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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 (28 September to 5 October).

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 Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  2. The Vanishing Place by Zoe RankinHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  3. Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace by Lauren RocheFlying Books Publishing - $36.99
  4. The Book of Guilt by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  5. Hooked Up by Fiona SussmanDavid Bateman Ltd - $38.99
  6. The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $26
  7. The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  8. Dead Ends by Laura BorrowdaleTender Press - $30
  9. Where In All The World by Vanessa CroftDavid Bateman Ltd - $38.99
  10. 1985: A Novel by Dominic HoeyPenguin Group (NZ) - $38

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. Lessons on Living by Nigel LattaHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  2. Nadia's Farm Kitchen by Nadia LimNude Food Inc Ltd - $55
  3. Perspective by Shaun JohnsonPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  4. The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era by Peta CareyPotton & Burton - $39.99
  5. Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind by Dr Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  6. Become Unstoppable by Gilbert EnokaPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  7. A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $59.99
  8. Saving Elli by Doug GoldAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  9. Everything But the Medicine by Lucy O'HaganMassey University Press - $39.99
  10. Gold Under The Manuka by Bill MouatDavid Bateman Ltd - $49.99

Children and Young Adults

  1. Mum's Busy Work by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  2. Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas by Dean O'BrienScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  3. Hooked: Learning to Fish by Al BrownAllen & Unwin - $35
  4. Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $23
  5. Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1 by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  6. Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  7. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  8. Whenua by Isobel Joy Te Aho-WhiteHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $39.99
  9. Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $50
  10. The (Not So) Superheroes by Swapna HaddowScholastic New Zealand Limited - $18.99

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