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Kids
15 Jan 2026

The 100 bestselling kids and YA books of 2025

Featuring Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast by Andy Griffiths, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins and many more!

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Australian fiction
15 Jan 2026

The 100 bestselling books of 2025

Featuring Last One Out by Jane Harper, Earthquake by Niki Savva, The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, and many more!

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Australian fiction
15 Jan 2026

The 100 bestselling books of 2025

Featuring Last One Out by Jane Harper, Earthquake by Niki Savva, The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, and many more!

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Australian fiction
16 Dec 2025

Our booksellers’ picks of the year

Featuring Not Quite White in the Head by Melissa Lucashenko, The Transformations by Andrew Pippos, Flesh by David Szalay and more!

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International fiction
12 Dec 2025

Books to devour over the summer

Featuring Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood, Heartlamp by Banu Mushtaq, Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-reum and more.

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Australian fiction
11 Dec 2025

Short books to get you to your reading goal

Featuring The Sunbird by Sara Haddad, Broken Dreams by Bill Dodd, Orbital by Samantha Harvey and more.

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Australian fiction
10 Dec 2025

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists 2026

Featuring Fierceland by Omar Musa, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Micaela Sahhar, Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan and more.

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Australian fiction
8 Dec 2025

Our November 2025 bestsellers

Featuring Last One Out by Jane Harper, Flesh by David Szalay, Earthquake by Niki Savva and more!

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Nonfiction
4 Dec 2025

The best nonfiction of 2025

Discover the best nonfiction of 2025, as voted by Readings' staff!

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Australian fiction
1 Dec 2025

A guide to our gift guides

Great gift recommendations, curated by Readings' booksellers!

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Food and gardening
27 Nov 2025

2025 Cookbook Highlights

Readings Hawthorn's senior book buyer, Danielle Mirabella, is sharing her round-up of the best cookbooks of the year!

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Australian fiction
27 Nov 2025

Gift ideas for every budget

Featuring Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, Pictures of You by Tony Birch, Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood and more.

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Nonfiction
24 Nov 2025

Our November nonfiction review

Featuring The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, Not Quite White in the Head, by Melissa Lucashenko and more!

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Australian fiction
21 Nov 2025

Top picks for book clubs this month

Featuring The Transformations by Andrew Pippos, Not Quite White in the Head by Melissa Lucashenko, Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood and more!

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