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Kimihia te pukapuka tino pai hei pānuitanga māu ā whai ake. Tirohia ngā rārangi pānui rauhī a Kete.
Critics and reviewers reflect on the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Non-fiction and Illustrated Non-fiction long lists. We've pulled together reviews and commentary in this handy list.
Critics and reviewers reflect on the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Fiction and Poetry long lists. We've pulled together reviews and commentary in this handy list.
Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (29 December 2024 to 25 January 2025).
Looking for recommendations for a book to take away to the beach? Four Kete reviewers share their TBR (to be read) lists and the titles they're most eager to jump into this summer.
Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (1 December to 28 December 2024).
Melinda Syzmanik reviews five popular picture books that would make excellent gifts.
Who better to ask for their favourite books from Aotearoa now that 2024 has entered its final chapter? Kete reviewers give their thoughts.
All the lifestyle books you need for Christmas, New Year and beyond to make it a hot books summer!
Boredom begone! Here's an A+ list of reading recommendations for kids of all ages for the long summer holiday.
Hot books summer! Take a look at this selection of biography and memoir straight from the pages of the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide.
Hot books summer reading continues! This time with an epic collection of general non-fiction from the pages of the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide.
Dive into this list of new and noteworthy local fiction direct from the pages of the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide.
The annual Storylines Notable Books list, representing the very best books for children and young adult published in the last twelve months, has been released. Dive into the reading list of this year's Notable Books!
We’ve studied the programme and compared notes with Kete’s reviewers to create a reading list for some of this weekend's Verb events.
Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (6 October to 2 November 2024).
New memoir and personal stories from some of Aotearoa's best known personalities, trailblazers, icons, sporting legends, writers and more.
Browse ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (8 September to 5 October 2024).
Browse the list 2024 PANZ Book Design award winners.
Audiobooks are great for road trips! Listening to a story is an excellent way to break up your journey one chapter at a time, ideal for drivers, and passengers who get motion sickness reading in a moving vehicle. Audiobooks are one of the fastest-growing book formats internationally, and there's a growing appetite for local audio stories in Aotearoa too.
Rārangi pānui: Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024.
Dive into this exciting list of the ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (3 to 30 November 2024).
Books about errant road cones, moving true-life stories and rugby-playing dogs star in the latest New Zealand children's picture books.
’When it was suggested I write some reviews of New Zealand picture books coming out over May/June I wasn’t expecting to receive over twenty books in the post, writes Melinda Szymanik.
Browse ten bestselling books Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (11 August to 7 September 2024).
Find memoir from some of Aotearoa's best known personalities, trailblazers and icons; personal essays, biography, travel stories and more.
Need an epic children's book recommendation? Start with this reading list of the 2024 award-winning books named at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
The twelve 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlisted books make a criminally good line-up.
Linda Jane Keegan shares her favourite junior fiction, middle grade fiction books by New Zealand authors from the past 10 years.
Romance author and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winner Marie Cardno shares books from her favourite New Zealand romance writers.
Simie Simpson crafts a reading list of recent books by Aotearoa’s LGBTQIA writers to mark Auckland Pride and her final year as Chair of samesame but different the LGBTQIA+ literary festival.
Ten (or eleven) poetry books, in no particular order, from the last ten years. Collections that ought to be read, that ought to rock your world, and which say something important.
Browse ten bestselling books Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (14 July to 10 August 2024).
Take a look at the very latest fiction by authors from Aotearoa. Dive into everything from contemporary fiction to thrilling crime, fantasy to historical fiction, to poetry.
When thinking of classic fiction from Aotearoa, works by Janet Frame and Keri Hulme, published last century might come to mind. But what about New Zealand fiction published in the last 20 or 25 years? Book lover Tilly Lloyd trawls her bookshelf to explore the best NZ fiction published since 2000.
If crime novels and thrillers are your favourite flavour of fiction, why not add some of these whodunnits by New Zealand authors to your reading list? Greg Fleming shares some of his most-loved crime novels from Aotearoa — great for adding to your bookshelf or loading to your tablet, e-reader or phone.
Poet Laureate Chris Tse has curated a reading list of books by East Asian and South East Asian authors from Aotearoa, for Lunar New Year.
Kiran Dass has a shelf of excellent books for the long (or any) weekend! Read on for book-inspiratation.
Finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults discuss the local children’s books that inspire them.
Take a look at the July list. Browse ten excellent books for tamariki and rangatahi (16 June to 13 July 2024).
Take a look at this selection of some of the best new books by authors from Aotearoa for tamariki and rangatahi this winter.
History, nature and the environment, sports, economics, entomology, and more!
Take a look at the brilliant words and pictures in this selection of new picture books by authors and illustrators from Aotearoa.
Eight fiction titles by Māori writers from the 2024 Ngā Pukapuka Māori | Māori Books catalogue.
Maatakiwi Wakefield (Kāi Tahu whānui, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto) and Ngapiu Tainui Maclure (Kāi Tahu whānui, Te Rarawa), Māori Library Services at Christchurch City Libraries shine a light on the kaupapa behind the Matariki selection in this year’s Winter Reading catalogue.
The June list has landed! Here are ten incredible (and bestselling) books for tamariki and rangatahi. Take a look (19 May to 15 June 2024).
Arbor Day is a day of observance where we’re encouraged to plant trees. Here’s three picture books about trees to share with young people.
In 2023 a cohort of excellent, world-class authors from Aotearoa penned novels for young adults. Here is Kete’s pick of the year based on our reviewers’ insights.
Leafy green inspiration must have been floating, spore-like in the air, in 2023. From art books to more whimsical first-person narrative natural history to the illustrative work of Donovan Bixley, it was definitely the year of the intriguing plant book!
Five picture books to make young ones laugh: Nanas With No Manners, Dreams of a Moa, There Was a Farmer Who Swallowed A Fly, Tulip and Sprout, You Don't Know How Lucky You Are/ Me i Mōhio Koe ki tō Waimarietanga!
Non-fiction pictures books to let the imaginations of young readers take flight.