2019 Bestsellers at Brunswick Bound

Brunswickians took the following ten books to heart last year.  They read them, raved about them and bought them for friends.  It really was wonderful and reaffirming to see how much love for stories and ideas there was in the 'hood in 2019.  Let's hope all that keeps us in good stead for the troubling days ahead.
In contrast to 2018, we had a huge resurgence in sales for Fiction - and even more interesting, all but one of those (Normal People by Sally Rooney) was written by an Australian author.  Love this!  So great to see local authors Angela Savage (Mother of Pearl) and Christos Tsiolkas (Damascus) there in the mix.
It was no surprise that Dark Emu was our bestselling book of the year.  This book is starting conversations that are being continued by books such as Sand Talk, The Yield, Songspirals and Welcome to Country - all indigenous titles that appeared in our Top 25 for the year.  And we can't wait to see even more indigenous voices being published this year thanks to the success and interest this book has created.
And it always heartens us to see Grungewick by local Michael Winkler on our bestselling books for the year.  Self-published, self-distributed and a bloody good read, Grungewick is a book that you can buy for almost anyone in your family.  So good to see local history on (and flying off) our shelves.

So here is the list.  How many did you read?

1. Dark Emu
by Bruce Pascoe

2. Damascus
by Christos Tsiolkas

3. Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton

4. Young Dark Emu
by Bruce Pascoe

5. No Friend But the Mountains
by Behrouz Boochani

6. No One is Too Small To Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg

7. Too Much Lip
by Melissa Lucashenko

8. Normal People
by Sally Rooney

9. Grungewick
by Michael Winkler

10. Mother of Pearl
by Angela Savage






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