GOOD BOOKS bestsellers 2021

Here are the good books we sold the most of over the year that was 2021. Our customers have very great taste, just saying.

ADULT FICTION

1. Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly (VUP)

2. Bug Week by Airini Beautrais (VUP)

3. Spellbound by Catherine Robertson (Penguin Random House NZ)

4. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)

5. Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)

6. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber)

7. She’s a Killer by Kirsten McDougall (VUP)

8. Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro)

9. Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (HUIA)

10. Loop Tracks by Sue Orr (VUP)

ADULT NON FICTION

1. Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts)

2. Aroha by Dr Hinemoa Elder (Penguin Random House NZ)

3. The Forager’s Treasury by Johanna Knox (Allen & Unwin NZ)

4. Her Say by Jackie Clark and the Aunties (Penguin Random House NZ)

5. Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn (Penguin Random House NZ)

6. Helen Kelly: Her Life by Rebecca Macfie (Awa Press)

7. The Abundant Garden by Niva and Yotam Kay (Allen & Unwin NZ)

8. Times Like These by Michelle Langstone (Allen & Unwin NZ)

9. The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw (Penguin Random House NZ)

10. Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles (Canongate)

CHILDREN

1. The Adventures of Mittens by Silvio Bruinsma and Phoebe Morris (Penguin Random House NZ)

2. Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House NZ)

3. The Extremely Inconvenient Adventure of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)

4. Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T.K. Roxborogh (Huia)

5. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (Hachette)

6. Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee (Allen & Unwin)

7. A Mother is a House by Aurore Petit (Gecko Press)

8. The Noisy Book by Soledad Bravi (Gecko Press)

9. The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim (Hachette)

10. = The Pōrangi Boy by Shilo Kino (Huia)

    = Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku (Huia)