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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 5 July to 12 July

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 5 July to 12 July

Week of July 17, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (5 July to 12 July 2025).

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 Book of Guilt

The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

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 Tour: Washed up, broke, and talentless... it's showtime!

Cover of Delirious

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Cover of Sick Power Trip

Cover of Black Silk and Buried Secrets

Cover of The Good Mistress

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

Children & Young Adults

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

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2

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

3

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

4

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

5

The Tour: Washed up, broke, and talentless... it's showtime!

Washed up, broke, and talentless... it's showtime!

by Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell

$30.00 NZD

6

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

7

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

8

Sick Power Trip

by Erik Kennedy

Te Herenga Waka University Press

$30.00 NZD

9

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

10

The Good Mistress

by Anne Tiernan

$37.99 NZD

1

A Different Kind of Power: A memoir

A memoir

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$59.99 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

Cover of Māori Millionaire

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 Mātauranga Māori

Mātauranga Māori

by Sir Hirini Moko Mead

Huia Publishers

$45.00 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

Cover of Atua Wāhine: The ancient wisdom of Maori goddesses

Atua Wāhine: The ancient wisdom of Maori goddesses

The ancient wisdom of Māori goddesses

by Hana Tapiata

$36.99 NZD

Cover of Hononga: A guide to a more connected, satisfying and authentic life

Hononga: A guide to a more connected, satisfying and authentic life

A guide to a more connected, satisfying and authentic life

by Tracy Manu

David Bateman Ltd

$39.99 NZD

Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 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 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 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 The Secret Green

The Secret Green

by Sonya Wilson

Allen & Unwin

$24.99 NZD

Cover of The New Zealand School Holidays Activity Book

The New Zealand School Holidays Activity Book

by Aleksandra Szmidt

Cover of Spark Hunter

Spark Hunter

by Sonya Wilson

Allen & Unwin

$24.99 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 Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD