Highly recommended Aotearoa books

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A selection of Aotearoa’s most critically acclaimed, award-winning and classic fiction and non-fiction books by many of our finest writers.
Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff
The Denniston Rose
Jenny Pattrick
Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
I Am Not Esther
Fleur Beale
Catch Me When You Fall
Eileen Merriman
Singing Home the Whale
Mandy Hager
The Book of Secrets
Fiona Kidman
This Mortal Boy
Fiona Kidman
The 10pm Question
Kate De Goldi
Rangatira
Paula Morris
Pounamu Pounamu
Witi Ihimaera
The Hut Builder
Laurence Fearnley
As the Earth Turns Silver
Alison Wong
Halfmen Of O
Maurice Gee
In My Father's Den
Maurice Gee
Potiki
Patricia Grace
Purākau
Ed. Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka
The Tally Stick
Carl Nixon
The Villa At the Edge of the Empire
Fiona Farrell
The Larnachs
Owen Marshall
The Conductor
Sarah Quigley
The Shag Incident
Stephanie Johnson
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
Tina Makereti
Wild Pork and Watercress
Barry Crump
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