Ockham NZ Books Awards 2026
The best New Zealand books of 2025 – fiction, non-fiction and poetry – according to the judges of the 2026 Ockham NZ Book Awards. Longlist out now. Shortlist annouced 4 March and winners annouced as part of Auckland Writers’ Festival 13 May 2026.
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Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street
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Garrison World
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Hoods Landing
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The Collector: Thomas Cheeseman and the making of the Auckland Museum
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All Her Lives
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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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Whenua
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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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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
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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
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Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
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Mark Adams: A Survey
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Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist
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Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Maori
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