Steven Amsterdam's apperance at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the annoucement that his book Things We Didn't See Coming had won the Age Book of the Year award saw the book sell more than any other book at the Readings festival bookshop at Federation Square over the first MWF weekend.
- Things We Didn't See Coming — Steven Amsterdam
- Raft — Howard Goldenberg
- Guilt About The Past — Bernhard Schlink
- The Winter Vault — Anne Michaels
- The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love — Anne Summers
- The Lieutenant — Kate Grenville
- D-Day: The Battle For Normandy — Antony Beevor
- The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest To Heal His Son — Rupert Isaacson
- Murder In Amsterdam: The Death Of Theo Van Gogh And The Limits Of Tolerance — Ian Buruma
- The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One — David Kilcullen
