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About Amazon Rising Stars

Over the course of the year we'll bring you twelve books from talented new authors. We will present them in groups of four, and ask you to help choose a winner from each group. We look at customer reviews to inform our decision, so review your favourite title to increase its chance of winning at the group stages. After all twelve titles have been featured we will announce an overall winner, at the end of the year.

Check back for regular updates, and remember--the book with the highest number of great customer reviews has the best chance of being crowned the overall winner.

Amazon Rising Stars 2012: And the Winner Is...

Tigers in Red Weather

Congratulations to Liza Klaussmann who is our Amazon Rising Star of the Year for 2012. Her novel Tigers in Red Weather, set at the end of World War II, is the story of a family unraveling, which garnered some incredible reviews from Amazon customers.

You can read more about why we loved Tigers in Red Weather, as well as find other great books that were published in 2012, in our feature on the Best Books of 2012.

Bestsellers

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Inferno
1. 120 days in the top 100
Inferno
›Dan Brown
Hardcover
£20.00 £9.00
The Fast Diet
2. 147 days in the top 100
The Fast Diet: The Secret of Intermittent Fasting - Lose…
Dr Michael Mosley …
Paperback
£7.99 £5.03
The Fast Diet Recipe Book
3. 64 days in the top 100
The Fast Diet Recipe Book: 150 Delicious, Calorie-controlled…
Mimi Spencer …
Paperback
£14.99 £8.00
Bring Up
4. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 32 days in the top 100
Bring Up the Bodies
›Hilary Mantel
Paperback
£9.99 £3.85
Gone Girl
5. Ranking has gone down in the past 24 hours 149 days in the top 100
Gone Girl
›Gillian Flynn
Paperback
£7.99 £3.85
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Bestsellers

Kindle Store : Books
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Inferno
1. 79 days in the top 100
Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)
›Dan Brown
Kindle Edition
£7.20
Watch Over
2. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 301 days in the top 100
Watch Over Me
›Daniela Sacerdoti
Kindle Edition
£0.30
The Great
3. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 502 days in the top 100
The Great Gatsby
›F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kindle Edition
£0.77
The Back
4. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 67 days in the top 100
The Back Road
›Rachel Abbott
Kindle Edition
£0.99
The Magpies
5. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 57 days in the top 100
The Magpies: A Psychological Thriller
›Mark Edwards
Kindle Edition
£0.99
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Rising Star Makes Orange Prize Shortlist

The Very Thought of You
Congratulations to Rosie Alison for making the shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. Rosie was one of Amazon's Rising Stars in 2009 for her debut novel The Very Thought of You. The Orange prize was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language.

›More about the Orange Prize

Amazon Rising Stars: Round I Winner

Congratulations Gavin Extence--winner of Amazon Rising Stars Round I 2013, with this novel, The Universe Versus Alex Woods.

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      2012 Amazon Rising Stars

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      Previously Featured in Amazon Rising Stars

      Into the Darkest Corner
      ›Elizabeth Haynes
      (972 customer reviews)
      Kindle Edition: £3.29
      Paperback: £5.59
      The Night Circus
      ›Erin Morgenstern
      (495 customer reviews)
      Kindle Edition: £3.47
      Hardcover: £9.15
      Before I Go To Sleep
      ›S. J. Watson
      (1,973 customer reviews)
      Kindle Edition: £3.67
      Paperback: £3.86
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