoughts Oct 14, 2010 @ 8:35 pm | delete
- as for me The Time Traveler's Wife is my no. 1
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