Intermezzo

October saw Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo hold strong at #1, with an impressive 5,324 copies sold across its special edition hardback and paperback formats (+1,456). Close on its heels is a new entry from Tim Winton — Juice — captivating readers with 4,971 copies sold. Rounding out the top three, Australia’s beloved Nagi Maehashi shines with RecipeTin Eats: Tonight, a must-have cookbook that continues to win hearts.

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Cover (Barcode) Title Community sold Rank

9780571365470
Intermezzo (& Intermezzo special edition) 5324 1
Juice
9781761344893
Juice 4971 2
Tonight
9781761561832
RecipeTin Eats: Tonight | Dinners for Every Night of the Week from Australia’s Favourite Cook. 3157 3
We Solve Murders
9780241608371
We Solve Murders 2287 4
Gna Chick
9781761630248
We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go 2278 5
You Don't Have to Dream
9781761620058
You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious 2126 6
Dusk
9781761560941
Dusk 1979 7
The Valley (#4 Nell Buchanan)
9781761470882
The Valley (#4 Nell Buchanan) 1970 8
Here One Moment
9781760785031
Here One Moment 1742 9
Things Will Calm Down Soon
9781922928023
Things Will Calm Down Soon 1524 11
Tell Me Everything
9780241634356
Tell Me Everything 1482 12
The Ledge
9781923022829
The Ledge 1138 13
Ottolenghi COMFORT
9781785038914
Ottolenghi COMFORT 1002 14
Nexus
9781911717096
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI 919 15
Stone Yard Devotional
9781761069499
Stone Yard Devotional 904 16
The Golden Road
9781408864425
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World 886 17
Salad for Days
9781922616777
Salad for Days: Breezy Ways With Veg, All Year Round 883 18

9781398709430
Midnight and Blue 841 19
Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir
9781922616845
Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir 819 20
There are Rivers in the Sky
9780241435021
There are Rivers in the Sky 797 21
All Fours
9781838853457
All Fours 788 22
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB)
9781761561825
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth 757 23

9781914240485
Women Living Deliciously 753 24
Odyssey
9780241486368
Odyssey 747 25

9781761471780
The Waiting: The Brand New Ballard & Bosch Thriller 745 26
Cherrywood
9781460765357
Cherrywood 731 27

9781761470899
Rapture 726 28
Quarterly Essay 95
9781760644406
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink: Quarterly Essay 95 724 29
In Too Deep (#29 Jack Reacher)
9780857505606
In Too Deep (#29 Jack Reacher) 697 30
Percy Jackson
9780241691700
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess 664 31
Good Cooking Every Day
9781761263330
Good Cooking Every Day: Simple recipes. Beautiful menus. All year round. 639 32
The Midwatch
9781761212369
The Midwatch 631 33
Kasey Chambers
9781761451027
Kasey Chambers Just Don't Be a D**khead: And Other Profound Things I've Learnt 599 34
The Fallen Woman
9781761049293
The Fallen Woman 592 35

9781848127272
The Wild Robot 582 36
Want
9781526657947
Want: Submitted by Anonymous 569 37

9781035046256
Before We Forget Kindness 563 39
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
9781035051052
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir 561 40
Hot-Mess Wimpy Kid
9780143778479
Hot Mess: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (19) 560 41

9780702268779
Out of the Box: A one-stop guide to navigating neurodivergence 554 42
Death at the Sign of the Rook
9780857526588
Death at the Sign of the Rook 548 43
Mean Streak
9781460765807
Mean Streak: A Moral Vacuum, a Dodgy Debt Generator and a Multi-Billion-Dollar Government Shake Down –the powerful story of Robodebt from the award-winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt 543 44
A Periodic Tale
9780733340345
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey memoir, the life-long experiment of Australia's favourite science champion Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, for fans of David Attenborough, Adam Spencer and Brian Cox 521 45
A Bit on the Side
9781761267406
A Bit on the Side 520 46
Playground
9781529154320
Playground 511 47
The Life Impossible
9781838855581
The Life Impossible 500 48
Creation Lake
9781787334380
Creation Lake 497 49
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
9781529936711
We'll Prescribe You a Cat 497 50