1. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
2. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (available 24 September)
3. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
4. Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap (Quarterly Essay 75) by Annabel Crabb
5. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
6. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
7. The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
8. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
9. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
10. We Refugees edited by Emma Larking

Our bestselling book of last week is The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Set 15 years after Atwood’s 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale, her new novel is similarly styled as a series of historical documents and follows three narrators as they describe their lives in the world of Gilead. Read our review here.

Compelling non-fiction reads from Australians Bruce Pascoe, Annabel Crabb and Tyson Yunkaporta are all listed here, as well as new new titles from bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell and William Dalrymple. A rush of pre-orders for Patti Smith’s forthcoming memoir, Year of the Monkey, have also bumped it into our bestsellers – look out for its release tomorrow!

And we’re very happy to see the anthology, We Refugees, among these books. Edited by Emma Larking, this anthology brings together a collection of stories, essays and poetry, and was launched last week by Julian Burnside.