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Memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies about New Zealanders
1.
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir
by:
Sam Neill
4.04 avg rating β 5,650 ratings
2.
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
by:
Janet Frame
4.21 avg rating β 2,516 ratings
2.
The Collector: A Biography of Andreas Reischek
by:
Michael King
4.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
4.
All Blacks Don't Cry
by:
John Kirwan
3.89 avg rating β 467 ratings
4.
Most happy fella: A biography of Inia Te Wiata
by:
Beryl Margaret McMillan Te Wiata
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
6.
Impossible: My Story
by:
Stan Walker
4.25 avg rating β 694 ratings
6.
Pill popper, or, Live and die
by:
Claire Templeton
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
8.
After the Tampa
by:
Abbas Nazari
4.67 avg rating β 1,582 ratings
8.
The Loner: Story of Joe Driscoll
by:
Ivan Agnew
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
10.
The Bookseller at the End of the World
by:
Ruth Shaw
4.22 avg rating β 6,668 ratings
10.
About Time: The Biography of a New Zealand Prison Chaplain
by:
Marie Gray
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
12.
The Plodding Shoe: New Zealand's Modern Walking Great Grandmother
by:
Kitty O'Sullivan
did not like it 1.00 avg rating β 1 rating
12.
Ngaio Marsh: her life in crime
by:
Joanne Drayton
3.75 avg rating β 57 ratings
14.
Mihipeka: Early years
by:
Mihi Edwards
3.95 avg rating β 22 ratings
14.
Straight from the Pig's Mouth
by:
Al Lester
3.83 avg rating β 96 ratings
16.
MΔori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood
by:
Witi Ihimaera
4.20 avg rating β 171 ratings
16.
Stoned on duty
by:
Bruce Ansley
4.21 avg rating β 14 ratings
18.
The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man: An Autobiography
by:
Barry Crump
3.72 avg rating β 47 ratings
18.
My Life As A Miracle: The Wizard of New Zealand
by:
The Wizard
2.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
20.
Valerie: The autobiography
by:
Valerie Adams
3.88 avg rating β 51 ratings
20.
The Demon Profession
by:
Laws Michael
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
22.
The Kiwi Pair
by:
Hamish Bond
4.26 avg rating β 172 ratings
23.
Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life: A Literary Portrait of New Zealand's Best-Loved Children's Author
by:
Tessa Duder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 42 ratings
24.
Steven Adams: My Life, My Fight
by:
Steven Adams
4.21 avg rating β 774 ratings
25.
Native Son: The Writer's Memoir
by:
Witi Ihimaera
4.40 avg rating β 43 ratings
26.
Husna's Story: My Wife, the Christchurch Massacre & My Journey to Forgiveness
by:
Farid Ahmed
4.15 avg rating β 224 ratings
27.
Hayden Paddon: Driven
by:
Hayden Paddon
4.37 avg rating β 38 ratings
28.
Straight Up
by:
Ruby Tui
4.37 avg rating β 2,423 ratings
29.
Blake: Leader: Leadership Lessons From a Great New Zealander
by:
Mark Orams
4.45 avg rating β 11 ratings
30.
Always Going Home
by:
Frances Edmond
2.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
31.
Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar
by:
Kita Mean
4.02 avg rating β 167 ratings
32.
A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons
by:
Gareth Hughes
4.18 avg rating β 71 ratings
33.
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything
by:
Claire Harman
4.14 avg rating β 135 ratings
34.
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump
by:
The Crump Brothers
3.76 avg rating β 83 ratings
35.
Mophead (Mophead #1)
by:
Selina Tusitala Marsh
4.51 avg rating β 221 ratings
36.
A Forager's Life
by:
Helen Lehndorf
4.21 avg rating β 156 ratings
37.
He Pukapuka TΔtaku i NgΔ Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui / A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha
by:
Tamihana Te Rauparaha
4.43 avg rating β 23 ratings
38.
Mihaia: The Prophet Rua Kenana and His Community at Maungapohatu
by:
Judith Binney
4.33 avg rating β 15 ratings
39.
How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World
by:
Simon Grigg
4.50 avg rating β 34 ratings
40.
Rugby Head
by:
Greg Bruce
4.15 avg rating β 20 ratings
41.
Ross Taylor: Black & White
by:
Paul Thomas
4.07 avg rating β 147 ratings
42.
She Is Not Your Rehab: One Manβs Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired
by:
Matt Brown
4.59 avg rating β 413 ratings
43.
Tough Outback
by:
Mike Bellamy
3.27 avg rating β 15 ratings
44.
The Mirror Book
by:
Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91 avg rating β 731 ratings
45.
From the Centre: A Writer's Life
by:
Patricia Grace
4.40 avg rating β 202 ratings
46.
Raiment: A memoir
by:
Jan Kemp
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
47.
Under a Big Sky: Facing the Elements on a New Zealand Farm
by:
Tim Saunders
4.12 avg rating β 26 ratings
48.
These Two Hands
by:
Renee .
4.17 avg rating β 30 ratings
49.
Ideals are like Stars
by:
Angela Walker
4.20 avg rating β 15 ratings
50.
Enough Horizon: The life and work of Blanche Baughan
by:
Carol Markwell
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
51.
