Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

1. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
2. The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future (Quarterly Essay 78) by Judith Brett
3. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
4. Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
5. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
6. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
7. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
8. Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
9. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
10. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

Our bestselling books of last week include some essential antiracist reads (Me and White Supremacy, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Fragility), a delicious Melbourne cookbook (Beatrix Bakes), Judith Brett’s must-read new Quarterly Essay (The Coal Curse), last year’s Man Booker Prize winner (Girl, Woman, Other), fiction from Australian Pip Williams (The Dictionary of Lost Words) and American Curtis Sittenfeld (Rodham), an uplifting non-fiction work for facing dark times (Phosphorescence), and a terrific anthology of stories from First Nations voices (Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia).