From Bryce Courtenay and Wimpy Kid to a local home cook’s megaseller, the past 20 years of best-selling Christmas books tell the story of our obsessions.
Can you remember the book you unwrapped at Christmas 20 years ago? There’s a fair chance it was Bryce Courtenay’s, a story of an unlikely friendship between a homeless former lawyer and a young skateboarder who bond over tales about the explorer and his cat.
For the first time, Nielsen BookData has released data about the top-selling Christmas books of the past 20 years. It’s an interesting snapshot of our changing interests and obsessions as a nation of keen readers. Dominant themes include home-grown authors, reads that make us laugh and food. Think Bryce Courtenay and Liane Moriarty,
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