Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. Wimmera by Mark Brandi
  2. Open House Melbourne Weekend: 2017 Program by Open House Melbourne
  3. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
  4. Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Cardinal Pell by Louise Milligan (this book is no longer available for sale in Victoria)
  5. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
  6. The Long Goodbye (Quarterly Essay 66) by Anna Krien
  7. Hunger by Roxane Gay
  8. Random Life by Judy Horacek
  9. The Clever Guts Diet by Michael Mosley
  10. The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

Mark Brandi’s debut novel, Wimmera is our bestselling book from the past week. This literary crime novel won the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and is perfect for fans of Jane Harper’s The Dry and Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones. You can read a feature review of Wimmera by award-winning author Jock Serong here.

Also on this week’s bestseller list is the program for the 2017 Open House Melbourne Weekend, which will take place 29-30 July. This year’s 10th anniversary bumper edition comes with a choice of ten different covers, and includes over 200 buildings, interviews with some of Melbourne’s leading modernist architects, and a fold-out map.

For more reading inspiration, the July edition of the Readings Monthly is now available. You can pick up a copy at any of our seven shops, or download a PDF verison here. This month’s edition features artwork from another of this week’s bestsellers – Judy Horacek’s Random Life – on the front cover.