The 100 bestselling books of 2022
We’ve run the reports and done the math. Here are our 100 bestselling books from the past year.
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
- Bulldozed by Niki Savva
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
- Lessons by Ian McEwan
- Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
- Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
- Around the Table by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
- Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Sunbathing by Isobel Beech
- Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- Love Stories by Trent Dalton
- Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
- Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
- Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- RecipeTin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
- Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
- All About Love by Bell Hooks
- The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- My Dream Time by Ash Barty
- Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid Delaney
- Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
- Not Now, Not Ever edited by Julia Gillard
- Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
- Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
- The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The 156-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
- The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
- The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
- Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear
- The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
- Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf by Katharine Murphy
- I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, Anton Hur, (trans.)
- Yiayia Next Door by Daniel and Luke Mancuso
- She and her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
- Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- Willowman by Inga Simpson
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Seamstress Of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno and Brigid Maher (trans.)
- Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
- Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
- The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat by Charlie Archbold
- Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
- A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
- Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
- Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
- People who Lunch by Sally Olds
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon & Krystal De Napoli
- Devotion by Hannah Kent
- The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves
- Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
- Time of My Life by Myf Warhurst
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- Wildflowers by Peggy Frew
- The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
- Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon
- The Tilt by Chris Hammer
- This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
- Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Please note this list combines sales from all Readings shops and our website. Where possible, different editions of titles have been combined to reflect total sales of each title. The list includes all genres. It covers sales from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.