1. Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
2. Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
3. Philoxenia: A Seat at My Table by Kon & Sia Karapanagiotidis
4. Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
5. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
6. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
7. Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
8. Unruly by David Mitchell
9. The Seven by Chris Hammer
10. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
11. The Last Devil to Die (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 4) by Richard Osman
12. The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
13. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
14. My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda
15. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
16. Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
17. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
18. The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
19. Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta
20. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Our bestseller this month, going straight in at number one, was Killing for Country: A Family Story by renowned investigative journalist David Marr. Shocked to discover his forebears served with the Native Police, the most brutal force in Australian history, Marr has penned a unique, richly detailed and gripping history of Australia's Frontier Wars.

As we rush headlong into the festive season there are a wonderful array of new books flooding our shelves meaning our top 20 has seen an almost complete makeover this month. We are excited about The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas, a tender, affecting novel of love, of hope, of forgiveness; Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson; Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood; Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko; and Philoxenia: A Seat at My Table by Kon & Sia Karapanagiotidis, a beautiful and inspiring Greek vegetarian and vegan cookbook.

Also noteworthy are Unruly by comedian David Mitchell, a funny and clever history of Britain's early kings and queens and So Late in the Day the new novel from Irish author Claire Keegan whose book Small Things Like These was shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize.