1. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
2. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
3. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
4. Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
5. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. The White Girl by Tony Birch
7. Normal People by Sally Rooney
8. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
9. Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel – How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost by Erik Jensen
10. Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey

Several new releases have climbed into last week’s top 10 bestsellers, including Kate Atkinson’s return to the world of detective Jackson Brodie, Big Sky. Set it a sleepy sea-side English town, it contains all the sly humour and moving humanity that Atkinson brings to her other novels. Elizabeth Gilbert’s addictive and dizzying romp through the theatre world of 1940s New York, City of Girls, is also proving popular.

Non-fiction titles making their mark include Georgie Dent’s forthright and timely look at her battle with anxiety, Breaking Badly; eminent historian and official ‘Living Treasure’ Geoffrey Blainey’s memoir Before I Forget; and Erik Jensen’s dissection of the Federal election in Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel. Jensen will also dive further into the social dynamics at play in Australian politics with The Arsonist author Chloe Hooper at tonight’s event. Snap up the chance to hear these two great minds in conversation.

Readers continue to connect with stand-out Australian fiction and non-fiction, including Boy Swallows Universe, which leads the top 10; Bruce Pascoe’s landmark look at pre-colonial First Nations civilisations Dark Emu and Tony Birch’s The White Girl, a moving story of inheritance, family and trauma centred on Aboriginal families who had their children forcibly taken away.