The rise and rise of Melina Marchetta continues as her new book The Piper's Son - helped by events with Melina at the State Library and Readings Hawthorn over the weekend - sold more than any other title at Readings last week. See what our St Kilda kids' book specialist Callie Martin thought of The Piper's Son in her review.

Here are our best selling fiction and non-fiction titles from last week, excluding book sales from the Atheist Convention over the weekend.

BESTSELLING FICTION

  1. The Piper's Son — Melina Marchetta
  2. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest — Stieg Larsson
  3. Alone In Berlin — Hans Fallada
  4. Cloudstreet — Tim Winton
  5. A Stairway To Paradise — Madeleine St John
  6. We Are All Made Of Glue — Marina Lewycka
  7. Mr Rosenblum's List — Natasha Solomons
  8. The Pregnant Widow — Martin Amis
  9. Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
  10. Lovesong — Alex Miller

BESTSELLING NON-FICTION

  1. The Good Soldiers — David Finkel
  2. The Age Cheap Eats 2010
  3. Requiem For A Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change — Clive Hamilton
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution — Richard Dawkins
  5. The Guide To Ethical Supermarket Shopping 2010 — Ethical Consumer Group
  6. Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs — Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons
  7. Abla's Lebanese Kitchen — Abla Amad
  8. On Passion: Little Books On Big Themes — Dorothy Porter
  9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating — Barbara Kingsolver
  10. Excess: Anti-Consumerism in the West — Kim Humphery