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Australia Top 10
Book buyers Down Under championed an investment manual, with imported fiction and two male self- help titles also prominent
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Plenty to give as Manson leads angry young men
Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck has become, alongside Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, the poster child for the emerging male “self-help” trend. Both have alsoave also excelled in audio, a medium Nielsen Book identified to be most popular cce
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among young men. Its success Down Under can more specifi- cally be credited to home-grown Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth,sworth, who Instagrammed the book in 2017. It hasn’t dropped out of the top 20 since.
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Jordan Peterson may not exactly
fit everyone’s image of a YouTuber, but the Canadian professor’s 12 Rules for Life—in sixth place in Australia–has sold more copies to date than Zoella’s Girl Online
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Bestseller Lists Australia Top 10
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A large footprint
of the charts
Scott Pape’s personal finance guide Te Barefoot Investor has barely left the Australian number one since 2016. With nearly 900,000 copies sold to date, and more than 362,000 sold this year alone, it is by far the biggest-selling non-fiction title Down Under since records began. If nothing else, the book has made Pape a rich man—it’s earned almost $20m in total.
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Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of
Auschwitz is the biggest- selling fiction title of the year, with 94,688 copies sold. Te UK is the only Anglophone territory The Tattooist hasn’t
conquered...yet
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Gail force Honeyman is sole Scot in fiction top 50
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine has packed her trunk and jetted into several of the world’s bestseller charts, with the Costa First Novel Award winner scoring first place in both the UK and Ireland for 2018 to date, and claiming seventh place in Australia and New Zealand. Though UK authors generally perform strongly in the Aussie fiction charts, Gail Honeyman is the only Scottish representa- tive in the 2018 top 50.
Aussie book buyers flock to The Shepherd’s Hut
home- grown fiction
With New Zealand-born, Australian resident Heather Morris in fourth place with Te Tattooist of Auschwitz, Tim Winton can claim to be the highest-charting home-grown fiction author in the bestseller chart, with Te Shepherd’s Hut in ninth place for the year to date, having sold 67,513 copies. Te two-time Man Booker shortlistee’s 29th novel is unashamedly Australian: it is a coming-of-age tale following a young boy called Jaxie, who is running for his life across the West Australian saltlands. Like Jane Harper’s mega-hit crime titles Te Dry and Force of Nature, the unfor- giving Australian landscape is almost becoming a literary trend of its own.
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2 Storey time
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 104-Storey Treehouse is the top children’s title of the year, with 171,205 copies sold. The duo’s UK World Book Day title was also a hit Down Under, in 16th place overall.
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Psychological thrillers may not be Finnished...
The influence of Paula Hawkins’ chart-topper The Girl on the Train is still being felt, with A J Finn’s psychological thriller The Woman in the Window also becoming a début best- seller around the world. The Australian book-buying public seems to have taken a partic- ular shine to the Hitchcockian agoraphobia-themed mystery: 80,842 copies have been sold there—a little less than double the UK hardback’s volume.
8 Jojo trilogy is Still going...
Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You trilogy has collectively sold more than 625,000 copies Down Under—and final title Still Me has shifted 67,853 units so far in 2018.
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Colouring aseasyaasy as ABC for TV network
The adult colouring tr have sparkled briefly on the global stage back in 2015, boosting illustrators such as Millie Marotta and Joanna Basford to worldwide stardom. But everything calmed down relatively quickly. The ABC channel’s colouring book, in 10th place in the Australian bestseller charts, is very much for kids, with TV favourite Peppa Pig and UK children’s laureate Lauren Child’s Charlie and Lola featuring.
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