The only indie book chart published and available in New Zealand is the sales list of the top 10 registered every week at Unity Books stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington.
Auckland
1 Chimamanda Dream Count Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate, $ 38)
The dream count is the first novel in 10 years of the author of half of a yellow sun, Americana, and why we should all be feminists. He tells the story of four migrant women (Chiamaka (“Chia”), Zikora, Omelfo and Kadiatou) and writes a Guardian reviewer, explores how his relationships state the power of female solidarity.
Here is an excerpt from the review: “This novel is of great quantity that Americana, with a collage of femininity gathered around this incident, but gathering childbirth and loss of pregnancy, abortions and hysterectomies, female genital fibroids, sexual aggression and sexual harassment, as if nothing less than all female experience was within its scope. However, at the same time, it is painfully Introspective, Not Only Because it is Set Against The BackDrop of the Covid Pandemic, Built-in Reminder of “How Breakable We All Are”, But Also Because it Includes Many Moments-Such As When, Pondering One of Her Breakups, Chia Musses About “How Quickly Mystery dissolves to dust ” – in Which One Senses The Subliminal Gesture Towards Deeper Traumas, The Feeling of Unbearable Confinement Alongside Floating Alienation, the airtight numbness with which many of us experience sadness. ”
PS: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is expected to appear at a virtual event at Auckland Writers Festival in May.
2 Samantha Harvey Orbital (Jonathan Cape, $ 26)
Last year’s Booker Award winner and one of the shooters of the Auckland writers festival.
3 The theory Let for Mel Robbins (Hay House, $ 32)
Everyone is talking about this book that shows how not to react to behaviors that disturb it and abandon behavior control.
4 How to be wrong by Rowan Simpson (electric fence, $ 40)
“Based on two decades in the heart of New Zealand’s most successful technology companies – change of me, Xero, sell and theportually – Rowan Simpson unravels the confused reality behind brilliant successful family stories. Combining raw honesty and clear analysis, he challenges conventional wisdom, sharing first -hand attractive lessons on focused execution, team construction and genuine ecosystem growth.
This myth guide is an essential reading for founders, investors and policy makers. Simpson shows that embracing uncertainty, recognizing patterns, and learning quickly from errors are not just steps on the way to success – they are their own way. ”
5 Asako yuzuki butter (fourth Estate, $ 35)
Read the book, go and see the author live at the Auckland Writers festival, where you will be talking to Jean Teng and eating food on stage for one and only Sam Low.
6 Amma de Saraid de Silva (Hachette, $ 38)
Listed for the Women’s Award, along with the author of Book Number 1, above!
The recount of Cook’s last journey.
9 The vegetarian of Han Kang (Portobello Books, $ 28)
Impressive, strange and small novel about female resistance.
10 Twist of Colum McCann (Bloomsbury UK, $ 37)
Ireland’s last novel. Here is the editor’s synopsis:
“Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is designated to cover the subacous cables that carry the information of the world. The sum of human-word existence, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses approaches the small fiber optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, to an unfathomable depth.
Fennell’s journey takes him to the west coast of Africa, where he discovers a story about raw human work behind the stunning varnish of the technological world. He meets an Irish colleague, John Conway, mission chief on a cable repair ship. The mysterious conway is a qualified engineer and a freedive capable of achieving extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a south -African actress, Zanele, who should go out to go to her own literary adventure to London.
When the ship is sent by the coast to repair a number of major underwater intervals, the two men learn that the same cables seeking to fix the news that can make their lives divert. At sea, they are forced to face the most elementary issues of life, love, absence, belonging and dangers of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reformulate the fine and broken wires of our pasts? Can the broken things awaken us from our despair? ”
Wellington
1 Samantha Harvey Orbital (Jonathan Cape, $ 26)
2 Asako yuzuki butter (fourth Estate, $ 35)
3 delirious by Damian Wilkins (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $ 38)
4 Amma by Saraid de Silva (Hachette, $ 38)
5 Understanding Ti Tirita by Roimata Smail (Wai Ako Press, $ 25)
The favorite guide to leave your facts directly around Te Tiriti.
6 Chimamanda Dream Count ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate, $ 38)
7 How to be wrong by Rowan Simpson (electric fence, $ 40)
8 Route 52: A large piece of country unknown to Simon Burt (Ugly Hill, $ 40)
Observational writing of the roads between Masterrton and Waipukuarau.
9 Theory Let for Mel Robbins (Hay House, $ 32)
10 Three days in June Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, $ 36)
More comforting, perfectly told by Queen Tyler fiction. Here is a nugget of a brilliant review at The Guardian: “THere is a scene close to the end of Anne Tyler’s new novel, three days in June, where the two main characters, a divorced middle-aged couple called Gail and Max, compare their lives with the movie’s Ground DayLike this, “Where people live on the same day repeatedly until they hit,” Gail recalls him. “Wouldn’t it be great if the world worked this way?” Says Max. Instead, Tyler’s novels are records of the countless ways people understand it wrong and learn to live with it, and how wrong things have a sneaky habit eventually becoming right. ”
