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# Your best books of 2025
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books of the past 12 months. Across six categories – Australian fiction, international fiction, nonfiction, picture books, junior & middle grade books, and young adult books – we share with you our top ten bookseller-voted titles. Then we take it one step further and ask you, our customers, to nominate your top read from each list. After tallying your many, many votes we can now share who you chose as the Best of the Best 2025.
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A luminous novel about a young girl who comes of age as her life is turned upside down.
A celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love.
A unique study of Erin Patterson and our collective obsession with her strange and terrible crime.
A rhyming picture book about bookshops and the space they provide for discovery and delight.
A fully illustrated introduction to the traditional practices of First Nations Australians.
A fun-filled queer rom-com set in a medieval land of knights, lords, ladies and blacksmiths.
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