Brunswick Bound's 2018 Bestsellers

Another year over and it's time to have a look at what Brunswick was reading this year.
Almost all non-fiction titles on the list this year with the exception of Sally Rooney's much lauded Normal People.  (I hear she might have something coming in 2019, so keep your eyes peeled for that...).
Interestingly enough, only 4 books on the list were actually published this year.
Dark Emu was by far our bestselling book this year, which is fantastic.  Originally published in 2014, the new edition of this very important book reignited the conversation about what we truly understand about Aboriginal culture and was followed up by Marcia Langton's Welcome to Country and Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia (which also features on our Top 10 list), which also made their way onto many of your bookshelves.
Self-publishing was represented, with Grungewick sitting solidly in the middle of our list.  Editor Michael Winkler was also part of our First Chapters event series this year.  It was so great to hear about the impetus of how this book came about and to get a better understanding of the shady history of Brunswick.
And two amazing kids books just wouldn't quit this year.  Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is the book that spawned a thousand copycats, but gee, we needed them.  Similarly necessary for everybody's bookshelf, whether 2 or 102, was All The Ways To Be Smart by local author and illustrator team, Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys.  May these two ladies continue creating together (already we have the amazing Under the Love Umbrella and The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade) long into the future...

Here it is.  Your favourite books of 2018.

1. Dark Emu (new edition 2018)
by Bruce Pascoe (Magabala Books)

 2. Simple (2018)
by Yotam Ottolenghi (Penguin Books)




by Mark Manson (Pan Macmillan)

 4. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (2017)
by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo (Particular Books)


5. Grungewick
edited by Michael Winkler (self-published)

 6. Normal People (2018)
by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)



7. Sapiens (2015)
by Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage Books) 

 8. The Trauma Cleaner (2017)
by Sarah Krasnostein (Text Publishing)



9. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia (2018)
edited by Anita Heiss (Black Inc)

 10. All The Ways To Be Smart (2018)
by Davina Bell and illustrated by Allison Colpoys (Scribble Books)

 Thank you Brunswick for supporting these terrific books and for supporting independent bookshops like us.  Look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

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