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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 9 to 16 August

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Weekly Best Seller

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 9 to 16 August

Week of August 21, 2025

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (9 to 16 August).

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

© NielsenIQ BookScan NZ 2025

Adult Fiction

Cover of Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

Julia Eichardt: a Life of Grit and Grace

a Life of Grit and Grace

by Lauren Roche

Flying Books Publishing

$36.99 NZD

Cover of The Book of Guilt

Cover of See How They Fall

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

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

Cover of The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

Cover of The Songbirds of Florence

Cover of Delirious

Cover of 1985: A Novel

Cover of Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

Adult Non-Fiction

Cover of The Unlikely Doctor

Children & Young Adults

Cover of The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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2

The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

$38.00 NZD

3

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

$37.99 NZD

4

The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone - B Format

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$26.00 NZD

5

The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

by Gareth and Louise Ward

$38.00 NZD

6

The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds

by Gina Butson

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 NZD

7

The Songbirds of Florence

by Olivia Spooner

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

$27.99 NZD

8

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins

$38.00 NZD

9

1985: A Novel

A Novel

by Dominic Hoey

Penguin Group (NZ)

$38.00 NZD

10

Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment

Tree of Nourishment

by Monty Soutar

David Bateman Ltd

$39.99 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

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 The Hungry Cook

The Hungry Cook

by Olivia Galletly

Allen & Unwin

$45.00 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 Songs from the Shaky Isles

Songs from the Shaky Isles

by Shute, Gareth

David Bateman Ltd

$39.99 NZD

Cover of Polkinghorne

Polkinghorne

Inside the Trial of the Century

by Steve Braunias

Allen & Unwin

$37.99 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 The Middle of Nowhere

The Middle of Nowhere

Stories of working on the Manapouri hydro project

by Rosemary Baird

Canterbury University Press

$55.00 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

1

The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

by Ross Calman

$29.99 NZD

Cover of Pukeko Who-keko?

Pukeko Who-keko?

by Toby Morris

Penguin Group (NZ)

$21.00 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary and Friends: 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 Where is Hairy Maclary?

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Lynley Dodd

$19.99 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 Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

by Deano Yipadee

$21.99 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 The Raven's Eye Runaways

The Raven's Eye Runaways

by Claire Mabey

$24.99 NZD

Cover of Mother of the Nation

Mother of the Nation

Whina Cooper and the Long Walk for Justice

by David Hill

Penguin Group (NZ)

$25.00 NZD