1. On Identity by Stan Grant
2. Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
3. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dlaton
4. Australia Day by Stan Grant
5. The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
6. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
7. The Overstory by Richard Powers
8. Normal People by Sally Rooney
9. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
10. Stone and Star by Helen Macrae

Stan Grant’s meditation on hope and community, On Identity, leads the pack of bestsellers this week. Grant’s new book, Australia Day, is also on the list, and well worth a look for readers looking to explore reconciliation and the struggle for indigenous identity in this country. ‘Reading Australia Day is like sitting at the kitchen table with Grant and listening to him talking to you’ – see our events and programming manager Chris’s review for more.

We have some repeat offenders on the list again this week; Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning Boy Swallows Universe and Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s Stella Prize-winning The Erratics are both examples of powerhouse Australian writing and we are proud to celebrate such amazing Australian authors like these two. Another great Australian writer to be looking out for is Melanie Cheng, and her novel Room for a Stranger. Coming in at number two on the bestsellers list, this is a wonderful contemporary novel with rich characterisation and prose from the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction.

Also check out Helen Macrae’s new novel, Stone and Star; an atmospheric novel about tensions between three hikers on a mountain bushwalk in Tasmania.