Bug Week
By: Airini Beautrais
3.90
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou…
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1. The Forrests
By: Emily Perkins
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. Fr… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
2. Hera Lindsay Bird
By: Hera Lindsay Bird
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more
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- adult
3. The Bone People
By: Keri Hulme
3.51
Format: None pages,
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estran… read more
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4. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
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5. 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
- adult
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6. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"...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
7. Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.31
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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- contemporary
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
9. 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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- adult
10. 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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"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
11. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
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12. 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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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- adult
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
14. Poor People With Money
By: Dominic Hoey
4.03
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more
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- fiction
15. 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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- contemporary
16. Loop Tracks
By: Sue Orr
4.16
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more
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- literary fiction
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17. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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- adult
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
18. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter
By: Noelle McCarthy
4.13
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more
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19. Eddy, Eddy
By: Kate De Goldi
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddy, Eddy is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
20. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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- adult
21. 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
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- fiction
22. Bird Life
By: Anna Smaill
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration… read more
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- contemporary
23. Needs Adult Supervision
By: Emily Writes
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever thought 'I wish there was an adult around', then realised you're the adult? Emily Writes, best… read more
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"You just love them. Love them till they’re full and you’re full, and love them more."-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
"If you had a natural, drug-free, unmedicated, vaginal, out-your-vagina birth, make sure you tell the world. You should never talk about birth, but you should always talk about it if it was straightfo…"-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
"Make sure you subtly encourage the idea that a c-section or medicated birth or a birth with interventions is a lesser birth, so that the other mum knows she hasn’t reached the pinnacle of birthing. B…"-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
24. Nothing to See
By: Pip Adam
3.85
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their … read more
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25. This Mortal Boy
By: Fiona Kidman
4.12
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealan… read more
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- adult
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26. Kurangaituku
By: Whiti Hereaka
4.34
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kuran… read more
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"The lives I have consumed are countless. The lives you can live within stories are endless. Through story, I gift you my sight. I let you see this world as I see it."-Whiti Hereaka, Kurangaituku
27. Bug Week
By: Airini Beautrais
3.90
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- adult
28. Big Fat Brown Bitch
By: Tusiata Avia
4.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laug… read more
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"Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols <> when our grandmother is dead <> and our father is dead <> and our great uncles and aunties are dead <>"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the …"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
29. The New Ships
By: Kate Duignan
3.79
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife’s death. His attempts to understand the turn his lif… read more
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30. Imagining Decolonisation
By: Biana Elkington
4.59
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and oft… read more
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31. 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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