The February Best Sellers appeared like a well shuffled deck of cards, lots of familiar faces but in a different order. About a dozen new titles featured with The Women selling the most of the new titles. Trent Dalton’s Lola in the Mirror retained number one spot selling 1,385 copies (-576). Likewise The Bee Sting maintained second place with 1,372 (-490) copies. It seems even the best seller list is susceptible to the recent Taylor Swift phenomenon. Her Little Golden Book Biography took third spot (up from 17th last month) with 1290 sales (+530).
Best Sellers
‘Lola in the Mirror’, Top Seller for January 2024
Trent Dalton’s Lola in the Mirror jumped back up to number one spot in January selling 1,961 copies (-3,204). The Bee Sting moved up to second place selling 1, 862 copies (-1,463).
Good Material moved up from fourth to third place with 1862 sales (-1,429).
‘Question 7’, Top Seller for December 2023
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan retained number one spot in December selling 5,693 ( +1,789) copies. Trent Dalton’s Lola in the Mirror also maintained its second position selling 5,165 (+2,200).
Prophet Song moved all the way from the bottom of the list last month to third position selling 5,092 (+4,535).
‘Question 7’, Top Seller for November 2023
Trent Dalton’s latest offering, Lola in the Mirror (PB) took number one spot in October selling 5,456 copies
This was followed by another title new to the list, Killing for Country: A Family Story, by David Marr. This sold 2,897 copies.
The Seven, the latest thriller by Chris Hammer came in third with 2,072 sales.
Lola in the Mirror, Top Seller for October 2023
Trent Dalton’s latest offering, Lola in the Mirror (PB) took number one spot in October selling 5,456 copies
This was followed by another title new to the list, Killing for Country: A Family Story, by David Marr. This sold 2,897 copies.
The Seven, the latest thriller by Chris Hammer came in third with 2,072 sales.
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 – Top Seller September 2023
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 took top seller spot for September, coming to the list with 3,137 sales
This was followed by The 169-Storey Treehouse,the last book in the worldwide bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. This sold 2,389 copies.
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need maintained third place with 1,982 sales (-457).
Circle Community Best Selling Books August 2023
Anna Funder’s Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life maintains top spot in the August Best Sellers with 3,125 copies sold (-1,196).
This was followed by Ann Patchett’s Pandemic Novel , Tom Lake new to our list with 2,695 sales.
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need dropped to third place with 2439 sales (-1,629).
Circle Community Best Selling Books July 2023
New to the list was Anna Funder’s Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life selling 4,321 copies. This was followed closely by The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need which sold 4,068 copies (-1,593). Moving up from fourth place last month was Yellowface with 2,300 (+977).
Circle Community Best Selling Books June 2023
Taking top seller spot for June with 5,661 sales (+2,425) was, ‘The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need’. Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the Voice should be enshrined in the Constitution, and how it might function to improve policies affecting Indigenous communities, and genuinely close the gap on inequalities at the most basic level of human dignity. ‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’ by Pip Williams dropped from first to second position selling 1,839 copies (-362) and popular title, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ jumped back in to number three with 1,348 sales (+313).
Circle Community Best Selling Books May 2023
‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’ by Pip Williams held the lead for May selling 3,497 copies (- 2,201).
Second place and new to the list was, ‘The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need’ selling 3,236 copies
Also new to the list was the 8th edition of the Seven Sisters, ‘Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt’ which sold 2,122 copies.