A decade of New Zealand Bestsellers to celebrate
A decade of New Zealand Bestsellers to celebrate this NZ Bookshop Day
Seven NZ novels, eight children’s & YA books and five non-fiction titles comprise the Top 20 Bestsellers voted as favourites by booksellers from all over New Zealand. Now, the public have their opportunity to vote for their Bestseller of the Decade, in celebration of the fourth annual NZ Bookshop Day on Saturday, 27 October.
The
Nielsen Bestsellers list is the pinnacle of cooperation
within the book industry. Without the efforts of authors,
publishers, booksellers, media and of course our end users
the readers, our homegrown titles can easily disappear
within a crowded shelf in a bookstore. Chair of Booksellers
NZ and Manager of VicBooks and Café Juliet Blyth
says,
‘Knowing what is selling week in and week out is
incredibly important to the book industry, and we are
excited to celebrate 10 years of Nielsen bestsellers this
year. Our booksellers have chosen their Top 20 bestselling
titles, and they are the experts, so you can be sure these
are all quality books.’
Nielsen BookScan began
recording book sales in New Zealand in December 2008,
showing booksellers, publishers and the public where our
national interest lies. The 60 titles which our expert
booksellers voted from comprised our 20 top selling NZ
Fiction, Non-fiction and Children’s & YA books.
Here is
the list the experts picked as their Booksellers’ Top 20
Bestsellers of the Decade:
• All Blacks
Don't Cry, by John Kirwan (Penguin NZ)
•
Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook, by Annabel
Langbein (Annabel Langbein)
• As the Earth
Turns Silver, by Alison Wong (Penguin NZ)
•
Badjelly the Witch, by Spike Milligan (Puffin)
• Chappy, by Patricia Grace (Penguin
NZ)
• Eat, by Chelsea Winter (Penguin
NZ)
• Edmonds Cookery Book, by Goodman
Fielder (Hachette NZ)
• Grandma Joins the
All Blacks, by Helen McKinlay (HarperCollins NZ)
•
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, by Lynley Dodd
(Puffin)
• Herbert: The Brave Sea Dog,
by Robyn Belton (Potton & Burton)
• Mister
Pip, by Lloyd Jones (Penguin NZ)
• Moo
and Moo and the Little Calf Too, by Deborah Hinde & Jane
Millton (Allen & Unwin NZ)
• New Zealand
Landscapes, by Andris Apse (Potton & Burton)
•
The 10pm Question, by Kate De Goldi (Longacre)
• The Conductor, by Sarah Quigley
(Vintage)
• The Hut Builder, by
Laurence Fearnley (Vintage)
• The Little
Yellow Digger, by Betty Gilderdale (Scholastic NZ)
• The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
(VUP)
• The Wish Child, by Catherine
Chidgey (VUP)
• The Wonky Donkey, by
Craig Smith & Katz Cowley (Scholastic NZ)
Bookshops all
over New Zealand will be celebrating these titles with
events and celebrations on NZ Bookshop Day, Saturday 27
October.
And there is a chance to win one of two prizes
$500 of Book Tokens to fuel your future reading habits!
While the Bestseller of the Decade will be decided by
whichever title receives the most votes, all voters both
online and offline will be entered into a random draw for
$500 Book Tokens.
Voting is now open at
https://www.booksellers.co.nz/votebestsellers. Join in and
celebrate our nation’s literary success stories this NZ
Bookshop Day.
ENDS