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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 12 to 18 October

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 12 to 18 October

Week of October 15, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (12 to 18 October).

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

© NielsenIQ BookData NZ 2025

Adult Fiction

Cover of Angels of Clay

Angels of Clay

by Madeleine Eskedahl

Matheson Bay Press

$36.99 NZD

Cover of The Vanishing Place

Cover of Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

Cover of The Book of Guilt

Cover of Where In All The World

Cover of Delirious

Cover of The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

Cover of Landfall Tauraka 250: Spring 2025

Cover of Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of Nourish

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

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2

The Vanishing Place

by Zoe Rankin

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

3

Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

a Life of Grit and Grace

by Lauren Roche

Flying Books Publishing

$36.99 NZD

4

The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

5

Where In All The World

by Vanessa Croft

David Bateman Ltd

$38.99 NZD

6

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

7

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

8

Landfall Tauraka 250: Spring 2025

Spring 2025

by Lynley Edmeades

Otago University Press

$35.00 NZD

9

Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

Tree of Nourishment

by Monty Soutar

David Bateman Ltd

$39.99 NZD

1

Nourish

by Chelsea Winter

Allen & Unwin

$49.99 NZD

Cover of Nadia's Farm Kitchen

Nadia's Farm Kitchen

by Nadia Lim

Nude Food Inc Ltd

$55.00 NZD

Cover of Perspective

Perspective

by Shaun Johnson

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 NZD

Cover of Mana

Mana

by Tāme Iti

Allen & Unwin

$49.99 NZD

Cover of Become Unstoppable

Become Unstoppable

The blueprint from the world's most successful sports team

by Gilbert Enoka

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 NZD

Cover of A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

A memoir

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$59.99 NZD

Cover of Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind

Ara: A Māori guidebook of the mind

A Māori guidebook of the mind

by Dr Hinemoa Elder

Penguin Group (NZ)

$30.00 NZD

Cover of Māori Ora

Māori Ora

Your guide to using traditional Māori knowledge to live a more intentional life

by Hira Nathan

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

Cover of Edible Weeds Handbook

Edible Weeds Handbook

A field guide to the introduced edible wild plants of New Zealand

by Andrew Crowe

Penguin Group (NZ)

$35.00 NZD

1

Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

by Dean O'Brien

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Taniwha

Taniwha

by Gavin Bishop

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 NZD

Cover of Hooked: Learning to Fish

Hooked: Learning to Fish

Learning to Fish

by Al Brown

Allen & Unwin

$35.00 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary

Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary

The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary

by Lynley Dodd

$50.00 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

by Lynley Dodd

Penguin Group (NZ)

$23.00 NZD

Cover of Mum's Busy Work

Mum's Busy Work

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$30.00 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Mother of the Nation

Mother of the Nation

Whina Cooper and the Long Walk for Justice

by David Hill

Penguin Group (NZ)

$25.00 NZD