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The latest bestsellers from around New Zealand.

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 21 to 27 September

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (21 to 27 September).

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 Vanishing Place by Zoe RankinHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  2. Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace by Lauren RocheFlying Books Publishing - $36.99
  3. The Book of Guilt by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $38
  4. See How They Fall by Rachel ParisHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  5. The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $26
  6. The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
  7. Hooked Up by Fiona SussmanDavid Bateman Ltd - $38.99
  8. May You Always Know by Jessica UrlichsHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $24.99
  9. Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie ShapiroAllen & Unwin - $27.99
  10. Wonderland by Tracy FarrThe Cuba Press - $38

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. Saving Elli by Doug GoldAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  2. Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind by Dr Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  3. Become Unstoppable by Gilbert EnokaPenguin Group (NZ) - $40
  4. A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $59.99
  5. Just a Mum's Kitchen: Classic recipes from a home cook and baker by Anna CameronAllen & Unwin - $45
  6. The Unlikely Doctor by Timoti Te MokeAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  7. Habits of High Performers by James LaughlinHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  8. Edible Weeds Handbook by Andrew CrowePenguin Group (NZ) - $35
  9. Everything But the Medicine by Lucy O'HaganMassey University Press - $39.99
  10. Underworld by Jared SavageHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99

Children and Young Adults

  1. Mum's Busy Work by Jacinda ArdernPenguin Group (NZ) - $30
  2. Hooked: Learning to Fish by Al BrownAllen & Unwin - $35
  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. Whenua by Isobel Joy Te Aho-WhiteHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $39.99
  6. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  7. Goat on a Tractor by Amy HarropDavid Bateman Ltd - $21.99
  8. Te ngahere i te po The forest at night by Kiri LightfootAllen & Unwin - $24.99
  9. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  10. Pukeko Who-keko? by Toby MorrisPenguin Group (NZ) - $21

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