Our children's & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week

1. Future Girl by Asphyxia

2. The Story of Australia by Don Watson

3. Story Doctors by Boori Monty Pryor & Rita Sinclair

4. Pig the Monster by Aaron Blabey

5. When Days Tilt by Karen Ginnane

6. Are You There, Buddha? by Pip Harry

7. Henry Hamlet’s Heart by Rhiannon Wilde

8. The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean

9. Grandfather Emu, and How the Kangaroo got her Pouch by Rhonda Collard-Spratt & Jacki Ferro

10. Across the Sea (Wolf Girl, Book 5) by Anh Do

Our gold-medal book this week is the recently-crowned winner of the Readings YA Book Prize, Future Girl! Read all about author Asphyxia’s visually-rich, near-future novel and win here.

As for the rest of our bestsellers, we think you should consider them your comprehensive reading list for the weeks to come! Picture book readers will love Boori Monty Pryor’s poem of connection and healing, a fresh dose of Pig the Pug and a new Dreaming story from Aunty Rhonda Collard- Spratt.

Middle grade readers can enjoy a time-twisting historical fantasy from a debut Australian author, a masterful coming-of-age verse novel from award-winning author Pip Harry and delve deep into Don Watson’s fascinating The Story of Australia.

And finally, after reading Future Girl, teen readers or adult lovers of YA can not go wrong with picking up this gorgeous queer romance about two childhood friends falling in love, or multi-award-winning British novelist Geraldine McCaughrean’s challenging, disturbing and darkly funny new dystopian book.