1. Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
2. The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva
3. How I Met Your Father by Aminah Hart
4. Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
6. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
8. Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
9. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
10. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This week’s bestsellers list includes an evocative new Australian novel from award-winning author Inga Simpson. Where the Trees Were is a story about the innocence of childhood and the scars that stay with you for life.

Other bestselling fiction titles include Hanya Yanagihara’s hefty tearjerker about four friends living in New York (A Little Life), Anthony Doerr’s equally hefty Pulitzer Prize-winner (All the Light We Cannot See), and the first two books of Elena Ferrante’s fantastic Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name).

In non-fiction, there’s new essays and memoirs from Helen Garner, Aminah Hart and Stan Grant, as well as Niki Savva’s controversial Auspol read and Paul Kalanithi’s deeply moving memoir.