Our October 2025 bestsellers — Readings Books

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Favourite authors have been plentiful this month, just in time for summer – hooray! There's a big focus on Australian authors: Last One Out, a new standalone novel from Jane Harper; just in time for Trent Dalton's A Day in Carlton visit is his latest book Gravity Let Me Go; Heather Rose's enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne, A Great Act of Love; Bri Lee's Seed; and a collection of acclaimed writer Tony Birch’s short fiction from the past two decades, Pictures of You.

On the nonfiction front is Defiance by Bob Brown; Helen Goh's wonderful debut solo cookbook, Baking and the Meaning of Life; and Nobody's Girl, Virginia Roberts Guiffre's searing and unforgettable memoir.

There's not enough space to spruik them all but we think you'll be excited by the latest offerings … and there's more still to come!


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1. The Impossible Fortune (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 5) by Richard Osman

2. Last One Out by Jane Harper

3. Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton

4. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

5. Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

6. Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders by Bob Brown

7. A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose

8. The Worst Thing I've Ever Done by Clare Stephens

9. Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh

10. Alchemised by SenLinYu

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11. Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Guiffre

12. Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion

13. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

14. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

15. Legacy by Chris Hammer

16. Seed by Bri Lee

17. Simple Dinners Every Day by Nicole Maguire

18. Pictures of You: Collected Stories by Tony Birch

19. The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

20. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon