Here are our 100 bestselling books from the past year!

Of all the authors (as well as illustrators, translators, editors, photographers) listed here…

• 50 are female
• 51 are male
• 45 are Australian

Of all the books listed here….

• 21 are books for children and young adults (including six young adult novels and four Minecraft books)
• 44 are non-fiction books (including 11 food and wine books, 11 memoirs and biographies and two true crime reads)
• 35 are fiction books (including four short-story collections, three crime fictions and seven debuts)

Our most popular authors (who all appear multiple times on the list) are Veronica Roth, Andy Griffiths, Graeme Simsion, Mem Fox, John Green, Christos Tsiolkas and Yotam Ottolenghi, along with illustrator Terry Denton and photographer Jonathan Lovekin!

100. Possum Magic by Mem Fox and illustrated by Julie Vivas
99. A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth by Noel Pearson
98. Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell
97. Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life by David Mitchell
96. The Strays by Emily Bitto
95. The Golden Age by Joan London
94. Looking for Alaska by John Green
93. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
92. So, Anyway…: The Autobiography by John Cleese
91. Piranesi’s Grandest Tour: From Europe to Australia by Colin Holden
90. Private Bill: In Love and War by Barrie Cassidy
89. Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
88. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
87. More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
86. Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris by Kate Knapp
85. Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and illustrated by Judy Horacek
84. The Age: Good Food Under $30 edited by Simone Egger
83. Minecraft: The Official Beginner’s Handbook
82. What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
81. The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
80. The 1,000 Dot-to-Dot Book: Twenty Iconic Portraits to Complete Yourself by Thomas Pavitte
79. Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
78. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
77. The 20/20 Diet Cookbook: Transform Your Life and Body with High-energy Wholefoods by Lola Berry
76. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
75. Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher
74. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
73. Minecraft: The Official Redstone Handbook
72. Minecraft: The Official Combat Handbook
71. A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (translated by Don Bartlett)
70. Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook
69. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
68. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker (translated by Sam Taylor)
67. Cadence by Emma Ayres
66. The 26-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton
65. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
64. I Quit Sugar for Life: 148 Recipes + Meal Plans for Families and Solos by Sarah Wilson (photography by Marija Ivkovic)
63. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
62. Phillippa’s Home Baking by Phillippa Grogan and Richard Cornish (photography by Mark Chew)
61. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
60. Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
59. The Wit of Whitlam by James Carleton
58. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
57. The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism by Anne Manne
56. Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester
55. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
54. The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton
53. The 39-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton
52. James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2015 by James Halliday
51. Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
50. Laurinda by Alice Pung
49. The Age Good Food Guide 2015 edited by Janne Apelgren and Roslyn Grundy
48. Divergent by Veronica Roth
47. The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton
46. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
45. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney
44. The Fast Diet: The Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Mimi Spencer and Michael Mosley
43. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
42. Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low
41. Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action by Bob Brown
40. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
39. Eyrie by Tim Winton
38. A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
37. Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
36. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
35. Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
34. Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
33. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (translated by Arthur Goldhammer)
32. The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
31. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
30. Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
29. Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt
28. Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen by Hetty McKinnon (photography by Luisa Brimble)
27. Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
26. Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (photography by Jonathan Lovekin)
25. Only The Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
24. The Children Act by Ian McEwan
23. All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld
22. Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
21. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel)
20. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
19. Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi (photography by Jonathan Lovekin)
18. Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
17. The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
16. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
15. The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
14. Amnesia by Peter Carey
13. Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage edited by Tim Fisher and Anaïs Lellouche
12. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
11. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Our top ten bestselling books are…

10. The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton
9. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
8. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
7. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned’ by Lena Dunham
6. This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. My Story by Julia Gillard
3. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2. Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi (photography by Jonathan Lovekin)

With our number one spot goes to…

… The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

This extraordinary and savagely beautiful novel won the the 2014 Man Booker Prize. The book has as its heart one of the most infamous episodes of Japanese history: the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in World War II, and is dedicated to the author’s fath­er who worked on the construction of the railway. The Chair of the Man Booker judging panel, A.C. Grayling described the book as ‘profound and often harrowing’.

Ed. note: The 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 Jan 2014 to 31 December 2014.