10+ New Zealand romance books to heat up your winter
Romance author and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winner Marie Cardno shares her favourite New Zealand romance writers whose books are bound to warm the cockles this winter.
28 June 2024
Reading ListsNgā Rārangi Pānui
Find your next great read. Browse Kete's curated reading lists.
Kimihia te pukapuka tino pai hei pānuitanga māu ā whai ake. Tirohia ngā rārangi pānui rauhī a Kete.
The Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List — June 2024
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).
25 June 2024
10 thrilling crime novels by New Zealand authors to add to your e-reader or bookshelf
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.
3 June 2024
5 NZ audiobooks for your next road trip
Summer road trips are made for audiobooks. Listening to stories is a way to break up your journey one chapter at a time, ideal for drivers with eyes focused on the road and passengers who get motion sickness while reading in a moving vehicle. Audiobooks are one of the fastest-growing book formats internationally, booming in popularity following the pandemic, and there's a growing appetite for local audio stories in Aotearoa too.
6 February 2024
3 picture books for tree-loving young readers
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.
4 June 2021
Eight recent fiction and short story books by Māori authors
Eight fiction titles by Māori writers from the 2024 Ngā Pukapuka Māori | Māori Books catalogue.
31 March 2024
Starry cluster of new pukapuka give a bigger picture on Matariki
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.
14 June 2024
Reading list: Enticing NZ picture books from May and June 2024
’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.
11 June 2024
Best of the year: Aotearoa’s YA class of 2023
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.
18 December 2023
Intriguing plant books published in 2023
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!
16 December 2023
Foraging for brilliant books for the long weekend
Kiran Dass has a shelf of excellent books for the long weekend, from an intriguing book to take on long walks to new memoir from Harry Ricketts and Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. Read on for book-inspiratation!
31 May 2024
Reviews: NZ pictures books to let young imaginations take flight
Books about errant road cones, moving true-life stories and rugby-playing dogs star in the latest New Zealand children's picture books.
31 October 2023
Review: Five picture books to make young ones laugh
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!
1 June 2023
Non fiction picture books for the young and young at heart promise bountiful adventures
Non-fiction pictures books to let the imaginations of young readers take flight.
1 October 2023