Data nerds! We’ve compiled some statistics for the first half of this year and turned them into beautiful infographics for your appreciation.

A note about the data: the sales data in this report comes from our weekly top 10 bestseller lists (see an example here). This data excludes children’s bestsellers. Further statistics were gathered from our weekly ‘what we’re reading’ column (see an example here), our review list and all the events listed in our Readings Monthly newsletter.

Overall, fiction just nips non-fiction in the bud with 52% of our top 10 weekly bestsellers being fiction books.

We love Australian books, and it seems like our customers do too! Here’s ten more coming out in the second half of the year that our staff are excited about.

It’s been a terrific year for women writers this year at Readings. And we haven’t even included any of our sales from July which is a truly excellent month for Australian women writers. Read more here.

Not only is Emma Farrarons’ The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People the undisputed queen of bestsellers, but colouring books formed 8% of all the books that made our weekly top 10 bestseller lists.

You can browse our collection of adult colouring books here

Can you guess which bestselling book matches to which image? You can find the answers here.

One of these books has already appeared in our weekly top 10 bestseller list 22 times this year! (HINT: It’s a fast-paced crime thriller.)

In our weekly ‘what we’re reading’ column, staff share what they’re reading, and it’s usually what they’re loving as well. Here are some books that more than one staff member mentioned in this column:

• Here by Richard McGuire
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
• The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
• Bad Behaviour by Rebecca Starford
• Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny
• Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Find more staff favourites of 2015 (so far) here.