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Bestseller Lists New Zealand Top 10


New Zealand Top 10


The Australasian nation has backed homegrown cookbooks, big-brand children’s fiction and animated canine colouring


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Treehouse series climbs with two top-10 berths


The Aussie crack team of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton are neck-and-neck - n-Ros


with the British Walliams-‘n’-Ross crew, with The 104-Storey


Treehouse having shifted just 3just 370 copies fewer than The W rld’sorld’s third


Worst Children 3 to claim thir place. However, “Grenton” (or “Driffiths”) out-number the UK contenders in terms of titles in the 2018 top 10, with the original title in the Treehouse series, 2011’s The 13-Storey Treehouse, in 10th place.


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Moyes Still on song


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Jojo Moyes’ Still Me has swiped the New Zealand number one for 2018, with 12,040 copies sold. While the author’s blockbuster Me Before You trilogy has shifted 66,813 copies since records began, Still Me has already surpassed sales of the Me Before You film tie-in, and is just 400 copies away from over- taking the original 2012 edition.


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Australia’s bestseller, Mark Manson’s The


Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, has sold strongly in the neighbouring territory too. It’s the non-fiction number one in New Zealand, and the only US import in the top 10


Home-grown Chelsea tops the league of cookery titles


cookery book


New Zealand’s 2017 bestseller was, like the UK, a cookbook from a home-grown celebrity chef—but Chelsea Winter may have more in common with Nigella Lawson than Jamie Oliver (Nigella even borrowed the title of Winter’s 2013 At My Table for her 2017 release of the same name). Tough the chef shrugs off “food philosophies”, she does add: “Don’t be afraid of a bit of New Zealand butter. I’m sure it makes the world a better place.” New Zealand dairy exports promptly jumped by $3bn—coincidence? Eat has emerged as Winter’s bestselling title to date, with its 36,326 copies sold in total nudging the chef’s all-time volume towards the 150,000-unit mark.


8 Full-court impress for Adams


My Life, My Fight, the memoir of seven-foot-tall NBA player Steven Adams—New Zealand's highest-paid sportsperson ever—travels into eighth place, with 6,392 copies sold.


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Twenty-one and lots of fun: Word Search stars


By far the oldest book in the New Zealand top 50, the 1997-published Word Search has shifted 6,209 copies so far in 2018. Being coded as a Children's General Interest & Leisure title through BookScan, it brings the kids' book count to five in the Kiwi top 10. The Children's category is booming in New Zealand. It's by far the largest sector: up 19% in volume for the year to date, and accounting for 43% of the entire market.


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Walliams is top of the class for Kiwi kids


Like the UK and Ireland, New Zealand has crowned David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The World’s Worst Children 3 the biggest-selling kids’ title of the year—though the Kiwis have elevated the author-illustrator


duo to their highest chart position in any Nielsen


BookScan territory. In total, Walliams and Ross have


sold more than a quarter of a million books in New Zealand, for a value of NZ$5m.


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Far from a Paw showing for Nickelodeon tie-in


The Nickelodean Paw Patrol PAWsome Colouring Book has sold 7,279 copies to become New Zealand’s third-bestselling kids’ book in 2018. Given that the New Zealand population is around 4.6 million—equivalent to around 7% of the UK—the puptacular colouring book has, propor- tionally, outperformed the UK-published Paw Patrol Busy Book, more than one in every 1,000 Kiwis owning a PAWsome Colouring Book.


7 Seventh heaven for Eleanor


Neatly, Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine has claimed seventh place in both Australia and New Zealand. She joins Moyes as one of only two Adult Fiction authors in the Kiwi top 10.


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Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s second


top-10 entry, The 13-Storey Treehouse, has sold 36,209 copies across editions—it’s by far the duo’s bestseller. Teir all-time volume in New Zealand is a whisker shy of 250,000 copies


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