The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books\u2019 stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.<\/p>\n
AUCKLAND<\/p>\n
1 One Last Question, Prime Minister<\/a> by Barry Soper (Harper Collins, $40)<\/p>\n \u201cSoper was there when Muldoon still roamed the Earth and gave drunken interviews, and was able, as someone outside the caucus, to tally up the numbers and confidently predict Bill English\u2019s rolling as National leader in 2002,\u201d writes The Spinoff\u2019s Lyric Waiwiri-Smith in her insightful review.<\/a> \u201cHaving just reported on our current prime minister surviving a confidence vote last week, it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine calling up all 48 National MPs, have them honestly tell you whether or not they genuinely backed Luxon, and know his fate before he does.\u201d<\/p>\n 2 London Falling\u00a0<\/a>by Patrick Radden Keefe (Picador, $40)<\/p>\n Have a listen to this brief but insightful conversation<\/a> between Radden Keefe and The New Yorker\u2019s David Remnick \u2013 they discuss the basis for this book and afterward you\u2019ll want to run out and buy it.<\/p>\n 3 Invisible Intelligence: Why Your Child Might Not Be Failing<\/a> by Welby Ings (Otago University Press, $45)\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t understand why our current framing of literacy is still so culturally selective. Aotearoa New Zealand is a country with three official languages, but we factor only one into our assessments.\u201d Read the rest of Ings\u2019 essay on the experiences that led to this luminous book, over on e-Tangata.<\/a><\/p>\n 4 Project Hail Mary<\/a> by Andy Weir (Penguin, $28)<\/p>\n Just the sweetest interspecies bromance you\u2019ll ever read \/ watch.<\/p>\n 5 Famesick<\/a>\u00a0by Lena Dunham (Harper Collins, $40)\u00a0<\/p>\n A moreish, relatively hectic memoir from the creator of one of the great TV triumphs: Girls. Dunham recounts, in detail, how chronic illness coincided with sudden, intense fame.<\/p>\n 6 Things We Never Say<\/a>\u00a0by Elizabeth Strout (Viking Penguin, $38)<\/p>\n Strout fans around the world are jumping on Artie\u2019s story. Here\u2019s the blurb:<\/p>\n \u201cArtie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad \u2013 at himself and the people around him \u2013 and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?<\/p>\n And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear \u2013 and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.\u201d<\/p>\n 7 Yesteryear<\/a>\u00a0by Caro Claire Burke (Fourth Estate, $37)<\/p>\n The book that Anne Hathaway bought the rights to: the one about the trad wife who wakes up in the actual trad past.<\/p>\n 8 News From Dublin<\/a> by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn (Picador, $38)<\/p>\n Short stories from a master.<\/p>\n 9 The<\/a> Correspondent<\/a> by Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, $38)<\/p>\n One of the book club hits of the year and shortlisted for the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction 2026.<\/p>\n 10 Fruit Fly<\/a> by Josh Silver (Oneworld, $37)<\/p>\n A satire about the publishing industry.<\/p>\n WELLINGTON<\/p>\n 1 Paper Husbands<\/a> by Nick Sceats (The Cuba Press, $38)<\/p>\n Brilliant work by debut novelist Nick Sceats and indie publisher, The Cuba Press! Here\u2019s the blurb for this banger:<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the 1990s and Paper Husbands are finally making headway \u2013 they\u2019ve got a song on high rotation on student radio and have been given the opportunity of a lifetime to open for UK legends Shimmer. The disappearance of frontman Pete shatters those plans, leaving the rest of the band to lead decidedly non-rock \u2018n\u2019 roll lives in the years that follow. Three decades later, Bob the drummer runs into Pete in a bar, and a casual catch-up leads to them saying the most dangerous words any musician can utter: \u2018Let\u2019s get the band back together.\u2019 But Paper Husbands soon discover that band life is much harder when you\u2019re no longer in your twenties, especially when you want a second shot at the rock show of your dreams. An entertaining and refreshing debut, Paper Husbands is an uplifting story of male friendship and the transcendent power of music.\u201d<\/p>\n 2 London Falling\u00a0<\/a>by Patrick Radden Keefe (Picador, $40)<\/p>\n 3 One Last Question, Prime Minister<\/a> by Barry Soper (Harper Collins, $40)<\/p>\n 4 Project Hail Mary<\/a> by Andy Weir (Penguin, $28)<\/p>\n 5 Famesick<\/a>\u00a0by Lena Dunham (Harper Collins, $40)\u00a0<\/p>\n 6 Things We Never Say<\/a>\u00a0by Elizabeth Strout (Viking Penguin, $38)<\/p>\n 7 Yesteryear<\/a>\u00a0by Caro Claire Burke (Fourth Estate, $37)<\/p>\n 8 The Chief & the Empire<\/a> by Eugene Bingham (Allen & Unwin, $40)<\/p>\n The fascinating true story of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi who was wrongly blamed for a deadly attack on a British ship and killed. \u201cPart history, part true-crime investigation, this is a riveting account of Te Pahi\u2019s remarkable journey and early M\u0101ori-P\u0101keh\u0101 encounters, the injustice that destroyed a leader, and the unexpected legacy carried by the descendants of the men he fought to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n 9 The<\/a> Correspondent<\/a> by Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, $38)<\/p>\n