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 Bug Week by Airini Beautrais (Victoria University Press, $30)
Number one for the sixth consecutive week - a miracle for a collection of short stories.
2 Loop Tracks by Sue Orr (Victoria University Press, $35)
From a review by Paddy Richardson, at good old ReadingRoom: "It's a novel rich in reflection and debate over issues such as addiction, ageing, autism, abortion and euthanasia; should men have a say over abortion; should the government control how we should end our lives? Should we trust logic or emotions?...Loop Tracks is a remarkable novel, beautifully and sensitively written."
3 Rangikura by Tayi Tibble (Victoria University Press, $25)
"These poems," said Paul Diamond in his Radio New Zealand review of the Wellington writer's second collection, "are destined to be classics."
4 Auē by Becky Manawatu (Makaro Press, $35)
5 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Victoria University Press, $35)
Shayne Carter went up to Rebecca K Reilly at the launch for Tayi Tibble's book Rangikura, at Time Out bookstore in Auckland, and was overheard saying to the author of a very, very popular and hilarious debut novel, "Your writing is really f**ken funny."
6 Blood on Vines by Madeleine Eskedahl (Squabbling Sparrows Press, $34.95)
7 Cousins by Patricia Grace (Penguin Random House, $26)
8 Back to You by Tammy Robinson (Hachette, $29.99)
9 Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard (David Bateman, $34.99)
10 The Nine Lives of Kitty K. by Margaret Mills (Mary Egan Publishing, $34.99)
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly is the leading contendor to win the 2022 Ockham New Zealand national book award for best first book of fiction but you never know; The Nine Lives of Kitty K. by Margaret Mills has done really well, and is the debut novel of an author in her 91st year.
NON-FICTION
1 Mental Fitness by Paul Wood (HarperCollins, $36.99)
Self-helper. "Stress is the mechanism by which our bodies and minds respond to a challenge. The sensation of psychological stress is no different to thirst or hunger: it’s there to encourage you to take the action that’s necessary to respond to the challenge, prevail and then return to your comfort zone", etc.
2 Aroha by Hinemoa Elder (Penguin Random House, $30)
3 Tikanga by Francis Tipene & Kaiora Tipene (HarperCollins, $39.99)
4 Supergood by Chelsea Winter (Penguin Random House, $50)
5 The Forager's Treasury by Johanna Knox (Allen & Unwin, $45)
6 Matariki by Rangi Matamua (Huia Publishers, $35)
7 To Be Fair by Rosemary Riddell (Upstart Press, $39.99)
8 From the Centre by Patricia Grace (Penguin Random House, $40)
9 The Abundant Garden by Niva Kay & Yotam Kay (Allen & Unwin, $45)
10 Vegful by Nadia Lim (Nude Food, $55)
