1. The Moroccan Soup Bar: Recipes of a Spoken Menu and a Little Bit of Spice by Hana Assafiri
2. The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
3. Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
4. This Annoying Life: A Mindless Colouring Book for the Highly Stressed by Oslo Davis
5. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
6. Even Dogs in the Wild: The New John Rebus by Ian Rankin
7. Watson’s Worst Words: A Compendium of Management Gibberish by Don Watson
8. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
9. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
10. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

This week’s list of top ten bestselling books features some terrific books, many of which would make excellent gifts for Christmas.

For your relative who loves language, there’s Watson’s Worst Words from Don Watson. For your friend with a grudge against adult colouring books, there’s Oslo Davis’s “mindless colouring book for the highly stressed”. For your partner who loves to host big dinner parties, there’s the absolutely delicious Moroccan Soup Bar cookbook.

The list also includes three of the big prize winners of this year: Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World (winner of the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction); Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize); and, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize).