1. The Performance by Claire Thomas

2. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

3. Growing Up Disabled in Australia edited by Carly Findlay

4. Reset by Ross Garnaut

5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

6. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

7. Land by Simon Winchester

8. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

9. The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

10. The Imitator by Rebecca Starford

Our bestseller from the past week is The performance, a meditation on the lives of four women – three real, one fictional – set to the backdrop of a performance of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.

Other new releases making an appearance on our bestseller list this week are renowned economist Ross Garnaut’s plan for a successful post-Covid Australian economy, an exploration of the history of colonisation and philosophy of land ownership, and Bill Gates’ investigation into the causes and effects of climate change.