Not unexpectedly, given it's meteoric rise at the end of May only a week after publication, our top seller for June was All Fours by Miranda July. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Our reviewer says, 'All Fours is not for the faint heart or the closed mind, but thank goodness because July is shaking up the status quo of reading, writing and living in ways that we desperately need.'

With summer arriving in the northern hemisphere it meant a strong month for international releases, with new fiction from Coco Mellors and Rachel Cusk in our top ten, as well as crime fiction from Donna Leon at number 14. For Australian content we had a powerful Quarterly Essay from leading climate scientist Joëlle Gergis and new crime fiction from former ABC journalist and foreign correspondent Michael Brissenden.

Other than the wonderful regulars to our list, it's worth flagging Murdle by G.T. Karber. Murder mystery puzzles seem to be having a moment! There are currently three in the Murdle series, with a fourth due in October. These fun mystery puzzles are perfect for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a crime.

1. All Fours by Miranda July
2. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck & Michael Hofmann (trans.)
3. Long Island by Colm Tóibín
4. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
5. Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)
6. Parade by Rachel Cusk
7. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
8. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
9. The Forever War by Nick Bryant
10. Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
11. The Way We Are by Hugh Mackay
12. Table for Two by Amor Towles
13. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
14. A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon
15. Quarterly Essay 94: Highway to Hell – Climate Change and Australia’s Future by Joëlle Gergis
16. Smoke by Michael Brissenden
17. What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
18. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
19. Murdle by G.T. Karber
20. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus