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1 The Wish Child
Catherine Chidgey
Victoria University Press $30.00
9781776560622
2 Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Thomas L. Friedman
Penguin Random House $40.00
9780241301449
3 The New Zealand Project
Max Harris
Bridget Williams Books $39.99
9780947492588
4 Difficult Women
Roxane Gay
Corsair Hachette $29.99
9781472152770
5 Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Rob Schmitz
John Murray Hachette $24.99
9781444791082
6 Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Corsair Hachette $34.99
9781472119735
7 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Particular Books Penguin Random House $40.00
9780141986005
8 Balancing Acts: Reflections of a New Zealand Diplomat Gerald McGhie
Dunmore Publishing  $34.99
9781927212318
9 Can You Tolerate This?: Personal Essays
Ashleigh Young
Victoria University Press $30.00
9781776560769
10 Capital
John Lanchester
Faber & Faber Faber $24.99
9780571234622
11 See You in September
Charity Norman
Allen & Unwin $32.99
9781743318393
12 Surrounded by Spirit
Kelvin Cruickshank
Penguin Penguin Random House $40.00
9780143770428
13 An Untamed State
Roxane Gay
Corsair Hachette $24.99
9781472119827
14 No Middle Name: Jack Reacher Story Collection
Lee Child
Bantam Dell Penguin Random House $37.00
9780593079027
15 Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
Andrews & McMeel $29.99
9781449474256
16 How to Speak Money
John Lanchester
Faber & Faber Faber $28.99
9780571309849
17 Resolution
A. N. Wilson
Atlantic Books $32.99
9781782398288
18 Into the Water
Paula Hawkins
Doubleday Penguin Random House $38.00
9780857524430
19 Jake Bailey: What Cancer Taught Me
Jake Bailey
Penguin Random House $30.00
9780143770862
20 The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 Vincent O'Malley
Bridget Williams Books $79.99
9781927277577

 

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