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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 13 July to 19 July

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 13 July to 19 July

Week of July 24, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (13 July to 19 July 2025).

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

© NielsenIQ BookScan NZ 2025

Adult Fiction

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The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

Cover of The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

Cover of The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

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

Cover of See How They Fall

Cover of The Whale Rider

Cover of Auē

Cover of Delirious

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Cover of Sea Change

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

Children & Young Adults

Cover of ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

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2

The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

by Gina Butson

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

3

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

4

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

5

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

6

The Whale Rider

by Witi Ihimaera

$15.99 NZD

7

Auē

by Becky Manawatu

Makaro Press

$35.00 NZD

8

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

9

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

10

Sea Change

by Jenny Pattrick

$37.99 NZD

1

A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

A memoir

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$59.99 NZD

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Polkinghorne

Inside the Trial of the Century

by Steve Braunias

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

Cover of Leading Under Pressure

Leading Under Pressure

The inside story of Ian Foster's All Blacks for fans of LEGACY and THE ART OF WINNING

by Ian Foster

HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

$39.99 NZD

Cover of No, I Don't Get Danger Money: Confessions of an Accidental War Correspondent

No, I Don't Get Danger Money: Confessions of an Accidental War Correspondent

Confessions of an Accidental War Correspondent

by Lisette Reymer

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

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Māori Millionaire

A beginner's guide to building better money habits

by Te Kahukura Boynton

Penguin Group (NZ)

$35.00 NZD

Cover of Dr Libby Fix Iron First

Dr Libby Fix Iron First

by Dr Libby

Little Green Frog Publishing Ltd

$39.95 NZD

Cover of Coach: Lessons from an All Blacks Legend

Coach: Lessons from an All Blacks Legend

Lessons from an All Blacks Legend

by Mike Cron

HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

$39.99 NZD

Cover of Whānau

Whānau

Reo Māori Phrases to Share With the People You Love

by Donovan Farnham

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$29.99 NZD

Cover of A Dim Prognosis

A Dim Prognosis

Our health system in crisis - and a doctor's view on how to fix it

by Ivor Popovich

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

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Mātauranga Māori

by Sir Hirini Moko Mead

Huia Publishers

$45.00 NZD

1

ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

NEE NAW AND FRIENDS

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 NZD

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Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1

4 books in 1

by Lynley Dodd

Penguin Group (NZ)

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Pukeko Who-keko?

Pukeko Who-keko?

by Toby Morris

Penguin Group (NZ)

$21.00 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Anahera: The Mighty Kiwi Mama

Anahera: The Mighty Kiwi Mama

The Mighty Kiwi Mama

by Ruth Paul

$21.00 NZD

Cover of Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary and Friends How Do I Feel?: A lift the flap book

Hairy Maclary and Friends How Do I Feel?: A lift the flap book

A lift the flap book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Edmonds My First Cookbook

Edmonds My First Cookbook

by Goodman Fielder

$27.99 NZD

Cover of Toot the Tow Truck (Nee Naw and Friends)

Toot the Tow Truck (Nee Naw and Friends)

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary's Magnet Fun

Hairy Maclary's Magnet Fun

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD