We've run the reports and crunched the numbers. Here are our 100 bestselling books from the past year!

This year's top 100 includes:

• 41 works from Australian authors, almost half of the year's total!
• 32 works of nonfiction
• 11 award winners
• 10 works of fiction in translation
• 9 cookbooks
• 3 novels by Irish author Claire Keegan
• and with just over a month of sales, Helen Garner's latest release, The Season, storms in at #2 for the year!

You can discover our 100 bestselling children's and young adult books from 2024 here.

1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
2. The Season by Helen Garner
3. Juice by Tim Winton
4. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
5. All Fours by Miranda July
6. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
7. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
8. Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)
9. Good Material by Dolly Alderton
10. RecipeTin Eats: Tonight by Nagi Maehashi
11. Taboo by Hannah Ferguson
12. Ottolenghi COMFORT by Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh
13. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
14. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
15. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
16. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
17. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
18. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
19. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
20. Long Island by Colm Tóibín
21. James by Percival Everett
22. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
23. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
24. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
25. Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
26. Dusk by Robbie Arnott
27. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
28. The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
29. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa & Eric Ozawa (trans.)
30. Dog Trip Melbourne by Evi O & Andrew Grune
31. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck & Michael Hofmann (trans.)
32. Atomic Habits by James Clear
33. Good Cooking Every Day by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
34. Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice by Natalie Paull
35. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
36. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
37. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
38. The Chairman's Lounge by Joe Aston
39. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
40. The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
41. Recipetin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
42. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (trans.)
43. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
44. Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
45. Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky
46. What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
47. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
48. You Don't Have to Have a Dream by Tim Minchin
49. The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang & Deborah Smith (trans.)
50. The Men Who Killed the News by Eric Beecher
51. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
52. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
53. Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
54. What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci
55. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
56. The Work by Bri Lee
57. Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
58. Quarterly Essay 95: High Noon - Trump, Harris and America on the Brink by Don Watson
59. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi
60. Tipo 00: The Pasta Cookbook by Andreas Papadakis
61. Things Will Calm Down Soon by Zoë Foster Blake
62. There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
63. Foster by Claire Keegan
64. Day Trip Melbourne by Evi O & Andrew Grune
65. We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida & E. Madison Shimoda (trans.)
66. The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
67. Murdle by G.T. Karber
68. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
69. Women & Children by Tony Birch
70. Want by Gillian Anderson
71. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
72. Tarts Anon: Sweet and Savoury Tart Brilliance by Gareth Whitton with Catherine Way
73. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood
74. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
75. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
76. The Forever War by Nick Bryant
77. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot by Lucinda Froomes Price
78. The Ledge by Christian White
79. The Shortest History of Ecomonics by Andrew Leigh
80. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
81. Normal People by Sally Rooney
82. Babel by R.F Kuang
83. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & Ken Liu (trans.)
84. What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
85. Dune by Frank Herbert
86. Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
87. The Secret History by Donna Tarrt
88. All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
89. Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine
90. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
91. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein (trans.)
92. Quarterly Essay 96: Minority Report - The New Shape of Australian Politics by George Megalogenis
93. Always Was, Always Will Be by Thomas Mayo
94. Uses for Obsession: A (Chef’s) Memoir by Ben Shewry
95. The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink & Charlotte Collins (trans.)
96. Cherrywood by Jock Serong
97. Wholesome by Sarah by Sarah Pound
98. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
99. Time of the Child by Niall Williams
100. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

Titles we loved that were just outside the top 100 were: Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak, Parade by Rachel Cusk, We Are the Stars by Gina Chick, Table for Two by Amor Towles and Murriyang: Song of Time by Stan Grant.

Please note this list combines sales from all Readings shops and our website. Where applicable, different editions of titles have been combined to reflect total sales of each title. The list covers sales from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.