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Australian bestsellers in 2025

Top 10 Australian adult fiction bestsellers

  1. Last One Out (Jane Harper, Pan Macmillan), 112k
  2. Gravity Let Me Go (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), 75k
  3. Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Pan Macmillan), 63k
  4. The Unquiet Grave (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins), 51k
  5. The Detective (Matthew Reilly, Pan Macmillan), 49k
  6. Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Pan Macmillan), 47k
  7. Pilbara (Judy Nunn, HarperCollins), 42k
  8. Legacy (Chris Hammer, A&U), 42k
  9. The White Crow (Michael Robotham, Hachette), 36k
  10. Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy, Penguin), 34k

Top 10 Australian adult nonfiction bestsellers

  1. RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Pan Macmillan), 149k
  2. RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Pan Macmillan), 128k
  3. Nobody’s Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Penguin), 68k
  4. Bake with Brooki (Brooke Bellamy, Penguin), 62k
  5. Simple Dinners Every Day (Nicole Maguire, Pan Macmillan), 56k
  6. Cosy Calm (Cherry Lam, Penguin), 51k
  7. Australia (Tony Abbott, HarperCollins), 48k
  8. The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley), 42k
  9. Easy Dinner Queen (Steph De Sousa, AWW Cookbooks), 38k
  10. The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop (Peter FitzSimons, Hachette), 30k

Top 10 Australian children’s bestsellers

  1. The Truck Cat (Deborah Frenkel, Hardie Grant), 52k
  2. Wombat Stew (40th Anniversary Edition) (Marcia Vaughan, Scholastic), 39k
  3. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Puffin), 34k
  4. Where is The Green Sheep? (Mem Fox, Puffin), 32k
  5. Silverborn (Nevermoor 4) (Jessica Townsend, Hachette), 32k
  6. Kissed by the Moon (Alison Lester, Penguin), 31k
  7. Do Not Open This Book It’s Out of this World (Andy Lee, Lake Press), 30k
  8. Fairy Beach (Sheila Knaggs, Affirm), 29k
  9. Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping (Craig Silvey, A&U), 29k
  10. Do Not Open This Book (It Stinks) (Andy Lee, Lake Press), 27k

© NielsenIQ BookScan, timeframe: 2025.
Data supplied by NielsenIQ BookScan’s book sales monitoring system from over 1300 outlets nationwide.

 

Category: Think Australian bestsellers