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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 19 to 25 October

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (19 to 25 October).

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

© NielsenIQ BookData NZ 2025

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. See How They Fall by Rachel ParisHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  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. Landfall Tauraka 250: Spring 2025 by Lynley EdmeadesOtago University Press - $35
  9. Where In All The World by Vanessa CroftDavid Bateman Ltd - $38.99
  10. Angels of Clay by Madeleine EskedahlMatheson Bay Press - $36.99

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. Nourish by Chelsea WinterAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  2. Lessons on Living by Nigel LattaHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  3. Nadia's Farm Kitchen by Nadia LimNude Food Inc Ltd - $55
  4. Perspective by Shaun JohnsonPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  5. Mana by Tāme ItiAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  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. Māori Ora by Hira NathanAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  9. Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind by Dr Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  10. The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era by Peta CareyPotton & Burton - $39.99

Children and Young Adults

  1. Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas by Dean O'BrienScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  2. Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  3. Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $23
  4. Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1 by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  5. Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $50
  6. Taniwha by Gavin BishopPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  7. Mum's Busy Work by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  8. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  9. Hooked: Learning to Fish by Al BrownAllen & Unwin - $35
  10. Pee Wee the Kiwi's Christmas Adventure by Blair CooperFlying Books Publishing - $22.99

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