A Fish in the Swim of the World
by:
Ben Brown
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings
52.
Not That I'd Kiss A Girl: A Kiwi girl's tale of coming out and coming of age
by:
Lil O'Brien
4.18 avg rating β 663 ratings
53.
Blood and Bone: Revelations of an Orthopaedic Surgeon
by:
Russell Tregonning
3.94 avg rating β 17 ratings
54.
Kate Edger: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist
by:
Diana Morrow
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
55.
This PΔkehΔ Life: An Unsettled Memoir
by:
Alison Jones
4.33 avg rating β 424 ratings
56.
So Far, For Now
by:
Fiona Kidman
3.95 avg rating β 65 ratings
57.
To Be Fair: Confessions of a District Court Judge
by:
Rosemary Riddell
3.91 avg rating β 223 ratings
58.
A Parallel Universe: A Quirky Memoir of Growing Up in 1960s New Zealand
by:
Cheryl Nicol
3.84 avg rating β 25 ratings
59.
Simply by Sailing in a New Direction: Allen Curnow: A Biography
by:
Terry Sturm
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
60.
Steve Hansen: The Legacy
by:
Gregor Paul
4.22 avg rating β 114 ratings
61.
Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke
by:
Maureen Birchfield
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
62.
Annette King: The Authorised Biography
by:
John Harvey
3.29 avg rating β 14 ratings
63.
Rolling with the Punchlines
by:
Urzila Carlson
4.07 avg rating β 829 ratings
64.
Farm for Life: Mahi, mana and life on the land
by:
Tangaroa Walker
4.40 avg rating β 43 ratings
65.
Pull No Punches: Memoir of a political survivor
by:
Judith Collins
3.78 avg rating β 219 ratings
66.
Never Give Up
by:
Ian Winson
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
67.
Goneville
by:
Nick Bollinger
4.16 avg rating β 55 ratings
68.
what does the sea sound like?
by:
Evie Mahoney
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
69.
Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond
by:
Paul Kilgour
4.14 avg rating β 225 ratings
70.
A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan
by:
Peter Whiteford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
71.
Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile
by:
Helena Wisniewska Brow
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings
72.
She Dared To Speak:Connie Birchfield's Story
by:
Maureen Birchfield
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
73.
The Search for Anne Perry
by:
Joanne Drayton
3.28 avg rating β 1,104 ratings
74.
Bright Star: Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer
by:
Christine Cole Catley
3.86 avg rating β 35 ratings
75.
Fleur: The Life & Times Of Pioneering Restaurateur Fleur Sullivan
by:
Fleur Sullivan
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings
76.
Fearless: The life of adventurer, equestrian and endurance rider Chloe Phillips-Harris
by:
Chloe Phillips-Harris
4.50 avg rating β 74 ratings
77.
The Open Side
by:
Richie McCaw
3.98 avg rating β 241 ratings
78.
Sarah Mathew: Explorer, journalist and Auckland's 'First Lady'
by:
Tessa Duder
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
79.
Len Lye
by:
Roger Horrocks
4.31 avg rating β 16 ratings
80.
White Moko: Stories from my life
by:
Tim Tipene
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
81.
Jonah Lomu Autobiography
by:
Jonah Lomu
4.02 avg rating β 188 ratings
82.
Dan Carter - My Story
by:
Duncan Greive
3.76 avg rating β 499 ratings
83.
Fridays with Jim: Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger
by:
David Cohen
3.72 avg rating β 18 ratings
84.
Lost and Found: My story of Heartbreak and Hope
by:
Toni Street
4.44 avg rating β 958 ratings
85.
Bella: My life in food
by:
Annabel Langbein
4.27 avg rating β 150 ratings
86.
You have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956β1986 (2) (C. K. Stead Memoirs)
by:
C.K. Stead
3.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
87.
Maurice Gee: Life and Work
by:
Rachel Barrowman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17 ratings
88.
The Seven Lives of Lady Barker: Author of Station life in New Zealand
by:
Betty Gilderdale
3.67 avg rating β 21 ratings
89.
Ray Columbus: The Modfather: Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer
by:
Ray Columbus
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
90.
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
by:
Gregory O'Brien
4.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
91.
My Father's Island: A Memoir
by:
Adam Dudding
4.08 avg rating β 124 ratings
92.
Kiri: The Authorized Biography of Kiri Te Kanawa
by:
David Fingleton
2.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
93.
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd
by:
Finlay MacDonald
4.22 avg rating β 27 ratings
94.
Willie Apiata VC: The Reluctant Hero
by:
Paul Little
3.90 avg rating β 105 ratings
95.
Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard a memoir
by:
Peta Mathias
3.55 avg rating β 44 ratings
96.
Steve Williams: Out of the Rough
by:
Steve Williams
3.89 avg rating β 659 ratings
97.
Lydia Ko Portrait of a teen golfing sensation
by:
Michael Donaldson
3.95 avg rating β 20 ratings
98.
Changing Pace
by:
Richard Hadlee
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
99.
A Sharp Left Turn
by:
Mike Chunn
4.09 avg rating β 57 ratings
100.
Family Business: An ItalianβNew Zealand Story
by:
Vincent Moleta
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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