See here for methodology. Books are disqualified if less than 50% of them is set in Australia.
These numbers are crunched by hand, not by AI.
(Scheduling this to go live quite early, to catch the Australians.)
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 1,076,575 | 7,890 |
| The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | 580,241 | 8,169 |
| The Husband’s Secret | Liane Moriarty | 707,897 | 6,692 |
| The Light Between Oceans | M. L. Stedman | 470,982 | 7,908 |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 359,464 | 7,901 |
| What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty | 498,692 | 4,987 |
| Nine Perfect Strangers | Liane Moriarty | 461,968 | 4,160 |
| I Am the Messenger / The Messenger | Markus Zusak | 166,742 | 6,958 |
I confess that I had not heard of Liane Moriarty, but she clearly scores very well here, with Big Little Lies far ahead on Goodreads and fourth in a close race on LibraryThing. Sorry to those who were hoping to see Nevil Shute (On the Beach was 21st in my ranking and A Town Like Alice 23rd) or Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang was 30th, Oscar and Lucinda 31st) on the list.
I disqualified only two books. I was puzzled to see The Book Thief (which won in Germany) topping the overall poll, but I had forgotten that Markus Zusak is actually Australian. And more than half of The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton is set in England.
Next: North Korea, Syria, Mali and Burkina Faso.
Asia: India | China | Indonesia | Pakistan | Bangladesh (revised) | Russia | Japan | Philippines (revised) | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Thailand | Myanmar | South Korea | Iraq | Afghanistan | Yemen | Uzbekistan | Malaysia | Saudi Arabia | Nepal | North Korea | Syria
Americas: USA | Brazil (revised) | Mexico | Colombia | Argentina | Canada | Peru | Venezuela
Africa: Nigeria | Ethiopia (revised) | Egypt | DR Congo | Tanzania | South Africa | Kenya | Sudan | Uganda | Algeria | Morocco | Angola | Mozambique | Ghana | Madagascar | Côte d’Ivoire | Cameroon | Niger | Mali
Europe: Russia | Türkiye | Germany | France | UK | Italy | Spain | Poland | Ukraine
Oceania: Australia