1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2. One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville
3. Mothermorphosis: Australia’s Best Storytellers Write About Becoming a Mother edited by Monica Dux
4. Mothers and Others edited by Natalie Kon-Yu, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott, Miriam Sved and Maya Linden
5. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
6. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
7. Wrong Way Round: One Country, One Camper Trailer, One Family, One Amazing Adventure by Lorna Hendry
8. Watson’s Pier by Joshua Funder
9. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
10. Dear Life - On Caring for the Elderly (Quarterly Essay 57) by Karen Hitchcock

The top five bestselling books this week are all written by women (in fact, eight out of ten of our bestsellers are by women this week).

The Girl on the Train has jumped to number one spot, continuing its world domination as the thriller everyone is reading this year. Readings favourite My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante also remains popular.

Mothers feature strongly, with One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville, Mothermorphosis: Australia’s Best Storytellers Write About Becoming a Mother and Mothers and Others taking out spots two, three and four.

New to our bestseller list this week is Watson’s Pier by Joshua Funder (Anna Funder’s brother), Wrong Way Round: One Country, One Camper Trailer, One Family, One Amazing Adventure by Lorna Hendry and The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (who doesn’t love a book about bookshops?).