- Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
- The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
- The Good People by Hannah Kent
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- Fucking Apostrophes by Simon Griffin
- Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy’s son by Mark Colvin
- Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
Clementine Ford’s searing memoir/manifesto is our bestselling book of last week. Our reviewer writes that Fight Like a Girl is ‘explosive, hilarious and incredibly accessible without dumbing down the big theoretical issues too much’ – making it a perfect gift for a teenager as much as an adult.
Three of our favourite Australian novels of 2016 also appear on our bestsellers list this week.
Hannah Kent’s second novel The Good People is a moving parable about ignorance and fear set in nineteenth-century rural Ireland, and was voted one of our top ten fiction books of 2016. Jane Harper’s addictive crime thriller The Dry was eagerly passed around by our staff; find a collection of rave reviews from them here. And Zoë Morrison’s exquisite, extraordinary debut Music and Freedom was named the winner of this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.
