The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and nonfiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic.
Catherine Chidgey is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and university lecturer. She has published eight novels. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ; the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on two occasions; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize.
The South Island takahē is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family. It is often known by the abbreviated name takahē, which it shares with the recently extinct North Island takahē. The two takahē species are also known as notornis.
The Battle of the Labyrinth is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the fourth novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. The novel was first published in the United States on 6 May 2008 by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide. It has been published in hardcover, audiobook, ebook, and large-print editions. To date, The Battle of the Labyrinth has been translated into 29 languages from its original English.
George O'Connor is an American-born author, cartoonist and illustrator living in Brooklyn.
Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in Ormond House in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It is perhaps best known for publishing Aravind Adiga's debut novel The White Tiger, which received the 40th Man Booker Prize in 2008, and for its long-standing relationship with the late Christopher Hitchens.
Dean O'Brien, known by his stage name Mr Yipadee or Deano Yipadee, is a children's author, musician, and producer, who has performed in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Soman Chainani is an American author and filmmaker, best known for writing the children's book series The School for Good and Evil.
The Rosie Effect is a 2014 novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion and the second book of a trilogy including the previous instalment, The Rosie Project, and its sequel, The Rosie Result. The work was first published on 24 September 2014 in Australia / New Zealand by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in 24 other territories. International sales are more than 1 million copies. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. The novel centres on Don Tillman, a socially awkward genetics professor, and his preparation for fatherhood.
Jackie Davis is a New Zealand author, poet, and playwright.
David Henry Halford Coventry is a New Zealand born author and musician. Published in six different languages, his debut novel, The Invisible Mile (2015), was the winner of the 2016 Hubert Church Award for Fiction, shortlisted for both the Ockham New Zealand Book Award and the Sports Book Awards in the United Kingdom. His work has been compared to that of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Thomas Mann. Coventry's second novel, Dance Prone, explores trauma, art and 1980s' post-hardcore punk rock. It was published in 2020.
Toni Jordan is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel Addition, an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2017 her fourth book, Our Tiny Useless Hearts, was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. Her novel Nine Days was named the Indie Book of the Year by the Australian Booksellers in 2013. Her most recent novel Prettier if she Smiled More was called 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'. She currently teaches at the Faber Academy.
Maggie Rainey-Smith is a novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist and book reviewer. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Darcie Little Badger is an American author and Earth scientist.
Michael Stephen Botur is a New Zealand author described as "one of the most original story writers of his generation in New Zealand." As a journalist, he has published longform news articles in VICE World News, NZ Listener, New Zealand Herald, Herald on Sunday, Sunday Star-Times, The Spinoff, Mana and North & South. His short fiction and poetry has been published in most New Zealand literary journals including Landfall, Poetry New Zealand and Newsroom. In 2023 he founded the mentoring service Creative Writing Northland.
Rachel Bush was a New Zealand poet and teacher. Her work was widely published in books, anthologies and literary magazines.
Dance Prone is the second novel by New Zealand author David Coventry. Released in July 2020, the novel examines the post-hardcore scene in the US during the mid-1980s and the traumatic effects of sexual abuse met upon several of the novels characters over the following decades. 'Filtered through a screen of trauma and amnesia' the novel is 'part whodunnit, and part philosophical voyage.'
Hamish Carson is a middle distance athlete from New Zealand. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres.
Caz Frear is a British mystery fiction novelist. Her 2018 work Sweet Little Lies was published after winning the Richard & Judy "Search for a Bestseller" competition in 2017.
Kirsten McDougall is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and creative writing lecturer. She has published three novels, and won the 2021 Sunday Star-Times short story competition.
