1. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
3. Good Material by Dolly Alderton
4. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
5. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
6. Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
8. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
9. Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
10. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa & Eric Ozawa (trans.)
11. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
12. Atomic Habits by James Clear
13. All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
14. The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
15. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
16. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
17. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum & Shanna Tan (trans.)
18. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
19. Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
20. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Welcome to 2024 and our first bestsellers list of the year! January is a month for summer reading, using gift vouchers for that book you've had your eye on or just wandering your favourite bookshop for inspiration. Our bestsellers reflect what an exciting end to the year it was with amazing books from many outstanding authors. The list was wide-ranging and included regulars, prize-winners, fiction in translation, a TV adaptation, as well as motivational books.

Shooting straight to number one was the 2023 Booker Prize-winning Prophet Song by Paul Murray, a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, which can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past. It is an exhilarating and confrontational portrait of a country – and an ordinary family – on the brink of catastrophe. Put this on your 'to be read' pile if you haven't already. Also on our list for the first time and a Booker Prize shorlistee was The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, a funny, wise and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown.

While Irish authors have a strong presence on our list not only taking out the number one and two positions but also with books by Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day and a regular to our bestsellers Small Things Like These, there is a raft of wonderful Australian books to tempt. These include the winner of The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2023 All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien, The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas, Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder and two books by Trent Dalton, his latest, Lola in the Mirror, and Boy Swallows Universe which is having a resurgence due in part to it's serialisation on Netflix.

2024 is shaping up to be another fabulous year of reading to look forward to. You can find some of the forthcoming highlights here. Enjoy!