Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen)
  2. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  3. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  4. Depends What You Mean by Extremist by John Safran
  5. The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
  6. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
  7. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
  8. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
  9. The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor)
  10. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Haruki Murakami’s new story collection, Men Without Women, is our bestselling book of last week. Our reviewer recommends it for Murakami collectors, and for ‘anyone who has wanted to read him, but didn’t know where to start’. Read the full review here.

We were lucky enough last week to also have some international literary stars drop by on their way to Sydney Writers’ Festival to sign copies of their books for Readings customers. Four have made it onto our bestsellers list. This includes Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner The Underground Railroad, the weird and wonderful debut novel from George Saunders, and two books from Roxanne Gay – her essay collection, Bad Feminist, and her story collection, Difficult Women.

Fans might be excited to learn that Gay’s forthcoming memoir, Hunger, has been bumped forward for release in mid-June. We know we are!