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Most read news and features over the past seven days
- New report finds India’s print book market worth US$10 billion
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2026 winners announced
- Amplify Bookstore receives threats of arson, violence
- South Australian Literary Awards 2026 shortlist announced
- Blak & Bright Writers Festival reports increased attendance
- Australia Reads hosts “packed” Parliament House event
- University of Queensland Press acquires George Kemp’s “The Herd”, sells North American rights to debut
- Meet the Australians attending Frankfurt in 2026
- NSW History Awards 2026 winners announced
- Australian Booksellers Association event grant recipients announced
Most read news and features over the past month
- CBCA 2026 Book of the Year Award winners announced
- Pages HQ bookshop to open in Drouin
- New report finds India’s print book market worth US$10 billion
- ADS: Backordered stock to begin arriving “in coming week”
- What should we take away from the ADS crisis?
- Publication of Isaac Heeney title suspended
- Hachette acquires Smith Street Books
- Ned Kelly Awards 2026 best debut crime fiction shortlist announced
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2026 winners announced
- Amplify Bookstore receives threats of arson, violence
Most read stories over the past 12 months
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- David Brooks wins 2025 Patrick White Literary Award
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- CBCA announces 2026 book week theme
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- Ruffino to depart Simon & Schuster
- Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books workers strike
Most read news and features since 1 January 2026
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- CBCA announces 2026 book week theme
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- Australian Publishers Association Graphic Novel Editing Intensive announced
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- “Tori Woods” found guilty
- CBCA 2026 shortlist announced
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist announced
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- international news
- features
Most read features
Most read feature articles over the past month
- Pages HQ bookshop to open in Drouin
- What should we take away from the ADS crisis?
- Amplify Christmas picks
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Meet the Australians attending Frankfurt in 2026
- Muurrbay: Seeding a publishing ecosystem in Aboriginal Languages
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Brush Turkey Books thrives in Wingham
Most read feature articles over the past 12 months
- Bayt Al-Hikma: the first library in the Islamic world
- NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
- Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library
- Has the number of bookshops in Australia really halved? Probably not, but we should still be worried
- New year 2026 preview: Nonfiction
- The Rose Read Bookshop to open in Summer Hill
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- The Bookshop opens in Colac
- New Year 2026 preview: Fiction
- Mihai Eminescu Central University Library: An active cultural hub
Most read rights news stories
Most read stories over the past month in the Junior category
- PRH acquires “A Classified Affair” by Chloe Hooper
- Allen & Unwin acquires “Now or Never” by James Massola and Shane Wright
- Flame Tree acquires 3 novels by Eugen Bacon
- Summit acquires debut novel “People Will Get Hurt by This” by Katie Newton
- Text acquires Melanie Skyers debut novel
- Wiley acquires Hannah Brown’s “Wired to Lead”
- Penguin Random House acquires two YA horror novels by Margot McGovern
- Queer AFL romance “After the Siren” optioned for screen
- Peter Carey debut “Bliss” to be adapted for television
- Allen & Unwin acquires Kylie Mansfield’s “The Storyteller of Wyld Hall”
Most read reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Not Quite White in the Head (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP), stars, reviewed by Tierney Khan
- (fiction): The Hiding Place (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (nonfiction): The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial (Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, Text), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): Swallow (Alexandria Burnham, WestWords), stars, reviewed by Katy Briggs
- (younger_readers): Escape from Sherwood (Beattie Alvarez, illus David Allan, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Anneliese Gates
- (picture_book): Dogs with Jobs: The Heroic Hounds Who Make a Difference (Andrea Rowe, illus Julia Murray, HGCP), stars, reviewed by Charlotte Callander
- (picture_book): Yes, No, Maybe (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Joy Lawn
- (nonfiction): Yet She Lives: Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology (Lisa Hannett, T&H), stars, reviewed by Abe Theobald
- (fiction): How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates (Shailee Thompson, Atria Australia), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (poetry): beautiful changelings (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Denise Jarrott
- (fiction): Might Cry Later (Kay Kerr, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Lisandra Linde
- (fiction): Bugger (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Alex Durac
- (picture_book): Outback Country: A Collection of Short Stories from Cunnamulla (Kids from Cunnamulla, ILF), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): Collision (Kelvin Templeton, Wilkinson Publishing), stars, reviewed by Nikki Taylor
- (fiction): An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating (Cecilia Edward, Atria Australia), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (fiction): On Not Climbing Mountains (Claire Thomas, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Ellie Fisher
- (nonfiction): A Brain That Breathes: Essential Habits for an Overwhelming World (Jodi Wilson, Murdoch), stars, reviewed by Marissa Kyriakopoulos
- (picture_book): Otto’s Ink-Redible First Day of School (Rory H Mather, illus by Rebel Challenger, Larrikin), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (fiction): Else (Rose Michael, Spineless Wonders), stars, reviewed by Alex Durac
- (picture_book): Muttonfish Magic (Ruth Simms & Lucy Robertson, illus Jasmine Seymour, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Joy Lawn
