Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2024 YTD
20 March 2024
While the children’s category in Australia, which represents 29% of the market, fell by 4.4% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to Nielsen, this came after a significant boom courtesy...
Australian bestsellers 2023 YTD
13 September 2023
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles YTD The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm) 96,745 Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U) 70,765 Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) 35,890 The Dictionary of Lost Words...
Bestselling Australian books 2022
6 April 2023
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) The Dictionary of...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2023 YTD
20 February 2023
Children’s books boomed in Australia during the pandemic and continue to be a success story for the market. According to data from Nielsen BookScan, the children’s category was up 7.7%...
Australian bestsellers 2022 YTD
13 October 2022
Top 10 Australian fiction YTD Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) 44,080 The Murder Rule (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins) 40,870 Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) 39,770 Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmiillan) 37,040...
Moriarty, Dalton top Australian fiction, nonfiction charts YTD
1 April 2022
Trent Dalton, whose 2018 debut Boy Swallows Universe remains in the top 10 Australian fiction bestsellers over three years after its publication, is at the top of Australian nonfiction charts...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2022 YTD
16 March 2022
After a bumper year of sales in 2020, in which the children's category was up 9.6% on 2019, the Australian children's book market fell ever so slightly in 2021 (-0.2%),...
Williams, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2021 YTD
29 September 2021
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams has topped the Australian fiction bestsellers for the year to date (YTD), selling more than 66,000 copies in 2021 so far, edging...
Williams, Pape top Australian fiction, nonfiction charts YTD
9 June 2021
Pip Williams’s lockdown bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words—which was number six on the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in 2020—has risen to number one in the chart for the year-to-date....
‘Treehouse’ titles top children’s fiction, nonfiction charts
26 May 2021
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series—which celebrates 10 years in print this year—has topped the Australian children’s fiction chart (The 130-Storey Treehouse) and Australian children’s/YA nonfiction chart (The Treehouse...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2020
17 March 2021
For the second year running, Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor have come out on top as the year’s overall bestselling Australian...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers YTD
30 September 2020
Trent Dalton’s 2018 debut novel Boy Swallows Universe has topped the Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020. Literary,...
‘The 117-Storey Treehouse’ tops 2019 Australian children’s chart
19 March 2020
The 117-Storey Treehouse, the ninth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s internationally published junior fiction series, was the bestselling Australian children’s book in 2019. It managed to hold off...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 2019 Australian charts
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 have topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third...
‘Khaki Town’ and ‘488 Rules for Life’ top Australian charts
14 November 2019
The Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts have two new chart-toppers: Judy Nunn’s WWII novel Khaki Town, set in northern Australia on the brink of Japanese invasion, and comedian Kitty...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
10 October 2019
Christian White’s debut mystery-thriller The Nowhere Child is back in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart following the release of his second book The Wife and the Widow in late September...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
12 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....
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
15 August 2019
Australian fiction bestsellers: July There are 10 new entries across the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts in July. In fiction, it’s all about the thriller: Petronella McGovern’s debut suburban...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
11 July 2019
Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe and Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz continue to hold on to the first and second spots in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in June,...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
14 June 2019
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning Boy Swallows Universe—now in the running for the Miles Franklin Literary Award—remains at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in May, while Scott Pape’s The...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
7 May 2019
A new paperback edition of Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning novel Boy Swallows Universe is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for April. Three new releases have also debuted...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
11 April 2019
New paperback editions have propelled Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers to the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in March and Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut into sixth place....
‘The Rosie Result’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
15 March 2019
Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Result—the final instalment in the internationally bestselling Rosie trilogy—has debuted at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for February. Other new entries in the...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
14 February 2019
Beach reads and healthy eating titles are ubiquitous on the Australian bestsellers charts in the aftermath of Christmas, and this is reflected in January’s bestsellers. Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Nine...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ top Australian charts
15 November 2018
Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Nine Perfect Strangers has debuted at number one in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart, while three of her previous titles—The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies and...
Australian bestsellers in September: ‘Scrublands’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ remain at the top
11 October 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: September Australian crime-thrillers are currently dominating the local bestsellers chart, with Chris Hammer’s debut novel Scrublands at the top of the fiction bestsellers chart for September following...
‘Scrublands’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
13 September 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: August Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands—which has been sold into numerous overseas territories and optioned for television—has debuted in first place in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart...
‘The Other Wife’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
16 August 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: July Mega-selling author Michael Robotham’s latest crime-thriller The Other Wife has debuted at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for July. It’s joined in the...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
12 July 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: June Heather Morris’ novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz—based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, who met his future wife while working as a tattooist at the...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
15 June 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: May Much-loved Australian novelist Tim Winton tops the fiction charts this month with The Shepherd’s Hut, but his 2008 novel Breath is back in the top 10...