The 100 bestselling books of 2022

We’ve run the reports and done the math. Here are our 100 bestselling books from the past year.


  1. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
  2. Bulldozed by Niki Savva
  3. Exiles by Jane Harper
  4. Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
  5. Lessons by Ian McEwan
  6. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
  7. Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
  8. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  9. Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
  10. Around the Table by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
  11. Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
  12. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
  13. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  14. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
  15. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  16. Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  17. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
  18. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
  19. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  20. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
  21. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  22. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  23. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
  24. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  25. Sunbathing by Isobel Beech
  26. Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
  27. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  28. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame
  29. Still Life by Sarah Winman
  30. Love Stories by Trent Dalton
  31. Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
  32. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  33. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  34. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
  35. Normal People by Sally Rooney
  36. RecipeTin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
  37. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
  38. All About Love by Bell Hooks
  39. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
  40. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  41. Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
  42. Dune by Frank Herbert
  43. My Dream Time by Ash Barty
  44. Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid Delaney
  45. Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
  46. Not Now, Not Ever edited by Julia Gillard
  47. Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
  48. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
  49. The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
  50. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  51. The 156-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
  52. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
  53. The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
  54. Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear
  55. The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
  56. Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf by Katharine Murphy
  57. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, Anton Hur, (trans.)
  58. Yiayia Next Door by Daniel and Luke Mancuso
  59. She and her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
  60. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  61. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
  62. Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
  63. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
  64. Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
  65. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  66. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
  67. Willowman by Inga Simpson
  68. Circe by Madeline Miller
  69. The Seamstress Of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno and Brigid Maher (trans.)
  70. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  71. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
  72. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  73. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
  74. The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat by Charlie Archbold
  75. Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
  76. A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
  77. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  78. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
  79. Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
  80. Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  81. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  82. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
  83. People who Lunch by Sally Olds
  84. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
  85. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  86. Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon & Krystal De Napoli
  87. Devotion by Hannah Kent
  88. The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves
  89. Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
  90. Time of My Life by Myf Warhurst
  91. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
  92. Wildflowers by Peggy Frew
  93. The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
  94. Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
  95. Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon
  96. The Tilt by Chris Hammer
  97. This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
  98. Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
  99. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  100. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Please note this list combines sales from all Readings shops and our website. Where possible, different editions of titles have been combined to reflect total sales of each title. The list includes all genres. It covers sales from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)

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