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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

12 April 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: March Last month we reported that The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by debut author Holly Ringland (HarperCollins) had sold into 19 territories. This month the book,...

8 March 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz tops the fiction list for February. The novel is based on the true story of Lale Sokolov—the tattooist of the title—and his future wife, Gita Fuhrmannova, whom...

8 February 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: January Jane Harper’s Force of Nature (Macmillan) has finally ceded top spot on the fiction chart—to Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan), the debut crime novel that started...

9 November 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: October Force of Nature, the follow-up to Jane Harper’s bestselling, award-winning crime-fiction debut The Dry, is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for a...