NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlist

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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlist

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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlist

A reading list of the titles shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2025! Explore here to see the books that were chosen as the best in their category for 2025.

There are five categories in the Awards. Eight books were shortlisted in the Adult Fiction category, seven books in the Lifestyle Category, four for Young Adult, and six books each for the Junior Fiction and Children’s Picture Book Categories. Explore them all below.

Cover of Better Left Dead

Better Left Dead

by

$38.99 NZD

Cover of The Call

Cover of The Space Between

Cover of The War Photographers

Cover of Weeping Angels

Cover of The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna

Cover of Woman, Missing

Cover of 101 Ways to Find Calm: How to use your body to soothe your mind

101 Ways to Find Calm: How to use your body to soothe your mind

How to use your body to soothe your mind

by

Cover of Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist

Cover of Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā

Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā

by

$45.00 NZD

Cover of Play Wild: Nature Craft Activities for Tamariki

Play Wild: Nature Craft Activities for Tamariki

Nature Craft Activities for Tamariki

Cover of Wild Wellington Ngā Taonga Taiao: A guide to the wildlife and wild places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika

Cover of Kai Feast

Cover of The Laden Table

Cover of Gracehopper

Cover of Mess of Our Lives

Mess of Our Lives

by

$29.00 NZD

Cover of Migration

Cover of The Night She Fell

Cover of Brave Kāhu and the Pōrangi Magpie

Cover of Children of the Rush 3

Children of the Rush 3

by

$22.00 NZD

Cover of The Grimmelings

Cover of Nine Girls

Cover of The Raven's Eye Runaways

The Raven's Eye Runaways

by

$24.99 NZD

Cover of Rimu: The Tree of Time an Amorangi and Millie Adventure

Cover of The Dream Factory

Cover of Elephant Park

Cover of Hineraukatauri Me Te Ara Puoro

Hineraukatauri Me Te Ara Puoro

by

$22.00 NZD

Cover of The Squeakling: The tale of Spike, Max and the tiny intruder

Cover of The Very Best Words

Cover of Little Axel's Axolotl

Little Axel's Axolotl

by

$27.99 NZD

2

The Call

by

3

The Space Between

by

$37.00 NZD

4

The War Photographers

by

$32.99 NZD

5

Weeping Angels

by

$39.95 NZD

6

The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna

by

$36.99 NZD

Woman, Missing

by

$36.99 NZD

$29.99 NZD

9

Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist

Early New Zealand Modernist

by

$70.00 NZD

by

$29.99 NZD

12

Wild Wellington Ngā Taonga Taiao: A guide to the wildlife and wild places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika

A guide to the wildlife and wild places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika

by

$45.00 NZD

13

Kai Feast

by

$59.99 NZD

The Laden Table

by

$59.99 NZD

15

Gracehopper

by

$29.00 NZD

17

Migration

by

$30.00 NZD

18

The Night She Fell

by

$37.00 NZD

19

Brave Kāhu and the Pōrangi Magpie

by

$19.99 NZD

21

The Grimmelings

by

$24.99 NZD

22

Nine Girls

by

$22.00 NZD

24

Rimu: The Tree of Time an Amorangi and Millie Adventure

The Tree of Time an Amorangi and Millie Adventure

by

$26.00 NZD

25

The Dream Factory

by

$22.00 NZD

26

Elephant Park

by

$21.99 NZD

28

The Squeakling: The tale of Spike, Max and the tiny intruder

by

$21.99 NZD

29

The Very Best Words

by

$21.99 NZD