Bestsellers for the week ending Sat 17th October 2026
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NZ Fiction - Adults
| 1 | 9781776923199 | The Starving Bride | Catherine Chidgey | Te Herenga Waka University Press | $38.00 |
| 2 | 9781869715670 | A Siena Love Story | Nicky Pellegrino | Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand | $37.99 |
| 3 | 9781776951406 | The Star Path | Witi Ihimaera Smiler | Penguin Books (NZ) | $35.00 |
| 4 | 9781869718831 | Ordinary People Like Us | Kelly Ana Morey | Moa Press | $37.99 |
| 5 | 9781991348272 | Feral and Other Stories | Isabel Haarhaus | Otago University Press | $35.00 |
NZ Non-Fiction - Adults
| 1 | 9781991006967 | Always Delicious | Vanya Insull | A&U New Zealand | $45.00 |
| 2 | 9781991006868 | In the Room | Andrew Campbell | A&U New Zealand | $37.99 |
| 3 | 9781991142825 | Lucky You're Tough | Mark Law & Ron Crosby | A&U New Zealand | $39.99 |
| 4 | 9781988550916 | Dirty Work | Nicky Hager | Potton & Burton | $34.99 |
| 5 | 9781991006776 | Nothing But the Truth | Stuart Grieve | A&U New Zealand | $45.00 |
NZ Children and Teens
| 1 | 9781775439295 | Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas | Deano Yipadee & Bruce Potter | Scholastic New Zealand | $21.99 |
| 2 | 9781869715748 | The Fate of Dragons (Dragonfall 1) | Sarina Clark & Alba Gil Celdran | Little Moa | $21.99 |
| 3 | 9781869715564 | The Anaconda Attack (Miles & Jones 1) | Sam Smith & César Lador | Little Moa | $14.99 |
| 4 | 9781991142276 | Once Upon a Harbour | Fiona Farrell & David Elliot | A&U Children's NZ | $35.00 |
| 5 | 9781869715724 | The Sweet As Looky Book | Donovan Bixley | Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand | $27.99 |
International Fiction - Adults (excluding NZ)
| 1 | 9780349450612 | Threshing Day (Limited Deluxe Edition) | Rebecca Yarros | Piatkus Books | $55.00 |
| 2 | 9781399703475 | The French Illusion | John Grisham | Hodder & Stoughton | $37.99 |
| 3 | 9781464299452 | The Witch | Freida McFadden | Poisoned Pen Press | $38.00 |
| 4 | 9781682818084 | Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) | Rebecca Yarros | Entangled: Red Tower Books | $69.99 |
| 5 | 9781761775642 | Hollow Bones | Jodi Picoult | Macmillan Australia | $38.00 |
International Non-Fiction - Adults (excluding NZ)
| 1 | 9781398730847 | I'll Believe in Anything | Jacob Tierney & Rachel Reid | Trapeze | $60.00 |
| 2 | 9781529921298 | Protocols | Andrew Huberman | Cornerstone Press | $45.00 |
| 3 | 9781529109511 | Ottolenghi Simple Too | Yotam Ottolenghi & Verena Lochmuller | Ebury Press | $75.00 |
| 4 | 9780241825594 | Swan Song | Charles Spencer | Michael Joseph Ltd | $65.00 |
| 5 | 9781405995887 | Murdoku Volume 2 | M. Garand | Penguin Books Ltd | $40.00 |
International Children and Teens (excluding NZ)
| 1 | 9781037408724 | Gruffalo Granny | Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler | Macmillan | $30.00 |
| 2 | 9780241831564 | Lottie Brooks’s Twelve Disasters of Christmas | Katie Kirby | Puffin | $21.00 |
| 3 | 9781761818578 | Baby-Sitters on Board! (The Baby-Sitters Club) | Raina Telgemeier & Gale Galligan & Ann M. Martin | Scholastic | $28.99 |
| 4 | 9781761600913 | The Big Book of Kiwi Nursery Rhymes | Kimberly Andrews | Walker Books Australia | $29.99 |
| 5 | 9780241836507 | Cozy Countdown | Coco Wyo | Penguin Books Ltd | $45.00 |
Charts produced by NielsenIQ BookData NZ using sales data from the NZ panel of participating booksellers.