1. Keating (special edition) by Kerry O'Brien
2. The Moroccan Soup Bar: Recipes of a Spoken Menu and a Little Bit of Spice by Hana Assafiri
3. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
4. The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
5. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
6. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
7. M Train by Patti Smith
8. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
9. Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
10. Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton

Fascinating real lives are popular this week with Keating by Kerry O'Brien inevitably taking the top spot, and memoirs by much-loved actor Magda Szubanski, with Reckoning, and songwriter and artist Patti Smith, with M Train.

The Australian film The Dressmaker based on Rosalie Ham’s novel of the same name has just opened, so no surprise to see it at number 3. Last week we announced the winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction so we’re delighted to see readers flocking to buy Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World.

And, in Melbourne at least, it still seems to be soup weather which is one reason why the second spot is taken by a book that spills the secrets of Fitzroy’s famous soup bar, Moroccan Soup Bar: Recipes of a Spoken Menu and a Little Bit of Spice by its chef Hana Assafiri.