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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 27 July to 2 August

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 27 July to 2 August

Week of August 7, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (27 July to 2 August).

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

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

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

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Cover of The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

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Cover of Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

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Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of The Unlikely Doctor

Children & Young Adults

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2

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

3

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

4

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

5

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

6

The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

by Gina Butson

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

7

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

8

Black Silk and Buried Secrets

The second riveting historical fiction novel in the Tatty Crowe series, sequel to BLACK SILK AND SYMPATHY, for fans of Jackie French, Tea Cooper and Kirsty Manning

by Deborah Challinor

$37.99 NZD

9

Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

Tree of Nourishment

by Monty Soutar

David Bateman Ltd

$39.99 NZD

10

The Songbirds of Florence

by Olivia Spooner

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$27.99 NZD

1

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

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A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

A memoir

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$59.99 NZD

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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

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Polkinghorne

Inside the Trial of the Century

by Steve Braunias

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

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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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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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Invisible Intelligence

Why your child might not be failing

by Welby Ings

Otago University Press

$45.00 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

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Dr Libby Fix Iron First

by Dr Libby

Little Green Frog Publishing Ltd

$39.95 NZD

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

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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Pukeko Who-keko?

Pukeko Who-keko?

by Toby Morris

Penguin Group (NZ)

$21.00 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

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Pekapeka, Secret Forest Bat

by Ned Barraud

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$21.99 NZD

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Ghost Kiwi

by Ruth Paul

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$20.99 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 Edmonds My First Cookbook

Edmonds My First Cookbook

by Goodman Fielder

$27.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 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