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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 31 August to 6 September

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 31 August to 6 September

Week of September 11, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (31 August to 6 September).

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

© NielsenIQ BookScan 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 See How They Fall

Cover of Delirious

Cover of Pakiaka

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of Become Unstoppable

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Goat on a Tractor

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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

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

8

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

9

Pakiaka

by Gabrielle Huria

Canterbury University Press

$25.00 NZD

10

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 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 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 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 Anything Could Happen

Anything Could Happen

by Grant Robertson

Allen & Unwin

$39.99 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 Saving Elli

Saving Elli

by Doug Gold

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

1

Goat on a Tractor

by Amy Harrop

David Bateman Ltd

$21.99 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 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 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 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 ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

NEE NAW AND FRIENDS

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Pukeko Who-keko?

Pukeko Who-keko?

by Toby Morris

Penguin Group (NZ)

$21.00 NZD

Cover of The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

by Ross Calman

$29.99 NZD