1. The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (Quarterly Essay 64) by Stan Grant
2. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
3. The Good People by Hannah Kent
4. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
5. Neighbourhood by Hetty McKinnon
6. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
7. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
8. Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
9. Hope: An Anthology by various
10. Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison

Please note: This list doesn’t include sales from our 12 Days of Christmas Special Offers.

Last week’s bestselling books include some terrific reads to sink your teeth into over the holidays.

Stan Grant’s new Quarterly Essay is a provocative, powerful essay that every Australian should read, while Zoë Morrison’s debut novel, Music and Freedom, was this year’s winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.

(We recently published a blog post featuring some of our favourite 2016 literary prize winners – you can find the list here.)

Also in fiction – Hannah Kent’s The Good People is a engrossing historical tale set in Ireland, Zadie Smith’s Swing Time is an exuberant story of friendship and dance, and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout is a blistering satire on race relations in contemporary America.

Finally, Scott Pape (AKA the ‘Barefoot Investor’) has just released his new non-fiction work – ‘the only money guide you’ll ever need’.