Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep…
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1. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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2. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
3. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
4. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
5. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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6. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
7. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)
By: Michael Bennett
3.94
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
10. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- asia
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- contemporary
12. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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13. The Bone Tree
By: Airana Ngarewa
3.71
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more
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- fiction
14. The Night She Fell
By: Eileen Merriman
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more
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15. When I Open the Shop
By: romesh dissanayake
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more
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- contemporary
16. The Call
By: Gavin Strawhan
3.84
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deport… read more
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17. Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
By: Alie Benge
4.46
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back… read more
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18. The Space Between
By: Lauren Keenan
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping historical novel set amidst the New Zealand Wars in 1860. How do you choose between t… read more
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19. Ash
By: Louise Wallace
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more
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20. All That We Know
By: Shilo Kino
4.61
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more
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- fiction
21. Home Truths
By: Charity Norman
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury have reached a verdict. Two years earlier, L… read more
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