5 must-read novels books like Audition by Pip Adam

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Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room…

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1. See You In September

By: Charity Norman

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just word… read more

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2. 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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  • fiction
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3. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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4. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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  • fiction
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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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  • novels
  • queer
  • 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

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7. 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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  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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8. 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
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9. One of Those Mothers

By: Megan Nicol Reed

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more

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  • fiction
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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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  • novels
  • fiction
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11. The Doctor's Wife

By: Fiona Sussman

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in t… read more

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  • fiction
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12. 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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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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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
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14. The Tally Stick

By: Carl Nixon

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

Similar categories in Pip Adam's Audition book and Pip Adam's Audition

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
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17. The Waters

By: Carl Nixon

3.77

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful drea… read more

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  • fiction
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18. People Person

By: Joanna Cho

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more

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19. Dice

By: Claire Baylis

3.86

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Ruin

By: Emma Hislop

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they tr… read more

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21. A Better Place

By: Stephen Daisley

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. … read more

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22. The Last Days of Joy

By: Anne Tiernan

3.97

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

WHEN HER SECRET COMES TO THE SURFACE, CAN HER FAMILY SURVIVE IT? The tender, immersive and beaut… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Golden Days

By: Caroline Barron

3.55

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

'Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'… read more

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24. 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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25. Blood On Vines (The Matakana Series Book 1)

By: Madeleine Eskedahl

3.83

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In New Zealand's Martinborough, an ex-wine maker is murdered. The precise planning and execution by… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Hannah & Huia

By: Charlotte Lobb

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless following the sudden death of h… read more

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27. Rings On Water (The Matakana Series)

By: Madeleine Eskedahl

3.59

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A narcotics pick-up at sea goes horribly wrong. A man is lost overboard. A dangerous series of even… read more

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28. Rings On Water (The Matakana Series Book 2)

By: Madeleine Eskedahl

3.63

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

A narcotics pick-up at sea goes horribly wrong. A man is lost overboard. A dangerous series of even… read more

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29. Savage Point (D.I. Anderson Book 1)

By: Denise Fitzpatrick

3.97

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

A killer is watching... A bride's wedding ends in tragedy when her matron of honour is brutally mur… read more

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30. Brushstrokes of Memory

By: Karen McMillan

3.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel of love, lost memories and rediscovering dreams. On her thirty-second birthday, Rebecca… read more

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Pet

Catherine Chidgey

4.06

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Eleanor Catton

3.82

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Remember Me

Charity Norman

4.33

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How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

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Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

Michael Bennett

3.94

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Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

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