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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 9 to 15 November

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 9 to 15 November

Week of November 19, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (9 to 15 November).

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 Good Things Come and Go

Good Things Come and Go

by Josie Shapiro

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

Cover of The Shadow Weaver

Cover of The Vanishing Place

Cover of Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

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

Cover of The Book of Guilt

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Cover of Delirious

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of Nadia's Farm Kitchen

Children & Young Adults

Cover of Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

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2

The Shadow Weaver

by Ivy Cliffwater

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

3

The Vanishing Place

by Zoe Rankin

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$37.99 NZD

4

Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

a Life of Grit and Grace

by Lauren Roche

Flying Books Publishing

$36.99 NZD

5

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

6

The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

7

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

8

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

1

Nadia's Farm Kitchen

by Nadia Lim

Nude Food Inc Ltd

$55.00 NZD

Cover of Nourish

Nourish

by Chelsea Winter

Allen & Unwin

$49.99 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 Mana

Mana

by Tāme Iti

Allen & Unwin

$49.99 NZD

Cover of Perspective

Perspective

by Shaun Johnson

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 NZD

Cover of Jacinda: The Untold Stories - Unauthorised Biography

Jacinda: The Untold Stories - Unauthorised Biography

by David Cohen

Centrist Publishing

$39.99 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 Māori Ora

Māori Ora

Your guide to using traditional Māori knowledge to live a more intentional life

by Hira Nathan

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

1

Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

by Dean O'Brien

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$21.99 NZD

Cover of A Kiwi Night Before Christmas

A Kiwi Night Before Christmas

by Yvonne Morrison

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$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 Hooked: Learning to Fish

Hooked: Learning to Fish

Learning to Fish

by Al Brown

Allen & Unwin

$35.00 NZD

Cover of Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 NZD

Cover of Taniwha

Taniwha

by Gavin Bishop

Penguin Group (NZ)

$40.00 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 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

by Lynley Dodd

$15.99 NZD

Cover of Dinky Donkey's First Christmas (A Lift-the-Felt-Flap Book)

Dinky Donkey's First Christmas (A Lift-the-Felt-Flap Book)

by Craig Smith

Scholastic New Zealand Limited

$16.99 NZD

Cover of Mum's Busy Work

Mum's Busy Work

by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin Group (NZ)

$30.00 NZD