Most read stories
Most read stories over the past seven days
- Pantera Press acquires “The Curator” by Jonathan Butler
- Wilson resigns from UQP in protest at “Bila” cancellation
- Ractliffe joins The Pilkington Agency, expanded role for Cottrell
- Arts participation survey 2025: More people reading at least once a week across all formats
- Wright leaves Leading Edge as part of restructure
- A&U acquires Split Enz history
- DANZ Children’s Book Award 2026 shortlists announced
- Allen & Unwin acquires Zoe Foster Blake’s “Group Chat”
- Big Day of Books Perth 2026 program announced
- Mossop steps down at SWF
Most read stories over the past month
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Wynn-Williams’s book cover blurred out at British Book Awards
- Staff changes at Thames & Hudson
- Sworder wins ABIA Book of the Year
- Hachette launches new Letterwing imprint
- Heiss resigns from University of Queensland
- Simon & Schuster acquires Vasiliou’s “Better Man”
- PRH staff departures
- Australian Book Design Awards 2026 winners announced
- Simon & Schuster acquires three Hammer novels
Most read stories over the past 12 months
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- Hachette acquires McNab’s true crime ‘Recipe for Murder’
- Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
- Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
- ILF Day theme announced
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
- A&U acquires new crime novel from Brown
Most read stories since 1 January 2026
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- A&U acquires book based on “The Inventors” series
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
- Writing Australia announces North America Publishers’ Program delegates
- Local authors feature in UK and US shortlists
Categories used for most read stories:
- local news
- international news
Most read features
Most read feature articles over the past month
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- Susannah Bowen: “It’s frustrating to not have a central place for customers to go to buy a book if they prefer to support local”
- “I can almost hear the em-dashes”: Impressions from MWF opening night
- The changing shape of the pathway: The entry to entry-level roles in publishing
- Fiction Over Reality on bookshop life in Queensland’s Wellington Point
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Maria Takolander on “The End of Romance”
- Chris Ames on “I Made This Just for You”
- Walking the literary and literal landscape: Introducing the 2026 VIPs
- Chris Ames recommends
Most read feature articles over the past 12 months
- Call for submissions: A how-to guide for responding to government
- Recommended reads for Father’s Day
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Bayt Al-Hikma: the first library in the Islamic world
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
- Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Jen Topham
Most read rights news stories
Most read stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Simon & Schuster acquires Vasiliou’s “Better Man”
- Simon & Schuster acquires three Hammer novels
- UWA Publishing acquires Sniff Squad series
- Allen & Unwin acquires Wills’s “Dopamining”
- Pantera Press acquires “The Curator” by Jonathan Butler
- Christmas Press acquires Brett’s “The Medusa Problem”
- PRH acquires Leighton-Dore YA graphic novel
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ryan’s “Eleven”
- Pink Shorts Press acquires Ball’s “A Map and Other Parts”
- A&U acquires Split Enz history
Most read reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing), stars, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum
- (fiction): Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (picture_book): Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by A Kirk
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (younger_readers): The Making of Martha Mayfield (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Tenille White
- (fiction): The Farm (Jessica Mansour-Nahra, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (picture_book): Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Caitlin Hadrill
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (younger_readers): Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Kathryn Wheaton Grierson
- (fiction): Very Impressive for Your Age (Eleanor Kirk, A&U), stars, reviewed by Heidi Maier
- (nonfiction): The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA), stars, reviewed by Michael Kitson
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (young_adult): A Guide to Falling Off the Map (Zanni L Arnot, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (nonfiction): Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth), stars, reviewed by Ellie Pope
- (nonfiction): 58 Facets: On law, violence and revolution (Marika Sosnowski, MUP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas