Bestselling Australian adult titles 2020
For the second year running, Boy Swallows Universe and The Barefoot Investor have come out on top as the year's overall bestselling Australian books in their respective categories, with The Barefoot Investor the...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey dominate Australian bestsellers YTD
Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe tops Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020 and more than 500,000...
BWF wrap-up: Dalton tops bestsellers
This year’s Brisbane Writers festival (BWF), which ran from 6 to 9 September, was programmed by guest artistic director Carl Lindgren, who worked with the theme ‘What the World Needs...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
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...
Bestsellers this week
Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) has extended its run as Australia’s number one bestseller for a seventh consecutive week, taking out the top spot overall...
Bestsellers this week
Guinness World Records 2016 (Guinness World Records) has climbed to second spot on the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, sitting behind Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney,...
Reilly, Ponting top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
Fox, Griffiths, Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2012-13
For the third year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts for July...
Courtenay, Hay top Australian bestsellers charts 2012-13
Bryce Courtenay’s final novel Jack of Diamonds (Viking) and Donna Hay’s Fresh and Light (HarperCollins) have topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2012 to June 2013, according...
Bestsellers this week
In 2006 the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet (Manny Noakes & Peter Clifton, Penguin) pushed ahead of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code (Transworld) on the bestseller charts and caused media controversy,...
Nielsen to launch ebook chart in ‘months rather than years’
Ebooks in Australia must be consistently identified by ISBN before an ebook bestseller chart service can be created, according to Nielsen BookScan Australia spokesperson Shaun Symonds. Following a statement from...
Bestsellers chart (week ending 20 March 2010)
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint RRP 1 61 Hours Lee Child Bantam $32.95 2 The Girl Who Played with...
Bestsellers this week
There’s a storm brewing in South Dakota and also on this weeks bestseller charts as Lee Child’s thriller 61 Hours (Bantam) blasts in to number one ahead of Stieg Larsson's...
Bestsellers this week
Last week's two bestsellers Clive Cussler's The Silent Sea and Belinda Alexandra's Tuscan Rose moved to second and sixth place respectively in the bestseller charts, while Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy...
Bestsellers this week
There's pirate treasure to be found in Clive Cussler's seventh book in the ‘Oregon Files' saga The Silent Sea and an Italian tale of passion, love and magic in Belinda...
BookScan’s 2008 top sellers: take four ingredients, and just add teen vampires
The best selling book in Australia in 2008, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan, was 4 Ingredients, selling some 288,000 copies last year (on top of the 131,000 copies it...
Bestsellers
In the retail days around Christmas Stephenie Meyer held her Bestseller lead with New Moon and Eclipse (Hachette), followed by J K Rowling’s slim volume of magical fairytales The Tales...
Harry tops year’s bestsellers; five Australians in top 10
Books by Australian authors have taken five of the top 10 spots in the financial year's bestsellers, according to Nielsen BookScan. Nielsen BookScan has provided WBN with figures that show...
Global bestsellers
A number of different year-end bestseller lists from around the world published recently demonstrate the wide variety of titles that become successful in different markets.Zusak ranks in European chartsAccording to...