We've run the reports and crunched the numbers. Here are our 100 bestselling books from the past year!
This year's top 100 includes:
- 37 works of nonfiction, including 11 biographies
- 36 books from Australian authors
- 15 novels in translation
- 13 award winners
- 10 works of crime fiction
- 3 works by Helen Garner, including her collaboration with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes, which storms in at #1 with less than two months of sales!
Find the full list below, and then discover the 100 bestselling kids and young adult books of 2025!
1. The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein
2. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
4. Flesh by David Szalay
5. Last One Out by Jane Harper
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
7. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
8. The Season by Helen Garner
9. Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
10. A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
11. James by Percival Everett
12. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Roz Schwartz
13. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
14. The Impossible Fortune (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 5) by Richard Osman
15. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
16. Earthquake: The Election That Shook Australia by Niki Savva
17. Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton
18. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
19. Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
20. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
21. Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
22. Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
23. Onxy Storm (The Empyrean, Book 3) by Rebecca Yarros
24. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
26. All Fours by Miranda July
27. Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
28. On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland
29. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
30. RecipeTin Eats: Tonight by Nagi Maehashi
31. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
32. Heart the Lover by Lily King
33. Atomic Habits by James Clear
34. Strange Pictures by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion
35. Katabasis by R.F Kuang
36. The Names by Florence Knapp
37. Ikigai by Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
38. The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan
39. I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena
40. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always been Against This by Omar El Akkad
41. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
42. How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978–1998 by Helen Garner
43. Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
44. The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
45. Kitchen Confidential (25th anniversary edition) by Anthony Bourdain
46. A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose
47. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Guiffre
48. Unbury the Dead by Fiona Hardy
49. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
50. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
51. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
52. Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, Book 1) by Rebecca Yarros
53. The Hiding Place by Kate Mildenhall
54. Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion
55. Time of the Child by Niall Williams
56. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
57. Clown Town by Mick Herron
58. Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
59. Plantology: The Essential Guide to Better Gardens by Teena Crawford & Lisa Ellis
60. RecipeTin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
61. Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine
62. Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams
63. Babel by R.F. Kuang
64. The Shortest History of the United States by Don Watson
65. Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place by Kate Grenville
66. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
67. The Thursday Murder Club (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 1) by Richard Osman
68. Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
69. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
70. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hur
71. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
72. The Rot by Evelyn Araluen
73. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
74. This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
75. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
76. Quarterly Essay 100: The Good Fight – What Does Labor Stand For? by Sean Kelly
77. All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
78. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
79. Quarterly Essay 98: Hard New World - Our Post-American Future by Hugh White
80. Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders by Bob Brown
81. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
82. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
83. Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh
84. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, translated by Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe
85. Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray
86. Normal People by Sally Rooney
87. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
88. Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated by Daniel Bowles
89. Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
90. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
91. Pissants by Brandon Jack
92. How They Get You: Sneaky Everyday Economics and Smart Ways to Hold onto Your Money by Chris Kohler
93. Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy
94. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes
95. Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savour, Together by Hetty Lui McKinnon
96. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
97. We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris
98. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
99. Signs of Damage by Diana Reid
100. The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
Please note this list combines sales from all Readings shops and our website. Where applicable, different editions of titles have been combined to reflect total sales of each title. The list covers sales from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.
