TOPSHOT – US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama read Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to children at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2016. Some 35,000 guests have been invited to participate in the 138th annual Easter Egg roll. The theme of the day’s event is Let’s Celebrate! / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT – US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama read Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to children at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2016. Some 35,000 guests have been invited to participate in the 138th annual Easter Egg roll. The theme of the day’s event is Let’s Celebrate! / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

BooksApril 21, 2017

Unity Books best-seller chart for the week ending April 22

Staff writers
TOPSHOT – US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama read Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to children at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2016. Some 35,000 guests have been invited to participate in the 138th annual Easter Egg roll. The theme of the day’s event is Let’s Celebrate! / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT – US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama read Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to children at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2016. Some 35,000 guests have been invited to participate in the 138th annual Easter Egg roll. The theme of the day’s event is Let’s Celebrate! / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

The best-selling books at the world’s best two bookstores.

AUCKLAND UNITY

1 The New Zealand Project by Max Harris (Bridget Williams Books, $40)

Woah, number one in Auckland and Wellington! We really must approach the publisher and ask for an excerpt from this geek-lit best-seller.

2 Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (Chatto & Windus, $37)

We look forward to the forthcoming review by Kim Hill.

3 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Ravioli & Francesca Cavallo (Particular Books)

Children’s book.

4 The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld Publications, $28)

He’s appearing at the AWF.

5 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury, $33)

So’s he.

6 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury, $30)

Maggots formed on Ymir’s skin as he was killed by  Odin; Odin transformed the maggots into dwarves.

7 The Road to Ruins: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards (Portfolio Penguin, $40)

They’re all out to fuck us over, etc.

8 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage, $30)

It’s not that brief.

9 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (Macmillan, $35)

It’s not that subtle.

10  Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Penguin, $30)

Email from a Herald reader to Steve Braunias, following his recent “secret diary” satire on White House press secretary Sean Spicer: “Spicer doesn’t think the Holocaust happened. You seem to believe it. That makes you the fool.” Subject line of email: “Holocaust is a load of shit invented by shitty jews.”

 

WELLINGTON UNITY

1 The New Zealand Project by Max Harris (Bridget Williams Books, $40)

2 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo (Particular Books, $40)

3 Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press, $30)

“Without doubt the most incredible writing I’ve read all year. Brava”: Marlborough writer and farmer Sarah Leov, Twitter.

4 The Thirst by Jo Nesbo (Harvill Secker, $37)

A Harry Hole detective novel.

5 Lifting by Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press, $30)

We look forward to the forthcoming review by Linda Burgess.

6 Breaking Ranks by James McNeish (HarperCollins, $35)

“The book takes three extraordinary New Zealanders and examines their brilliance and their downfall…elegant and precise, intimate and thoughtful”: Finlay Macdonald, the Spinoff Review of Books.

7 New Zealand’s Prime Ministers by Michael Bassett (David Ling, $50)

Cover of the year! Have you seen it? Amazing! The actual book, meh.

8 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Piatkus, $28)

US Fiction.

More Reading

    9 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury, $30)

    10 The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press, $30)

    NZ fiction.

    Keep going!