2019 Australian bestsellers: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 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 topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third year running...
Bestsellers: Dark Emu bolts to number one
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Bestsellers: ‘The Testaments’ on top
23 September 2019
The Testaments (Chatto & Windus), Margaret Atwood's long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, has debuted at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, knocking The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by...
Bestsellers: Down under authors on top of the charts
16 September 2019
Children’s books are dominating this week’s bestseller chart, with The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) continuing its run in the top spot. Dog Man #7: For Whom...
Bestsellers: Nothing strange about latest ‘WeirDo’ making the chart
9 September 2019
The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffths & Terry Denton, Pan) is spending its sixth consecutive week at the top of the bestsellers chart, while Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook Veg (Michael Joseph) has moved...
Bestsellers: New Jamie Oliver makes healthy debut at number four
2 September 2019
While The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) and Dog Man 7: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) retain their top two positions on this week's bestsellers...
Bestsellers: New Dog Man chases its way to number two
26 August 2019
New to this week's top 10 bestseller chart is the latest instalment in Dav Pilkey's popular series of middle-grade graphic novels, Dog Man 7: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Scholastic), which...
‘The Secret Runners of New York’ tops July YA bestsellers chart
23 August 2019
Matthew Reilly’s dystopian time-travel thriller The Secret Runners of New York leads the Australian YA bestsellers chart for July, unseating the film tie-in edition of Storm Boy, which has dropped to...
July bestsellers: Ten new entries across fiction, nonfiction
20 August 2019
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 thriller Six Minutes; Michael Robotham’s...
Bestsellers: Room on the chart for ‘The Inn’
19 August 2019
The only new title on this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart is thriller novel The Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Century), which has debuted at fifth place. The...
Bestsellers: ‘Dare to Lead’ challenges ‘Treehouse’ for top spot
12 August 2019
The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) is at the top of the top 10 bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. In second spot...
Bestsellers: latest ‘Treehouse’ tale at top
5 August 2019
Andy Griffiths’ and Terry Denton’s latest ‘Treehouse’ book The 117-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has debuted at the top of this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart. In second place is Scott Pape’s...