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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlist

A reading list of the titles shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2025! Explore here to see the books that were chosen as the best in their category for 2025.

There are five categories in the Awards. Eight books were shortlisted in the Adult Fiction category, seven books in the Lifestyle Category, four for Young Adult, and six books each for the Junior Fiction and Children’s Picture Book Categories.

Explore them all below.

Check out the reading list...

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Better Left Dead
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The Call
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The Space Between
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The War Photographers
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Weeping Angels
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The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna
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Woman, Missing
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101 Ways to Find Calm: How to use your body to soothe your mind
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Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
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Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā
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Play Wild: Nature Craft Activities for Tamariki
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Wild Wellington Ngā Taonga Taiao: A guide to the wildlife and wild places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika
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Kai Feast
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The Laden Table
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Gracehopper
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Mess of Our Lives
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Migration
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The Night She Fell
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Brave Kāhu and the Pōrangi Magpie
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Children of the Rush 3
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The Grimmelings
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Nine Girls
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The Raven's Eye Runaways
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Rimu: The Tree of Time an Amorangi and Millie Adventure
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The Dream Factory
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Elephant Park
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Hineraukatauri Me Te Ara Puoro
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The Squeakling: The tale of Spike, Max and the tiny intruder
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The Very Best Words
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Little Axel's Axolotl

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