Last week's top ten bestsellers

  1. Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
  2. Tiddas by Anita Heiss
  3. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
  4. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
  5. The Age: Good Food Under $30 by Simone Egger
  6. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  7. I Quit Sugar for Life: 148 Recipes + Meal Plans for Families and Solos by Sarah Wilson
  8. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  9. Earth Hour by David Malouf
  10. That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution (Quarterly Essay 53) by Paul Toohey

Our bestsellers list for last week is jam-packed with goodness: the intriguing true story of a young Australian swept up in international intelligence (Prisoner X), a brand new Quarterly Essay on asylum seekers (That Sinking Feeling), a stunning collection of poetry from “a master poet” (Earth Hour), a novel from Siri Hustvedt that “burns the page away” (The Blazing World), and much more.

(Not to mention seven books from female authors and seven books from Australian authors!)

The list also includes Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites which is included on the Stella Prize 2014 Longlist (see the full list here). Don’t forget that the shortlist for the prize gets announced this Thursday at noon…