Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
  2. Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse
  3. Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
  4. The Good People by Hannah Kent
  5. Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
  6. True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
  7. The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
  8. Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin
  9. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
  10. Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy’s son by Mark Colvin

This year’s Man Booker Prize winner is our bestselling book of last week. A laugh-out-loud, blistering satire on race relations in contemporary America, The Sellout sits comfortably alongside works by Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift.

Last week’s bestsellers list also includes… an inventive, delicious cookbook (that happens to be vegan) from Melbourne restaurateurs Mo Wyse and Shannon Martinez; Ian Rankin’s brand-new John Rebus thriller; a fascinating memoir from journalist and broadcaster Mark Colvin; the 2016 winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction; and, Australian author M.L. Stedman’s bestselling, utterly heartbreaking, novel which has recently been adapted for the screen.