Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. The Yield by Tara June Winch
  2. Women and Leadership by Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  3. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
  4. Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
  5. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  6. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
  7. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
  8. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
  9. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
  10. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Tara June Winch won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Yield, sending this impactful and important novel rocketing right up to the top of our bestseller list this week. Read more about this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award here.

Also on this week’s bestseller list is an inspirational and practical book from Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Women and Leadership) a fascinating work of Australian historical fiction from Kate Grenville (A Room Made of Leaves), an intimate family memoir about the toxic Trump dynasty (Too Much and Never Enough), and Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other.

The groundbreaking anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia also makes an appearance in our top ten this week. Don’t forget that during the month of July Readings will be matching the publisher Black Inc’s donation of $2 for every copy of this book sold, which means that $4 from every copy purchased at Readings until 31 July 2020 will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.