Aotearoa Bestsellers – 18 to 24 August

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (18 to 24 August 2024).

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

© Nielsen BookScan NZ 2024

Fiction - Adults

1. The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise WardPenguin Group (NZ) - $38
2. Home Truths by Charity NormanAllen & Unwin - $36.99
3. All That We Know by Shilo KinoHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
4. The Mess We Made by Megan O'NeillHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
5. At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence FearnleyPenguin Group (NZ) - $37
6. The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine ChidgeyTe Herenga Waka University Press - $35
7. Birnam Wood (B-Format) by Eleanor CattonTe Herenga Waka University Press - $28
8. The Girl from London by Olivia SpoonerHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $27.99
9. Kāwai: For Such a Time As This by Monty SoutarDavid Bateman Ltd - $39.99
10. Ōkiwi Brown by Cristina SandersThe Cuba Press - $37

Non-Fiction Adults

1. View from the Second Row by Samuel WhitelockHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $49.99
2. Seriously Delicious: 70 + recipes from the bestselling Miss Polly's Kitchen by Polly MarkusAllen & Unwin - $49.99
3. Serviceman J: The Untold Story of a NZSAS Soldier by Jamie PennellHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
4. Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush by Sam GibsonAllen & Unwin - $45
5. The Last Secret Agent by Pippa LatourAllen & Unwin - $37.99
6. The Road to Chatto Creek by Matt ChisholmAllen & Unwin - $45
7. The Life of Dai by Dai HenwoodHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
8. A Life Less Punishing 13 Ways To Love the Life You've Got by Matt HeathAllen & Unwin - $37.99
9. Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning by Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $35
10. Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty by Avril BellAuckland University Press - $29.99

Children and Young Adults

1. Nine Girls by Stacy GreggPenguin Group (NZ) - $22
2. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
3. Hairy Maclary and Friends Meet the Gang!: A Tabbed Board Book by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
4. The Grimmelings by Rachael KingAllen & Unwin - $24.99
5. Buzzz!: Native Bugs of Aotearoa by Donovan BixleyHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $24.99
6. Piki te Ora: Your Wellbeing Journal by Hira NathanAllen & Unwin - $29.99
7. Children of the Rush 3 by James RussellDragon Brothers Books Ltd - $22
8. The Stinky Wonky Donkey by Craig SmithScholastic New Zealand Limited - $22.99
9. Pee Wee the Kiwi Spends the Day at the Farm BB by Blair CooperFlying Books Publishing - $18.99
10. The Observologist: A handbook for mounting very small scientific expeditions by Giselle ClarksonGecko Press - $39.99