The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
AUCKLAND
1 Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, $40)
Welcome to the charts, Shayne. You’ll stay a while, yeah?
2 Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth (Penguin Random House, $28)
On the industrial system: “When drawn in its simplest form, it looks something like an industrial caterpillar, ingesting food at one end, chewing it through, and excreting the waste out of the other end.”
3 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson (Macmillan, $35)
They’re hyping the next one very very hard.
4 Machines Like Me: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Penguin Random House, $37)
We want to have read it. We just don’t want to actually have to read it.
5 Home Fire: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury, $22)
Request: reaction videos of people reading the end.
6 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat (Cannongate, $65)
Savvy, delight, kindness, warmth.
7 Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crises (or Don’t) by Jared Diamond (Allen & Unwin, $40)
Third in a trilogy behind Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse.
8 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Penguin Random House, $26)
“Even the gray Soviet world melts inside the golden warmth of the Metropol”: the New York Times.
9 Becoming by Michelle Obama (Viking Penguin, $55)
What’s brought this on, then?
10 The Meaning of Trees by Robert Vennel (Harper Collins, $55)
We’ve nabbed the bits on supplejack and ongaonga for you.
WELLINGTON
1 Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, $40)
2 The New Zealand Wars: Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O’Malley (Bridget Williams Books, $40)
Look out for a Spinoff extract this afternoon.
3 How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press, $25)
Our Poetry Editor would prefer to pretend it’s not happening but oh look! Her new book! (Taster here.)
4 Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape, $37)
5 Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth (Random House, $28)
6 100 Natural Treasures of Te Papa edited by Susan Waugh (Te Papa Press, $45)
Te Papa Press strikes again.
7 Marilyn Waring: The Political Years by Marilyn Waring (Bateman, $40)
Wrangled some of this one for you too. Involves a saddle sore and a teal bridesmaid dress.
8 Billion Dollar Bonfire by Chris Lee (Bateman, $40)
We keep picturing certain billionaires on fire?
9 Circe by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury, $22)
“Nothing short of a masterpiece”: NZ Booklovers
10 Finding France Hodgkins by Mary Kisler (Massey University Press, $45)
Go team! You banished Sally Rooney!