Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. Women and Leadership by Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  2. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
  3. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
  4. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
  5. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  6. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
  7. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
  8. Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
  9. The Safe Place by Anna Downes
  10. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

If you’re looking for the perfect Lockdown 2.0 book recommendations list, then go no further than our bestsellers this week! Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s lively analysis of gender and leadership zoomed into the top spot in its first week, and would be a great companion read with another of our bestselling books, the re-released classic Talkin’ Up to the White Woman.

If you’re itching for some fiction, Kate Grenville’s playful novel of real and invented Australian history, A Room Made of Leaves, has been very popular with Readings customers, as have two gripping Australian debuts, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing and The Safe Place. Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker-Prize winning Girl, Woman, Other has been a regular feature on our bestsellers since its publication, and is still finding an appreciative readership.

Non-fiction readers are also well-catered for, with Bruce Pascoe’s seminal Dark Emu, the excellent anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and Julia’s Baird’s uplifting Phosphorescence all excellent choices for the current moment.