1. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
3. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
4. The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
5. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
6. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
8. Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders
9. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
10. The Golden Age by Joan London

Eight of our top ten bestsellers for last week are from women, and nine are fiction releases. The lone non-fiction title is Gut, which our reviewer says will make you unlikely to ever think about food choices the same way again. You can find the full review here.

Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life and the first three of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet are proving popular, as are three fantastic novels from Australian women. Joan London’s The Golden Age is a love story set in a Perth polio clinic in the 1950s, Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things is an exploration of contemporary misogyny set in a isolated prison in the middle of the Australian desert, and Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World is a fascinating study of a marriage and family set across England, Australia and India of the 1960s.

The Other Side of the World was the winner of our Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction last year, and it’s a masterful piece of writing.