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The 10 bestselling DVDs at Readings in 2017
Here are our 10 bestselling DVDs from the past year.
(We’ve also compiled our 100 bestselling books of 2017 and our 10 bestselling CDs of 2017.)
Our bestselling DVDs of last year reveal our customers’ love of historical dramas, crime mysteries and cats!
Ceyda Torun’s documentary about the cats of Istanbul, Kedi was a favourite with staff as much as it was with customers this year, as was Taika Waititi. We’re so pleased to see the New Zealander listed…
Start your year with some feminist sci-fi
Get inspired this year with one of these kick-ass book recommendations from our digital marketing manager, Lian Hingee.
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman’s brilliant novel about the corrosive nature of power took home the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Set in a not-too-distant future where young women have evolved the ability generate and conduct electricity through their fingertips, The Power is full of observations on gender politics, power, religion and violence.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Costa book awards winners 2017
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Costa Book Awards.
These awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland, across five different categories.
The 2017 winners for each category are…
First novel
The winner is Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Stories by Helen Garner
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Dry by Jane Harper
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The New Year is traditionally seen as a chance for a fresh start, so it’s…
Our children's and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Dog Man and Cat Kid (The Adventures of Dog Man Book 4) by Dav Pilkey
Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls: Volume 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Never Fear (Friday Barnes Book 8) by R.A. Spratt
See you all in 2018
2017 has been another wonderful year in books, and we’ve loved sharing them all with you.
To everyone who dropped by our shops, attended our events, read our blog, flicked through a copy of the Readings Monthly, donated to the Readings Foundation, listened to the Readings Podcast, came to visit us at Melbourne Writers Festival (or one of the many other fabulous festivals and events we were involved with throughout the year), liked one of our #BookFaceFridays…
Our literary resolutions for 2018
Our staff share their literary resolutions for the new year.
‘My literary resolution is to finish reading my way through the masters of the short story of which I have dipped in and out of over the last few years. I am coming for you Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence.’
– Marie Matteson, buyer at Readings Carton
‘This isn’t strictly a resolution, but as I’m a 2018 judge for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, I’ll…
What we're reading over summer
Our staff share the books they’re planning to read over summer.
You can also find plenty of summer reading recommendations over on the Readings Podcast! Listen to our picks for adults here, and our picks for kids and teens here.
‘There’s a big stack of books I’m excitedly planning to make my way through over the summer months, including They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward and The…
Which Australian YA book should you read over summer?
The sun is high in the sky, the flies are buzzing, you’re sick of your family and you don’t want to watch the cricket – it sounds like it’s time to seek out some quality Aussie young adult fiction. Here is our suggested LoveOzYA summer reading.
(For more recommended LoveOzYA, check out our collection of Australian YA fiction from the past year here.)
Because you want to escape the heat…
Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meghan Spooner
The middle…
My summer reading list
Carlton bookseller Britt Munro shares what’s on her summer reading list – poetry, philosophy, fiction and more.
South and West by Joan Didion
I’ve recently started this book – a collection of notes taken by Didion on her trip through the American South in the summer of 1970. Her ability to conjure a wrenching picture through small, seemingly casual detail is as acute as ever, and her knowledge of history saturates the present that she writes of. I suspect it…
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