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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 28 September to 5 October 2025

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 28 September to 5 October 2025

Week of October 9, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (28 September to 5 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 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 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

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

Cover of Dead Ends

Cover of Where In All The World

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of Nadia's Farm Kitchen

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Mum's Busy Work

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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 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

6

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

7

Dead Ends

by Laura Borrowdale

Tender Press

$30.00 NZD

8

Where In All The World

by Vanessa Croft

David Bateman Ltd

$38.99 NZD

9

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

1

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 The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era

The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era

A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era

by Peta Carey

Potton & Burton

$39.99 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 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 Saving Elli

Saving Elli

by Doug Gold

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

Cover of Gold Under The Manuka

Gold Under The Manuka

Mangaorapa Station: A Farming Story Like No Other

by Bill Mouat

David Bateman Ltd

$49.99 NZD

1

Mum's Busy Work

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$30.00 NZD

Cover of Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

by Dean O'Brien

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$21.99 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's First 100 Words

Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

by Lynley Dodd

Penguin Group (NZ)

$23.00 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 Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 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 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 The (Not So) Superheroes

The (Not So) Superheroes

The Terrible Trio #1

by Swapna Haddow

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$18.99 NZD