1. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
2. The Dry by Jane Harper
3. Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler
4. The Girls by Emma Cline
5. Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
6. Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
7. The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths
8. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
9. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
10. The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith

We were delighted to have Alain de Botton drop by Readings last week for a visit. Signed copies of his new novel flew out the door afterwards, and so it’s no surprise to see The Course of Love sitting at the top of our bestsellers list.

Other international novels that have been popular with our customers are Anne Tyler’s modern reimagining of Shakespeare (Vinegar Girl), Hanya Yanagihara’s epic New York novel of last year (A Little Life), and Emma Cline’s evocative debut inspired by the Manson family (The Girls). You can find more suggestions for novels that explore life in cults and communes here.

Readers are also still flocking to some wonderful recent Australian fiction debuts: The Dry by Jane Harper, Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison, and Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa are all repeat offenders on our bestsellers list.