1. Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food by Nigella Lawson
2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
3. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
4. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
5. The Moroccan Soup Bar by Hana Assafiri
6. Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders
7. The Whites by Richard Price
8. Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
9. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
10. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

We were delighted to have British food writer and TV star Nigella Lawson visit Melbourne last Monday. Her latest cookbook, Simply Nigella, is our top selling book of the week, and was included in our top ten cookbooks of 2015.

Another bestselling cookbook of last week is a local release. The Moroccan Soup Bar is back in our shops after proving so popular as a Christmas gift, the supplier ran out of stock.

Fiction bestsellers include long-running favourites Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend), Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life) and Charlotte Wood (The Natural Way of Things), as well as a new addition that will likely appeal to fans of The Wire.

The Whites is written by Richard Price, who won a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on this much-lauded HBO series. His latest book is proving a hit with Readings staff – one bookseller called it ‘compulsively readable’, while another described it as ‘a nuanced crime thriller full of morally compromised characters that had me lingering over the memory of them for days’.