Books from New Zealand
46 popular new zealand books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Oceania Challenge" were written by authors from New Zealand.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this bold and ingenious thriller questions what it means to be human as philosophical questions collide with technology.
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton. The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as necromantic skeletons. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of serv... continue
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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy is the hilarious rhyming classic by Lynley Dodd.Hairy Maclary goes off for a walk in town, followed by doggish friends of all shapes and sizes. One by one they join Hairy Maclary until they meet SCARFACE CLAW! Scarface Claw is the toughest Tom in town, and causes all the others to run for home. The brilliant cumulative rhyme and terrific pictures of this story has turned it into a classic - and it is still one of the most popular picture books today.Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. She is enormously popular for he... continue
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Hollowpox : The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
"Morrigan Crow must uncover the mystery behind a new disease spreading through Nevermoor"--
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Island of the Lost : An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
“Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best—and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave’s schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another... continue
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Las luminarias by Eleanor Catton ES
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
«Una novela magnífica: imponente en cuanto a su complejidad estructural, adictiva por su historia y mágica por su forma de recrear un mundo de codicia y oro.»
Un tempestuoso día de enero una prostituta es arrestada.
Ese hecho podría pasar desapercibido en mitad de la fiebre del oro que recorre la costa de Nueva Zelanda en 1866 si no fuera por los otros tres eventos destacados que se producen el mismo día: se descubre una enorme fortuna en la casa de un borracho indigente, un hombre rico desaparece y un capitán de navío de mala repu... continue
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Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka : The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter by Florence Frisbie EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka (2nd edition) by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie is the first book written by a Polynesian woman. It tells the amazing story of a young girl growing up on a remote island in the Cook Islands group. Written when Johnny was between the ages of 12 and 14, and published in 1948 when she was 15, Johnny likens her travels through South Pacific islands to those of Ulysses in the Odyssey. Through Johnny's fresh and unspoiled eyes, we read of a Garden-of-Eden existence on a remote atoll, where the land and the sea provide all that is necessary for life. The sea brings danger as we... continue
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Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding ... continue
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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys. In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal -- applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates. 'I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,' she says. 'Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.' She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity o... continue