Whitcoulls Top 100 List 2021/2022
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Whitcoulls have just announced their top 100 books as voted by customers for 2021/2022.
There are 13 books by New Zealand authors on the list this year, up from 10 last year, 7 in 2019, and 2 in 2018. The full list is below, with New Zealand titles/authors in bold.
1 The Seven Sisters Series, Lucinda Riley
2 Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
3 Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
4 A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Sarah J. Maas
5 Outlander Series, Diana Gabaldon
6 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
7 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
9 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10 The Grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo
11 I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes
12 The Tattooist of Auschwitz Series, Heather Morris
13 The Bible
14 Throne of Glass Series, Sarah J. Maas
15 The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
16 The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons
17 The Hunger Games Series, Suzanne Collins
18 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
19 Bridgerton Series, Julia Quinn
20 Aroha, Hinemoa Elder
21 All The Light We Cannnot See, Anthony Doerr
22 The Girl in the Mirror, Rose Carlyle
23 Becoming, Michelle Obama
24 Normal People, Sally Rooney
25 The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
26 The Kingsbridge Series, Ken Follett
27 Auē, Becky Manawatu
28 Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
29 A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
30 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E.Schwab
31 The Sentinel, Lee Child & Andrew Child
32 A Song of Ice and Fire Series, George R.R.Martin
33 The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
34 The Kingkiller Chronicle, Patrick Rothfuss
35 The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
36 American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
37 The Hobbit, J.R.R.Tolkien
38 Crescent City : House of Earth & Blood, Sarah J. Maas
39 Māori Made Easy, Scotty Morrison
40 Shuggie Bain, Stuart Douglas
41 Educated, Tara Westover
42 The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
43 Women Don't Owe You Pretty, Florence Given
44 Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
45 The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
46 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
47 A High Country Life, Philippa Cameron
48 Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty
49 The Handmaid's Tale Series, Margaret Atwood
50 Lilac Girls Series, Martha Hall Kelly
51 Tell Me Lies, J.P.Pomare
52 Supergood, Chelsea Winter
53 Sapiens, Noah Yuval Harari
54 The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
55 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
56 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
57 Note to Self, Rebekah Ballagh
58 The Tea Rose Series, Jennifer Donnelly
59 Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
60 The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
61 The Secret History, Donna Tartt
62 Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton
63 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
64 The Millennium Series, Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz
65 My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
66 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***, Mark Manson
67 The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
68 The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson
69 The Book of Knowing Series, Gwendoline Smith
70 This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
71 Girl, Woman, Other , Bernardine Evaristo
72 Untamed, Glennon Doyle
73 Back to You, Tammy Robinson
74 Keepers, Cherie Metcalfe
75 1984 George Orwell
76 Orphan X Series, Gregg Hurwitz
77 Mythos, Stephen Fry
78 It, Stephen King
79 Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
80 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
81 The Last Hours Series, Cassandra Clare
82 The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
83 A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
84 Heartstopper Series, Alice Oseman
85 Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
86 Dune, Frank Herbert
87 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
88 The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist
89 In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park
90 The Body, Bill Bryson
91 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
92 The Choice, Edith Eger
93 Into the Wilderness Series, Sara Donati
94 The Catcher in the Rye, J.D.Salinger
95 Sh*t Towns of New Zealand, Anonymous
96 The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Oseman
97 The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
98 The Outsiders, S.E.Hinton
99 Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
100 They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera
