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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 11 to 17 August

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 11 to 17 August

Week of August 21, 2024

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View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (11 to 17 August 2024).

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

© Nielsen BookScan NZ 2024

Adult Fiction

Cover of The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone

The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone

Dead Girl Gone

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

Cover of Home Truths

Cover of All That We Know

Cover of At The Grand Glacier Hotel

Cover of The Mess We Made

Cover of The Girls in the Red House are Singing

Cover of Amma

Cover of Birnam Wood (B-Format)

Cover of Kāwai: For Such a Time As This

Cover of Bird Child and Other Stories

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of View from the Second Row

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Nine Girls

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2

Home Truths

by Charity Norman

$36.99 NZD

3

All That We Know

by Shilo Kino

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

4

At The Grand Glacier Hotel

by Laurence Fearnley

$37.00 NZD

5

The Mess We Made

by Megan O'Neill

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

6

The Girls in the Red House are Singing

by Tracey Slaughter

$30.00 NZD

7

Amma

by Saraid de Silva

$37.99 NZD

Birnam Wood (B-Format)

by Eleanor Catton

$28.00 NZD

9

Kāwai: For Such a Time As This

For Such a Time As This

by Monty Soutar

$39.99 NZD

10

Bird Child and Other Stories

by Patricia Grace

$37.00 NZD

1

View from the Second Row

by Samuel Whitelock

HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

$49.99 NZD

Cover of Serviceman J: The Untold Story of a NZSAS Soldier

Serviceman J: The Untold Story of a NZSAS Soldier

The Untold Story of a NZSAS Soldier

by Jamie Pennell

HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

$39.99 NZD

Cover of Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush

Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush

Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush

by Sam Gibson

$45.00 NZD

Cover of The Road to Chatto Creek

The Road to Chatto Creek

by Matt Chisholm

$45.00 NZD

Cover of The Life of Dai

The Life of Dai

by Dai Henwood

HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

$39.99 NZD

Cover of A Life Less Punishing 13 Ways To Love the Life You've Got

A Life Less Punishing 13 Ways To Love the Life You've Got

13 Ways To Love the Life You've Got

by Matt Heath

$37.99 NZD

Cover of She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired

She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired

One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired

by Matt Brown

$35.00 NZD

Cover of Unmasking Monsters

Unmasking Monsters

by David Henwood

$39.99 NZD

Cover of Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty

Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty

Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty

by Avril Bell

$29.99 NZD

1

Nine Girls

by Stacy Gregg

$22.00 NZD

Cover of Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Duffy and the Bullies

Duffy and the Bullies

by Jeff Szusterman

$25.99 NZD

Cover of The Grimmelings

The Grimmelings

by Rachael King

$24.99 NZD

Cover of Pee Wee the Lonely Kiwi

Pee Wee the Lonely Kiwi

by Blair Cooper

$22.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary and Friends Meet the Gang!: A Tabbed Board Book

Hairy Maclary and Friends Meet the Gang!: A Tabbed Board Book

A Tabbed Board Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Patu

Patu

The New Zealand Wars

by Gavin Bishop

$40.00 NZD

Cover of The Stinky Wonky Donkey

The Stinky Wonky Donkey

by Craig Smith

$22.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Piki te Ora: Your Wellbeing Journal

Piki te Ora: Your Wellbeing Journal

by Hira Nathan

$29.99 NZD