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The latest bestsellers from around New Zealand.

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (7 to 13 December).

Charts produced by NielsenIQ BookData New Zealand using sales data from the NZ panel of participating booksellers.

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Fiction - Adults

  1. The American Boys by Olivia SpoonerHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  2. Good Things Come and Go by Josie ShapiroAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  3. The Book of Guilt by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  4. The Vanishing Place by Zoe RankinHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  5. Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace by Lauren RocheFlying Books Publishing - $36.99
  6. 1985: A Novel by Dominic HoeyPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  7. The Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  8. The Shadow Weaver by Ivy CliffwaterHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  9. The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  10. See How They Fall by Rachel ParisHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. Lessons on Living by Nigel LattaHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  2. Nourish by Chelsea WinterAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  3. Nadia's Farm Kitchen by Nadia LimNude Food Inc Ltd - $55
  4. A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $59.99
  5. The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era by Peta CareyPotton & Burton - $39.99
  6. Become Unstoppable by Gilbert EnokaPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  7. Jacinda: The Untold Stories - Unauthorised Biography by David CohenCentrist Publishing - $39.99
  8. Perspective by Shaun JohnsonPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  9. Mana by Tāme ItiAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  10. Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind by Dr Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30

Children and Young Adults

  1. Hooked: Learning to Fish by Al BrownAllen & Unwin - $35
  2. Taniwha by Gavin BishopPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  3. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  4. Pee Wee the Kiwi's Christmas Adventure by Blair CooperFlying Books Publishing - $22.99
  5. Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1 by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  6. Hairy Maclary's Magnet Fun by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  7. Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas by Dean O'BrienScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  8. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  9. Meri Kirihimete Kererū by Juliette MacIverAllen & Unwin - $22.99
  10. Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $50

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