Our top ten bestsellers of the week

1. The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
2. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
3. Credlin & Co: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself by Aaron Patrick
4. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
6. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
7. Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
8. Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
9. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
10. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Our bestselling book for last week is The Shock of Recognition, a new memoir from public intellectual Barry Jones. Our review writes, ‘The author’s style is fluent, lucid, unpretentious and friendly with dashes of wry humour. A reading must!’ (You can read the full review here.)

Other great non-fiction books from Australian authors include Aaron Patrick’s controversial exploration of recent politics (Credlin & Co); David Kilcullen’s clear-eyed investigation into the failures of the ‘war on terror’ (Blood Year); and, Magda Szubanski’s revelatory memoir (Reckoning).