The Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List — September-October 2025
Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (7 September to 4 October 2025).
Each month, The Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adults Bestseller List highlights the bestselling children’s books by New Zealand writers across junior fiction and young adult titles. Sponsored by Storylines. Data collected by NielsenIQ BookScan.
Charts produced by NielsenIQ BookScan NZ using sales data from the NZ panel of participating booksellers. © NielsenIQ BookScan NZ 2025.
View the latest monthly list below (7 September to 4 October 2025).
The (Not So) Superheroes (The Terrible Trio 1), Swapna Haddow & Minky Stapleton, Scholastic, $18.99
The Fate of Dragons, Sarina Clark & Abra Gil Celdran, Little Moa, $21.99
Kings of this World, Elizabeth Knox, Allen and Unwin Children's, $29.99
Leonardo's Dragon, Donovan Bixley, Upstart Press, $29.99
Children of the Rush Book 1, James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books, $22
Dreamslinger (Slinger Series 1), Graci Kim, Penguin Books, $24.00
The Secret Green, Sonya Wilson, Allen and Unwin Children's, $24.99
Spark Hunter, Sonya Wilson, Allen & Unwin Children's, $24.99
The Dragon Defenders (Book 1), James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books, $22.00
The Case of the Angry Ghost (Violet and the Velvets 2), Rachael King, Allen and Unwin Children's, $18.99
