New Bluey debuts in top spot
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
A new Bluey title—Bluey: Big Backyard—has debuted at number one, ending the four-week streak of Bluey: Easter Fun!, which was bumped down to second spot. There were two other new...
Bestsellers: Fiction proves popular in pandemic
Monday, 6 April 2020
Bluey continues her four-week run in the number one spot with Bluey: Easter Fun!, but adult fiction dominates this week's charts. Marian Keyes' romantic comedy Grown Ups has moved up...
Bestsellers: Australians retreat into fiction
Monday, 30 March 2020
Bluey: Easter Fun! is spending its third consecutive week at the top of the bestseller chart, while Bluey: Bob Bilby has moved up to second, swapping places with The Mirror...
Bestsellers: ‘The Mirror and the Light’ ascends the chart
Monday, 23 March 2020
Bluey's new Easter book (Bluey: Easter Fun!) is spending its second consecutive week at the top of the bestsellers chart, followed by Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light at number...
Bestsellers: New Bluey Easter books round up brand new top five
Monday, 16 March 2020
After debuting in the top spot, Dervla McTiernan's The Good Turn has dropped down to sixth spot in this week's bestsellers chart, with a whopping five new titles occupying the...
Bestsellers: McTiernan at number one
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Perth-based author Dervla McTiernan’s third Cormac Reilly novel (The Good Turn, HarperCollins) has flown to the top of the bestseller charts in its first week of publication, pushing Marian Keyes’...
Latest ‘Treehouse’ tops 2019 Australian children’s charts
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
The 117-Storey Treehouse, the ninth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series, was the bestselling Australian children’s book in 2019, with 213,102 copies sold. It managed to hold...
Bestsellers: Ninja Kid fights its way into top 10
Monday, 2 March 2020
Grown Ups, the latest novel from Irish author Marian Keyes, is spending its third consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, which shows only minor changes from...
Bestsellers: ‘Witcher’ casts spell on charts
Monday, 24 February 2020
The top three titles in this week's top 10 bestsellers chart are all spending their second consecutive week in their respective positions. Dropping out of this week's chart is Jeanine...
Bestsellers: Keyes’ ‘Grown Ups’ reaches number one in five countries
Monday, 17 February 2020
The Australian bestsellers chart has a new number one this week: Irish author Marian Keyes' first novel since 2017, Grown Ups—which also reached the top fiction spot in the UK,...
2019 Australian bestsellers: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s 2016 guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third year running...
Bestsellers: Dark Emu bolts to number one
Monday, 10 February 2020
After five consecutive weeks in the top spot on the bestsellers chart, Bluey has been knocked to number two (Time to Play!, Puffin) and replaced by Bruce Pascoe's perennial bestseller...
Bestsellers: ‘Not a Diet Book’ makes huge debut
Monday, 3 February 2020
Bluey continues her chart-topping run on the Australian bestsellers chart, with Bluey: Time to Play! (Puffin) sitting at number one for the fourth consecutive week. Debuting at number two is Not...
Bestsellers: ‘Dark Emu’ jumps to third place
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu (Magabala) has jumped from eighth place to third in this week's top 10 bestseller charts, amid a smear campaign against Pascoe that was ultimately dismissed by...
Bestsellers: ‘Crawdads’ swims into Australian top 10
Monday, 20 January 2020
The Australian top 10 bestsellers chart for the second week of 2020 shows little change from the previous week's, with Bluey: Time to Play! (Puffin) spending its second consecutive week...
Bestsellers: Bluey sticker book number one in the new year
Monday, 13 January 2020
With Christmas over for another year, the number one book on the Australian bestseller chart in the first week of 2020 is sticker activity book Bluey: Time to Play! (Puffin)....
Bestsellers: Bluey bounds back to number one
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
After spending two weeks at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, Wrecking Ball, the 14th 'Wimpy Kid' book (Jeff Kinney, Puffin), has slipped to second spot, replaced by previous...
Bestsellers: New James Patterson debuts at number six
Monday, 2 December 2019
The 14th 'Wimpy Kid' book, Wrecking Ball (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is spending its second consecutive week at number one the Australian bestseller chart, followed by the three Bluey TV tie-in books,...
Bestsellers: Wimpy Kid knocks Bluey out of number one spot
Monday, 25 November 2019
After spending one week in the top spot on the Australian bestsellers chart, Bluey: The Beach (Puffin) has slipped to second place, replaced at number one by the 14th 'Wimpy Kid'...
October bestsellers: ‘Khaki Town’ and ‘488 Rules for Life’ top Australian charts
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
The Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for October have two new chart-toppers: Judy Nunn’s WWII novel Khaki Town, set in Queensland on the brink of Japanese invasion, and comedian Kitty...
Bestsellers: ‘Bluey’ rounds up top three chart spots
Monday, 18 November 2019
It's a trifecta for Bluey on this week's bestsellers chart, with the highly anticipated tie-in books to the hugely popular Australian cartoon series sitting in the top three spots: lift-the-flap book The...
Bestsellers: Lee Child reaches number one
Monday, 11 November 2019
This week's Australian top 10 bestseller chart is made up exclusively of fiction and memoir titles, with Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller Blue Moon (Bantam) debuting at number one....
Bestsellers: Daniher tops the ladder
Monday, 4 November 2019
AFL alum and Motor Neurone Disease ambassador Neale Daniher has debuted at number one on this week's bestsellers chart with his memoir When All is Said & Done (with Warwick...
Bestsellers: Elton John memoir rockets to number two
Monday, 28 October 2019
Judy Nunn's Townsville-set historical novel Khaki Town (William Heinemann) is spending its second consecutive week at the top of the bestseller chart as Nunn continues to make her way around...
Bestsellers: Nunn number one
Monday, 21 October 2019
After spending one week in the top spot, Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life (A&U) has dropped to number two on the bestsellers chart, replaced by Judy Nunn's historical novel...
Bestsellers: Kitty Flanagan rules the charts
Monday, 14 October 2019
After three consecutive weeks at number one on the bestseller chart, The Testaments (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus) has slipped down to fifth spot, replaced by Aaron Blabey's The Bad...
Bestsellers: Atwood still at one
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) is spending its third consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart since debuting in the top spot, while The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy...
Bestsellers: Mosley on tour; books selling fast
Monday, 30 September 2019
After debuting at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart last week, Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) is spending its second consecutive week in the top spot. Stephen King's...
‘Young Dark Emu’ tops Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers chart
Monday, 30 September 2019
Since we last checked in on the Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers in April, there are five new releases in the chart. Young Dark Emu, a younger readers edition of Bruce Pascoe’s landmark book Dark...
August bestsellers: eight new entries across fiction, nonfiction charts
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
While the two titles at the top of the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts continue their impressive runs, elsewhere in the top 10 there are plenty of new titles....




