Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian
  2. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
  3. The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
  4. Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
  5. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
  6. The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
  7. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
  8. Normal People by Sally Rooney
  9. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  10. The Fast 800 by Michael Mosley

Dervla McTiernan’s The Scholar has catapulted into our top 10 bestsellers in its first week of release. Set in the cut-throat competitive world of academia, this hotly anticipated second outing for Detective Inspector Cormac Reilly is just as gripping as her debut The Ruin, which was our must-read crime novel of last year.

Ascending into the top 10 this week is Jane Caro’s Accidental Feminists, a fierce celebration of Australia’s second-wave feminists, the strides that women of that generation have made, and the economic barriers that women continue to face today; as well as Sigrid Nunez’s award-winning The Friend, which has been a staff favourite for weeks. This changeable, lyrical meditation on writing, death and dogs is slowly becoming one of the must-reads of the month.

Detained journalist Behrouz Boochani’s memoir No Friend but the Mountains continues apace as our bestselling title, followed by Bruce Pascoe’s game-changing history of Australia’s Indigenous people Dark Emu, followed by the concluding chapter to the beloved Rosie Trilogy, The Rosie Result.

Ottolenghi, Sally Rooney and Yuval Noah Harari continue to prove popular with readers. Harari’s influential work Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is part of our 3-for-2 special offer on non-fiction favourites running throughout February.