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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 2 to 8 November

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (2 to 8 November).

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

© NielsenIQ BookData NZ 2025

Fiction - Adults

  1. Good Things Come and Go by Josie ShapiroAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  2. The American Boys by Olivia SpoonerHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  3. The Book of Guilt by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  4. The Shadow Weaver by Ivy CliffwaterHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  5. Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace by Lauren RocheFlying Books Publishing - $36.99
  6. The Vanishing Place by Zoe RankinHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  7. Wonderland by Tracy FarrThe Cuba Press - $38
  8. The Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  9. Where In All The World by Vanessa CroftDavid Bateman Ltd - $38.99
  10. The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $26

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. Nourish by Chelsea WinterAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  4. Become Unstoppable by Gilbert EnokaPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  5. Mana by Tāme ItiAllen & Unwin - $49.99
  6. Perspective by Shaun JohnsonPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  7. A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $59.99
  8. Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind by Dr Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  9. Cat Zen by Mark VettePenguin Group (NZ) - $50
  10. The Launch Of Rocket Lab by Peter GriffinHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $75

Children and Young Adults

  1. Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas by Dean O'BrienScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  2. Pee Wee the Kiwi's Christmas Adventure by Blair CooperFlying Books Publishing - $22.99
  3. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  4. Taniwha by Gavin BishopPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  5. A Kiwi Night Before Christmas by Yvonne MorrisonScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  6. Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $23
  7. Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  8. Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1 by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  9. Flit the Fantail and the Christmas Crash by Kat QuinScholastic New Zealand Limited - $21.99
  10. My First Ikura: A story for growing girls and their whanau by Qiane Matata-SipuQIANE+co - $29.99

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