Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
  2. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
  3. The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)
  4. Bleed by Bill Williams
  5. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  6. Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson
  7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  8. ST Gill & His Audiences by Sasha Grishin
  9. Prick with a Fork: The World’s Worst Waitress Spills the Beans by Larissa Dubecki
  10. And You May Find Yourself by Paul Dalgarno

There are no colouring books in our top ten this week!

Our number one bestseller is Rosie Waterland’s darkly comic memoir of her traumatic childhood The Anti-Cool Girl. Rosie headlined two fantastic sold-out events at our shops last week – here’s a picture of her with her many lovely fans. Right now, you can buy signed copies of Rosie’s book through our website and in our Carlton shop, and you can read an edited extract from the book here.

Readings’ favourite (obsession is probably not too strong of a word) Elena Ferrante has two books in our top ten this week – the newly released The Story of the Lost Child, which is the fourth and final book in her Neapolitan series, and My Brilliant Friend, which is the first book in the series. If you’re a Ferrante fan, or are interested in becoming one, you might want to come along to our Ferrante Fever event this week.

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The Anti-Cool Girl

Rosie Waterland

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