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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 14 to 20 September

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 14 to 20 September

Week of September 25, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (14 to 20 September).

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 The Vanishing Place

The Vanishing Place

by Zoe Rankin

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

Cover of Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

Cover of The Book of Guilt

Cover of Hooked Up

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

Cover of See How They Fall

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

Cover of Lepan's Shadow

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Cover of The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of Become Unstoppable

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

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2

Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

a Life of Grit and Grace

by Lauren Roche

Flying Books Publishing

$36.99 NZD

3

The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

4

Hooked Up

by Fiona Sussman

David Bateman Ltd

$38.99 NZD

5

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

6

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

7

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

8

Lepan's Shadow

by Douglas Pearce

Opihi

$28.00 NZD

9

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

10

The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

by Gina Butson

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

1

Become Unstoppable

The blueprint from the world's most successful sports team

by Gilbert Enoka

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 NZD

Cover of Saving Elli

Saving Elli

by Doug Gold

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 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 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 Just a Mum's Kitchen: Classic recipes from a home cook and baker

Just a Mum's Kitchen: Classic recipes from a home cook and baker

Classic recipes from a home cook and baker

by Anna Cameron

Allen & Unwin

$45.00 NZD

Cover of Hard-Case Heroes: Stories from the Abel Tasman

Hard-Case Heroes: Stories from the Abel Tasman

by Gerard Hindmarsh

SWAMP PRESS

$40.00 NZD

Cover of The Unlikely Doctor

The Unlikely Doctor

From gang life and prison to becoming a doctor at 56 - the incredible story of Dr Timoti Te Moke

by Timoti Te Moke

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

Cover of How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand

How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand

by Geoffrey Palmer

Te Herenga Waka University Press

$30.00 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

Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

by Lynley Dodd

Penguin Group (NZ)

$23.00 NZD

Cover of Hooked: Learning to Fish

Hooked: Learning to Fish

Learning to Fish

by Al Brown

Allen & Unwin

$35.00 NZD

Cover of Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 NZD

Cover of The Lost Words

The Lost Words

by Kimberley Ngareta Kearney

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Matt the Bat and the Bird of the Year

Matt the Bat and the Bird of the Year

by Catherine Budai & Clare Cudmore-Neame

Peka Press

$21.99 NZD

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

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 Te ngahere i te po The forest at night

Te ngahere i te po The forest at night

by Kiri Lightfoot

Allen & Unwin

$24.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Kuwi & Friends Maori Picture Dictionary: He Papakupu Whakaahua: 2020: 1

Kuwi & Friends Maori Picture Dictionary: He Papakupu Whakaahua: 2020: 1

He Papakupu Whakaahua

by Kat Quin

$34.99 NZD