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50 Best New Zealand Books since 1968
1.
The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)
by:
Elizabeth Knox
3.88 avg rating — 3,626 ratings
2.
Mister Pip
by:
Lloyd Jones
3.68 avg rating — 23,798 ratings
3.
The Bone People
by:
Keri Hulme
4.04 avg rating — 23,582 ratings
4.
Once Were Warriors
by:
Alan Duff
3.99 avg rating — 3,742 ratings
5.
Plumb (Plumb, #1)
by:
Maurice Gee
3.89 avg rating — 504 ratings
6.
To the Is-land: An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1)
by:
Janet Frame
4.06 avg rating — 796 ratings
7.
Potiki
by:
Patricia Grace
3.88 avg rating — 2,373 ratings
8.
The Luminaries
by:
Eleanor Catton
3.75 avg rating — 84,461 ratings
9.
The Book of Fame
by:
Lloyd Jones
3.79 avg rating — 363 ratings
10.
The Treaty of Waitangi
by:
Claudia Orange
4.16 avg rating — 83 ratings
11.
Novel About My Wife
by:
Emily Perkins
3.33 avg rating — 997 ratings
12.
Living in the Maniototo
by:
Janet Frame
3.80 avg rating — 371 ratings
13.
Tu
by:
Patricia Grace
3.96 avg rating — 540 ratings
14.
Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died
by:
Rebecca Macfie
4.54 avg rating — 278 ratings
15.
The Rehearsal
by:
Eleanor Catton
3.43 avg rating — 6,420 ratings
16.
Bad blood: the story of Stanley Graham
by:
H.A. Willis
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
17.
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
by:
Janet Frame
4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
18.
Redemption Songs: a Life of the Nineteenth-century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
by:
Judith Binney
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
19.
Other Halves
by:
Sue McCauley
3.71 avg rating — 107 ratings
20.
Te Puea: a biography
by:
Michael King
4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
21.
Can You Tolerate This?
by:
Ashleigh Young
3.97 avg rating — 787 ratings
22.
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
by:
Atholl Anderson
4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings
23.
The Life of Katherine Mansfield
by:
Antony Alpers
3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
24.
Pounamu Pounamu
by:
Witi Ihimaera
4.18 avg rating — 811 ratings
25.
Smith's Dream
by:
C.K. Stead
3.64 avg rating — 179 ratings
26.
The Sugarbag Years: An Oral History of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand
by:
Tony Simpson
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
27.
Not Her Real Name and Other Stories
by:
Emily Perkins
4.09 avg rating — 216 ratings
28.
The South Island of New Zealand From the Road
by:
Robin Morrison
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
29.
Hera Lindsay Bird
by:
Hera Lindsay Bird
4.23 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
30.
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas
by:
Anne Salmond
4.15 avg rating — 172 ratings
31.
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964
by:
Chris Bourke
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
32.
Tangi
by:
Witi Ihimaera
4.31 avg rating — 433 ratings
33.
Lifted
by:
Bill Manhire
4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
34.
Moriori: a People Rediscovered
by:
Michael King
4.58 avg rating — 53 ratings
35.
Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World
by:
Steve Braunias
4.24 avg rating — 131 ratings
36.
The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles
by:
H.W. Orsman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
37.
Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman
by:
Amiria Manutahi Stirling
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
38.
Bread and Roses: Sonja Davies - Her Story
by:
Sonja Davies
4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
39.
Shape-shifter
by:
Hone Tuwhare
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
40.
All Visitors Ashore
by:
C.K. Stead
3.92 avg rating — 110 ratings
41.
A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case
by:
Lynley Hood
4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
42.
The Unfortunate Experiment the Full Story Behind the Inquiry Into Cervical Cancer Treatment
by:
Sandra Coney
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
43.
Opportunity
by:
Charlotte Grimshaw
3.65 avg rating — 113 ratings
44.
Let the River Stand
by:
Vincent O'Sullivan
3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
45.
The art of Grahame Sydney
by:
Grahame Sydney
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
46.
Maori: A Photographic and Social History
by:
Michael King
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
47.
Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand
by:
Audrey Lily Eagle
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
48.
The 10 PM Question
by:
Kate De Goldi
3.79 avg rating — 3,153 ratings
49.
Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772
by:
Anne Salmond
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
50.
Rita Angus: An Artist's Life
by:
Jill Trevelyan
4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
51.
Oracles and Miracles
by:
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
3.93 avg rating — 137 ratings