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)