Awards
Choose something to read from a prestigious list of titles shortlisted for book awards. From NZ’s national book award, the Ockhams, to the best children’s books, dive into the different Book Awards categories below to discover books that have made the shortlist for these top awards.
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Booker Prize Winners (9)
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NZ Book Awards Children Young Adults 2022 (10)
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NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2023 (7)
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NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024 (10)
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NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2025 (13)
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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 (6)
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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 (6)
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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 (14)
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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 (13)
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Ockham NZ Books Awards 2026 (27)
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Womens Prize for Fiction (3)
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Te Hipo Huna
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From the Centre: A Writers Life
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The Lacuna
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Grimmelings, The
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Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street
$90.00 Add to cart -
Garrison World
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Hoods Landing
$38.00 Add to cart -
The Collector: Thomas Cheeseman and the making of the Auckland Museum
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All Her Lives
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He Puawai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers
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Drinking Game
$37.99 Add to cart -
Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life
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How To Paint A Nude
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The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era
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The Last Living Cannibal
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Everything But the Medicine: A doctor’s tale
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Hardship and Hope: Stories of Resistance in the Fight Against Poverty in Aotearoa
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Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer
$70.00 Add to cart -
The Paradise Generation (Winner: Best Young Adult Fiction 2025 NZCYA Book Awards)
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Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century
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Empathy
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Different Kind of Power
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Before the Winter Ends
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Book of Guilt
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This Compulsion In Us
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1985
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Safekeep, The
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An Uncommon Land: From an ancestral past of enclosure towards a regenerative future
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The Covid Response: A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next
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Wonderland
$38.00 Add to cart -
Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa
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Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Vol 1 1834-1864: Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War
$89.99 Add to cart -
Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
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Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist
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You Can’t Pat a Fish
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The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Winner: Book of the Year 2025 NZCYA Book Awards)
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