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Award Winners: See what all the fuss is about with a book that has won an award!
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Booker Prize - English or translated into English and published in UK/Ireland
Pulitzer Prize - US authors
Hugo Award - fantasy and sci-fi
Ngaio Marsh Award - crime, mystery or triller by New Zealand citizen
Biography / Memoir: Walk a day in someone else's shoes
A High Country Life by Pip Cameron
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
Childless : a story of freedom and longing
Still just a geek : an annotated memoir by Wil Wheaton
Book to Film: Read a book that has been made into a movie or TV Show, which was better the book or the film/TV show
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Food: Read a book about food
Hundred Foot Journey by Richard Morais
The Chicken Sisters by K.J. Dell'Antonia
Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson
The Little French Bistro by Nina George
Garlic and Sapphires: The secret life of a restaurant critic in disguise by Ruth Reichl
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Audiobook)
In translation: Read a book that has been translated from one language to your primary language
A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Long Title: Read a book with a title that's more than 6 words
My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry by Frederik Backman
The curious incident of the dog in night-time by Mark Haddon
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet by Jamie Ford
7 Habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Walton, Leslye
Māori Kaituhi: Read a book by a Māori author
Aljce in Therapy Land by Alice Tawhai
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore
Sleeps Standing Moetū by Witi Ihimaera
Daylight Second by Kelly Ana Morey
Staff Pick: Just some of the books our staff recommend or ask at the desk next time you are in
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O-Farrell
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Photos of you by Tammi Robinson
Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston
Travel with Reading: Read a book set in a place you've never been
The Seven Sisters Series by Lucinda Riley
Countdown to Mecca by Michael Savage
The life to come by De Kretser, Michelle
When twilight breaks by Sara Sundin
YA literature: Read a young adult novel
Black Ballerina’s By Misty Copeland
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Brown
The inheritance games by Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
They both die at the end by Silvera, Adam