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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...

So we took a look at what sold last year and this is what we saw.  Our Top 10 bestsellers were... 1.    Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo 2.    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson 3.    Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 4.    Tinkering by (the late and great) John Clarke 5.    The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur 6.    Grungewick by Michael Winkler 7.    The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundahti Roy 8.    Quarterly Essay: Moral Panic 101 by Benjamin Law 9.    How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb 10. Punk Girls by Liz Ham It was no surprise that Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls took the #1 spot.  It featured heavily on our bestsellers' lists throughout the year.  What was more interesting was that only one fiction title made the list and the heavy presence of non-fiction books wi...