The best-seller chart at Unity Books for the week just ended: October 7

Steve Braunias is on a well-deserved break this week and as a result, the best-seller lists are presented without comment.

WELLINGTON STORE

1 Constitution for Aotearoa NZ (Victoria University Press, $25) by Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler

2 Like Nobody’s Watching (Escalator Press, $25) by L J Ritchie

3 Born to Run (Simon & Schuster, $50) by Bruce Springsteen

4 Scrumptious (PenguinRandom, $50) by Chelsea Winter

5 Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life (Viking,$38) by John Le Carre

6 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harville Secker, $40) by Yuval Noah Harari

7 Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved & Died in The 1940s (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, $40) by Anne Sebba

8 Mansfield & Me: A Graphic Memoir (Victoria University Press, $35) by Sarah Laing

9 Nutshell (Jonathan Cape, $38) by Ian McEwan

10 Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression & Recovery in NZ 1928-39 (Otago University Press, $50) by Malcolm McKinnon

AUCKLAND STORE

1 Born to Run (Simon & Schuster, $50) by Bruce Springsteen 

2 The Pigeon Tunnel: Strories from My Life (Viking, $38) by John le Carré

3 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harvill Secker, $40) by Yuval Noah Harari

4 Known and Strange Things (Faber & Faber, $33) by Teju Cole

5 Red Herring (HarperCollins, $37) by Jonothan Cullinane

6 A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand (Victoria University Press, $25) by Geoffrey Palmer & Andrew Butler

7 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $40) by Adam Rutherford

8 The Sellout (Oneworld, $28) by Paul Beatty

9 Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press, $25) by Hera Lindsay Bird

10 Nutshell (Jonathan Cape, $38) by Ian McEwan