1. The Forrests
Emily Perkins
2. The villa girls
Nicky Pellegrino
3. The conductor
Sarah Quigley
4. Skylark
Jenny Pattrick
Sarah-Kate Lynch
Nalini Singh
Nicky Pellegrino
Nicky Pellegrino
9. When in Rome
Nicky Pellegrino
Lloyd Jones
11. Kiss of snow
Nalini Singh
12. The open world
Stephanie Johnson
13. Death on demand
Paul Thomas
Nalini Singh
15. Dinner at Rose's
Danielle Hawkins
16. Landings
Jenny Pattrick
Nalini Singh
18. The faceless
Vanda Symon
19 =. Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
19 =. The Larnachs
Owen Marshall
Not only does Nicky Pellegrino have four titles in the top 10 of this list of most-borrowed books from Auckland libraries for 2012, but also her books sell like hotcakes. Ask any bookseller.
She must be one of
New Zealand’s most biggest best-selling authors ever.
But she has never registered in the top 10
bestseller lists of NZ books published every Friday by Booksellers NZ because
her books are published overseas and what we get are imported editions. So she is
not considered a New Zealand author even though she lives here and all her
novels were written here. I have pointed out the folly of this strange criterion
to the good people at Booksellers NZ – and also to the CEO, Lincoln Gould – but
to no avail.
It’s not just Nicky. Yesterday Craig Ranapia tweeted:
Last person who said “I never read New Zealand literature” to me, had just finished gushing about Paul Cleave. Bless.
1 comment:
I take your point about 'NZ' books, but was surprised you haven't identified the predominant book styles on the list: fantasy (is that the proper term?) and what I call chic(k) lit making a killing.
Nice to see the top book is Emily Perkin's which I enjoyed enormously, borrowed from a library near me (Oz).
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