The only best-selling books chart published and available in New Zealand is the weekly top 10 chart recorded at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington.
AUCKLAND UNITY
1 The Fast 800 by Dr Michael Mosley (Simon & Schuster, $35)
We look forward to AUT diet researcher George Henderson’s review next week at The Spinoff Review of Books of Mosley’s latest weight-loss instruction manual.
2 Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, $23)
Rooney! It’s a legal requirement to read both her novels this summer.
3 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson (MacMillan, $35)
Thanks to Manson’s wildly popular instruction manual, no one gives a flying fuck about anything anymore. Rejoice!
4 Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, $33)
5 The Spy & the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre (Viking, $40)
Supposedly the greatest espionage story of the Cold War.
6 Becoming by Michelle Obama (Penguin Random House, $55)
“Would Michelle have ever worn a jacket with I DON’T CARE, DO YOU? emblazoned on the back? God no. She’d never be that stupid, or that callous. She’s the sort of woman that other women like. Love”: Linda Burgess, The Spinoff Review of Books.
7 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage, $38)
Wildly popular second-rate thinking.
8 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage, $30)
More wildly popular second-rate thinking.
9 Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press, $65)
“It’s a damn fine buy, and all the more so if it’s your first time with Ottolenghi, if you’re coming to him as virginal as a bottle of local olive oil. The internet could well mean the end of the cookery book as we know it: this book could one day be a collector’s item”: Linda Burgess, The Spinoff Review of Books.
10 Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber, $33)
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker prize for fiction.
WELLINGTON UNITY
1 Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber, $33)
2 Becoming by Michelle Obama (Viking, $55)
3 Ottolenghi: Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press, $60)
4 Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber, $33)
5 Less by Andrew Sean Greer (LittleBrown, $25)
Greer, speaking about his wildly popular novel in an interview this week with The Times of India: “I never think of Less as the travails of being a writer, or of a gay man. I think of it as the foolishness of being American. Of being arrogant and wrong all the time.”
6 The Fast 800 by Dr Michael Mosley (Simon & Schuster, $35)
7 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage, $30)
8 The Spy & the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre (Viking, $40)
9 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (Jonathan Cape, $38)
10 Dare to Lead: Bold Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brene Brown (Vermillion, $38)
“I am,” says Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston who spent seven years researching her best-selling study of what makes a great business leader, “unapologetically ambitious.”