This week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias
FICTION
1 Auē by Becky Manawatu (Makaro Press, $35)
Good old Manawatu appeared at the Dunedin Writers Festival last weekend, and she read from her highly anticipated second novel. The passage she read was exhilarating. Afterwards she went on the drink with Talia Marshall, myself, and a crew of four from the Otago Daily Times (star reporter Daisy Hudson and cub reporter Riley Kennedy, and Mike McLeod and Nic Wood from the sub's desk) at The Craic and then Albar, both in the Octagon; she neither drank like a fish nor made an egg of herself, and only good things can be said about her character.
2 Back to You by Tammy Robinson (Hachette, $29.99)
3 Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard (David Bateman, $34.99)
4 Cousins by Patricia Grace (Penguin Random House, $26)
5 The Quiet People by Paul Cleave (Upstart Press, $37.99)
6 Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh (Hachette, $34.99)
7 Spellbound by Catherine Robertson (Penguin Random House, $36)
8 Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press, $35)
9 The Nine Lives of Kitty K. by Margaret Mills (Mary Egan Publishing, $34.99)
10 Sister to Sister by Olivia Hayfield (Hachette, $34.99)
NON-FICTION
1 A High Country Life by Philippa Cameron (Allen & Unwin, $45)
Mother's Day literature.
2 Supergood by Chelsea Winter (Penguin Random House, $50)
Mother's Day literature.
3 Keepers by Cherie Metcalfe (Allen & Unwin, $45)
Mother's Day literature.
4 Aroha by Hinemoa Elder (Penguin Random House, $30)
Whakatauki.
5 The Abundant Garden by Niva Kay & Yotam Kay (Allen & Unwin, $45)
Mother's Day literature.
6 Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail by Danielle Hawkins (HarperCollins, $37.99)
Memoir.
7 My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen (Allen & Unwin, $36)
Memoir.
8 Vegful by Nadia Lim (Nude Food, $55)
Mother's Day literature.
9 Sleep Easy by Bernice Tuffery (Allen & Unwin, $36.99)
Mother's Day literature.
10 My Darling Lemon Thyme by Emma Galloway (HarperCollins, $60)
Mother's Day literature.
