1. The Dry by Jane Harper
2. Barkskins by Annie Proulx
3. Speaking Out: A 21st-Century Handbook for Women and Girls by Tara Moss
4. The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
5. Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
6. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
7. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
8. Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler
9. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
10. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

Eight of our top ten bestsellers for last week are by women, and two of these are translated novels that have received wide acclaim: The Vegetarian and My Brilliant Friend. (Both of these works are also translated by women.)

In Australian fiction, there’s Jane Harper’s phenomenal literary crime debut The Dry, Charlotte Wood’s Stella prize-winning novel The Natural Way of Things, and Dominic Smith’s masterful new novel, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos. We recently included The Last Painting of Sara De Vos in a collection of novels inspired by the art world – read more here.

Two international superstars have also recently released new novels: Annie Proulx gives readers a 500+ page epic about the taking down of the world’s forests in Barkskins, and Anne Tyler reimagines Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew for a modern day setting in Vinegar Girl.