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The Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List — September-October 2025

Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (7 September to 4 October 2025)....

'Such a treat': Briony of Marsden's Books on bookshops and libraries

Briony of Marsden Books in Karori on finding the perfect book for a reader and the joys of Bookshop Day

Bookstores celebrate on Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day

Booksellers around the country will celebrate the joy of reading with a host of fanfare events on Aotearoa New Zealand Booksh...

Review: Strong Words 4, edited by Lynley Edmeades

Becs Tetley takes a long look at STRONG WORDS 4, an collection of twenty essays selected by editor Lynley Edmeades from the L...

New Books

Ngā Pukapuka Hou

Check out the latest books from our amazing NZ authors...

Giving Birth to My Father

by Tusiata Avia

Nourish

by Chelsea Winter

The Creative Worship Leader's Toolbox

by Philip C. Garside

Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

by Matthew Wright

The People I Know Now

by Jasmine Donaldson

Once Once A Forest Ranger

by Chris Nelson

Freya Finds The Giants

by Johanna Klein

Dish Fast Two

by Sarah Tuck

Understanding Freedom Camping

by Grayson I. Pierce

Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi

by Frankie McMillan

Curly Cat The Acrobat

by Jennifer Somervell

Understanding Hauora

by Roimata Smail

This week's Aotearoa NZ Bestsellers

Ngā Pukapuka Pai Rawa Atu i Aotearoa i tēnei wiki

View this week's bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children's books...

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Kete's Calendar of Events

Te Maramataka Taiopenga o Kete

An essential calendar of events for all things bookish in Aotearoa New Zealand...

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Reviews Ngā Arotakenga

Read our independent reviews of the latest books from Aotearoa.

Review: 100 Words that Make Us Kiwi

'These words and phrases don't tell you only about our language. They're insights into our culture, both high and low. The 'B...

Review: Lessons on Living, by Nigel Latta

Nigel Latta's final book was released on the day he sadly died of terminal cancer. Angela Walker reflects on the LESSONS ON L...

Review: Bird of the Year

'The book is designed to be nibbled in bite-sized sections or consumed all at once, with the text nicely broken up by an arra...

Review: Speaking My Language Te Kōrero i Tōku Reo

'It feels like a rare peek behind the curtain of what the mission of learning a new language can entail, particularly when th...

Review: Dead Ends, by Laura Borrowdale

'These are hard stories to ‘like’ but on the terms they have set, the parameters of the worlds Borrowdale has conjured, they ...

Tūmahi Māori: He ara whakamārama ki ngā tūmahi Māori nā Hēmi Kelly i arotake

'Hei whakakapi ake, he mārama te āhua o tā Hone whakatakoto i ngā kōrero. Kia pono, he uaua te wetereo, engari kāore ia e wha...

Interviews and ExtractsNgā Uiui me ngā Tīpakohanga

Author Q&As and extracts from up coming NZ books.

'Te reo Māori is how I speak to the world around me': Airana Ngarewa

Extract: Feijoa, by Kate Evans

'A rapidly shifting, unstable world': Jo Randerson

ListenWhakarongo Mai

Listen to author interviews, reviews, and book news. Plus, read reviews about audiobooks by authors from Aotearoa.

Rural life and recipes: Nadia Lim's favourites

Chef Nadia Lim, whose new book NADIA'S FARM KITCHEN is out now, shares her thoughts on rural life on Playing Favourites at R...

Gay in the 1960s: Autofiction by Jeffrey Buchanan

Jeffrey Buchanan talks to Emile Donovan about his new book, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING, which won the 2024 Michael Gifkins Award...

Listen: Jiaqiao Liu on robots and how they're everywhere

In their first poetry collection DEAR ALTER, Jiaqiao Liu explores 'the ambiguities, paradoxes and kinships between human and...

Children and Young AdultsNgā Pukapuka Tamariki

The latest picks for children's picture books, junior fiction and young adults.