1. Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How To Govern (Quarterly Essay 60) by Laura Tingle
2. This Annoying Life: A Mindless Colouring Book for the Highly Stressed by Oslo Davis
3. The Moroccan Soup Bar: Recipes of a Spoken Menu and a Little Bit of Spice by Hana Assafiri
4. The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
5. Keating by Kerry O'Brien
6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
8. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
9. Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
10. Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin

Please note: This list doesn’t include sales from our 12 Days of Christmas Special Offers!

The latest Quarterly Essay is our number one seller for last week. In her examination of good, and bad, governance, political editor of the Australian Financial Review Laura Tingle ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of the internet age.

Other bestselling books for last week include: three prize-winning novels (The Other Side of the World, All the Light We Cannot See, A Brief History of Seven Killings); the latest John Rebus crime thriller from Ian Rankin (Even Dogs in the Wild); and Oslo Davis’s very funny take on the colouring book craze (This Annoying Life).