These are the books that everybody is buying this Christmas:
Nonfiction
- Gallop! (Rufus Seder, Workman)
- Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern)
- 4 Ingredients (Kim McCosker, Rachael Bermingham, Meymott Enterprises & Press International)
- Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
- Vietnam (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)
- Please Explain (Karl Kruszelnicki, HarperCollins)
- Turquoise: A Chef's Journey through Turkey(Greg & Lucy Malouf, Hardie Grant)
- Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks, Pan Macmillan)
- Secrets of the Red Lantern (Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen, Mark Jensen, Murdoch)
- Nigella Express: 130 Recipes for Good Food, Fast (Nigella Lawson, Chatto & Windus)
- The Dangerous Book for Boys: Australian Edition (Conn Iggulden, HarperCollins Australia)
- The Daring Book for Girls (Andrea Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz, HarperCollins)
- New Europe (Michael Palin, Orion)
- 1000 Great Places in Australia to Explore (Explore Australia)
- Eric Clapton: The Autobiography (Eric Clapton, Century)
- Kouta: The Boy in Blue (Anthony Koutoufides & Jim Wilson, Hardie Grant Books)
- In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures(Helen Mirren, Orion)
- The Chaser Annual 2007 (Text)
Fiction
- The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett, Profile Books)
- The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany, HarperCollins)
- The Lost Dog (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
- Road to Paradise (Paullina Simons, HarperCollins)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury)
- The Gathering (Anne Enright, Vintage)
- The Memory Room (Christopher Koch, Knopf)
- The Landscape of Farewell (Alex Miller, A&U)
- The Six Sacred Stones (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)
- The Persimmon Tree (Bryce Courtenay, Viking)