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The latest bestsellers from around New Zealand.

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 17 to 23 August

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (17 to 23 August).

Charts produced by NielsenIQ BookScan NZ using sales data from the NZ panel of participating booksellers.

© NielsenIQ BookScan NZ 2025

Fiction - Adults

  1. Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace by Lauren RocheFlying Books Publishing - $36.99
  2. The Book of Guilt by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  3. The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $26
  4. See How They Fall by Rachel ParisHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  5. Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 by Tracey SlaughterMassey University Press - $37
  6. 1985: A Novel by Dominic HoeyPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  7. Delirious by Damien WilkinsTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  8. The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  9. The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds by Gina ButsonAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  10. The Venetian Blind Poems by Paula GreenThe Cuba Press - $30

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. Become Unstoppable by Gilbert EnokaPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  2. Anything Could Happen by Grant RobertsonAllen & Unwin - $39.99
  3. A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $59.99
  4. The Unlikely Doctor by Timoti Te MokeAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  5. Underworld by Jared SavageHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  6. Leading Under Pressure by Ian FosterHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  7. Bird of the Year by Forest and BirdPenguin Group (NZ) - $45
  8. The Hungry Cook by Olivia GalletlyAllen & Unwin - $45
  9. No, I Don't Get Danger Money by Lisette ReymerAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  10. Polkinghorne by Steve BrauniasAllen & Unwin - $37.99

Children and Young Adults

  1. The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi by Ross CalmanOratia Media - $29.99
  2. The Lost Words by Kimberley Ngareta KearneyHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $21.99
  3. Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1 by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  4. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  5. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  6. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  7. Pukeko Who-keko? by Toby MorrisPenguin Group (NZ) - $21
  8. Mother of the Nation by David HillPenguin Group (NZ) - $25
  9. Te ngahere i te po The forest at night by Kiri LightfootAllen & Unwin - $24.99
  10. Manu Moa's Aotearoa Road Trip by Angi PearceAngi Pearce - $35

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