Aotearoa New Zealand Bestseller ListsNgā Rārangi Pukapuka Pai Rawa Atu o Aotearoa

The latest bestsellers from around New Zealand.

Aotearoa Bestsellers – 4 to 10 August

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (4 to 10 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. Kāwai: For Such a Time As This by Monty SoutarDavid Bateman Ltd - $39.99
  7. The Space Between by Lauren KeenanPenguin Group (NZ) - $37
  8. Birnam Wood (B-Format) by Eleanor CattonTe Herenga Waka University Press - $28
  9. Amma by Saraid de SilvaHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $37.99
  10. Take Two by Danielle HawkinsAllen & Unwin - $36.99

Non-Fiction Adults

  1. View from the Second Row by Samuel WhitelockHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $49.99
  2. Serviceman J: The Untold Story of a NZSAS Soldier by Jamie PennellHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  3. The Road to Chatto Creek by Matt ChisholmAllen & Unwin - $45
  4. The Last Secret Agent by Pippa LatourAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  5. Unmasking Monsters by David HenwoodAllen & Unwin - $39.99
  6. Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning by Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $35
  7. Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty by Avril BellAuckland University Press - $29.99
  8. The Life of Dai by Dai HenwoodHarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) - $39.99
  9. A Life Less Punishing 13 Ways To Love the Life You've Got by Matt HeathAllen & Unwin - $37.99
  10. Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet by Hinemoa ElderPenguin Group (NZ) - $30

Children and Young Adults

  1. Where is Hairy Maclary? by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  2. Pee Wee the Lonely Kiwi by Blair CooperFlying Books Publishing - $22.99
  3. Piki te Ora: Your Wellbeing Journal by Hira NathanAllen & Unwin - $29.99
  4. The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire MabeyAllen & Unwin - $24.99
  5. Buzzz!: Native Bugs of Aotearoa by Donovan BixleyHachette Aotearoa New Zealand - $24.99
  6. The Grimmelings by Rachael KingAllen & Unwin - $24.99
  7. The Stinky Wonky Donkey by Craig SmithScholastic New Zealand Limited - $22.99
  8. Hairy Maclary and Friends Meet the Gang!: A Tabbed Board Book by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $19.99
  9. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley DoddPenguin Group (NZ) - $15.99
  10. The Observologist: A handbook for mounting very small scientific expeditions by Giselle ClarksonGecko Press - $39.99