Despite a decline in overall book sales, Australian cookbooks and local authors dominated the bestseller lists in 2024. RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi topped the charts for the second year in a row, while genre fiction and older releases saw success thanks to BookTok.
Australians continued their love for cookbooks and local authors in 2024, with RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi topping the bestseller list for the second consecutive year. Her two cookbooks sold almost 300,000 copies in less than three months, making it the highest-selling title of the year. \While genre fiction and cookbooks saw growth, overall sales in the Australian book market dropped in 2024. The volume of titles sold dropped by 1.3 percent from 69.8 million to 68.
9 million, representing a decline in value of about $40 million to $1.29 billion. \Despite the decline, Australian authors dominated the top spots on the bestseller list. The top three spots were claimed by Australian authors, with local publishing teams. \BookTok continued to shape fiction sales, with older releases and genre novels dominating the top 10. Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel and Sarah J. Maas’ 2015 novel both performed strongly, boosted by new editions and film adaptations. \The data captures printed books only. The Australian Publishers Association chief executive Patrizia Di Biase-Dyson highlighted significant growth in the e-book and audiobook markets, noting that more than 150 million library loans were recorded in the latest national borrowing data
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