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Bestselling Australian books 2022

Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles

  1. Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
  2. Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)
  3. Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette)
  4. Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)
  5. The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams, Affirm)
  6. The Murder Rule (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
  7. The Orphans (Fiona McIntosh, Michael Joseph)
  8. Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
  9. The Tilt (Chris Hammer, Allen & Unwin)
  10. Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins)

Top 10 Australian nonfiction titles

  1. RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan)
  2. The Happiest Man on Earth (Eddie Jaku, Macmillan)
  3. My Dream Time (Ash Barty, HarperCollins)
  4. The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley)
  5. Love Stories (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins)
  6. The 10:10 Diet (Sarah Di Lorenzo, Simon & Schuster)
  7. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Eddie Betts, S&S)
  8. She’s on the Money (Victoria Devine, Random House)
  9. Bulldozed (Niki Savva, Scribe)
  10. The Battle of Long Tan (Peter FitzSimons, Hachette)

Top 10 Australian children’s and YA titles (includes both fiction and nonfiction)

  1. Barefoot Kids (Scott Pape, HarperCollins)
  2. The 156-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Macmillan)
  3. Open Wide and Say Arrrgh! (The Bad Guys #15) (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
  4. Crash Course (Wolf Girl #7) (Anh Do, A&U)
  5. Others?! (The Bad Guys #16) (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
  6. The 143-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Macmillan)
  7. Animal Train (Wolf Girl #6) (Anh Do, A&U)
  8. Treehouse Tales (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Macmillan)
  9. Into the Wild (Wolf Girl #1) (Anh Do, A&U)
  10. Bluey: Bluey and Bingo’s Fancy Restaurant Cookbook (Puffin)

© Nielsen BookScan 2023. Period covered: 2 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, ranked by volume.
*Combined Editions

 

Category: Think Australian bestsellers