Readings Best of the Best 2025

Readings has shared its Best of the Best 2025, a list of books picked by staff and voted on by the public.

The chosen titles are:

Australian fiction

• Tenderfoot (Toni Jordan, Hachette)

International fiction

• Heart the Lover (Lily King, Canongate)

Nonfiction

• The Mushroom Tapes (Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, Text)

Picture books

• The Bookshop on Lemon Tree Lane (Mike Lucas, illus Sofya Karmazina, HGCP)

Junior and middle-grade

• Caring for Country (Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage & Jasmin McGaughey, illus Savi Ross, Thames & Hudson)

Young adult fiction

• Lady’s Knight (Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, A&U Children’s).

More information is available on the Readings website.

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