| Titles | Order |
| Go round power please by James Brown | First Book of Poetry, 1996 |
| My sunshine by Bill Manhire | Poetry, 1996 |
| Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins | First Book for Fiction, 1996 |
| Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki by Judith Binney | Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage, 1996 |
| Wild Dunedin : enjoying the natural history of New Zealand's wildlife capital by Neville Peat | Natural Heritage, 1996 |
| Zoology by Sheridan Keith | Fiction, 1996 |
| An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt | Poetry, 1997 |
| Before the divorce we go to disneyland by Diane Brown | First Book of Poetry, 1997 |
| Finding Home by Dominic Sheehan | First Book of Fiction, 1997 |
| Mataora : the living face : contemporary Maori art by Sandy Adsett | Illustrative Arts, 1997 |
| The Story of Suzanne Aubert by Jessie Munro | Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage and First Book of Non-Fiction, 1997 |
| What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Alan Duff | Fiction, 1997 |
| All Roads Lead to the Sea by Kapka Kassabova | First Book of Poetry, 1998 |
| The Dictionary of New Zealand English : a dictionary of New Zealandisms on historical principles by H. W. Orsman | History & Biography Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 1998 |
| Goldie by Roger Blackley | Illustrative Arts, 1998 |
| In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey | First Book of Fiction, 1998 |
| Live Bodies by Maurice Gee | Deutz Medal for Fiction, 1998 |
| New Zealand Historical Atlas by malcolmmckinnon | Readers' Choice Award, 1998 |
| New Zealand Historical Atlas | Readers' Choice Award, 1998 |
| Shape-shifter by Hone Tuwhare | Poetry, 1998 |
| 100 New Zealand craft artists by Helen Schamroth | Illustrative Arts and First Book of Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| Alpha Male by William Brandt | First Book of Fiction, 1999 |
| The Loving Stitch: A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand by Heather Nicholson | Lifestyle Winner and Montana Medal for Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| The natural world of New Zealand by Gerard Hutching | Environment & Heritage, 1999 |
| Seeing You Asked by Vincent O'Sullivan | Poetry, 1999 |
| Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars by Kate Camp | First Book of Poetry, 1999 |
| The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox | Deutz Medal for Fiction and Readers' Choice Award and Booksellers' Choice Award, 1999 |
| The Art of Grahame Sydney by Grahame Sydney | Illustrative Arts Winner and Readers' Choice Award and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2000 |
| The art of walking upright by Glenn Colquhoun | First Book for Poetry, 2000 |
| Classic Tramping in New Zealand by Shaun Barnett | Environment, 2000 |
| The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants by Valda Paddison | Lifestyle, 2000 |
| The gardener's encyclopaedia of New Zealand native plants by Yvonne Cave | Lifestyle, 2000 |
| Harlequin Rex by Owen Marshall | Deutz Medal for Fiction, 2000 |
| The Lark Quartet by Elizabeth Smither | Poetry, 2000 |
| Stray thoughts and nose bleeds by Duncan Sarkies | First Book for Fiction, 2000 |
| Animals Indoors by Stephanie de Montalk | First Book of Poetry, 2001 |
| The Bells of St Babel's: Poems 1997-2001 by Allen Curnow | Poetry, 2001 |
| The book of fame by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones | Deutz Medal for Fiction, 2001 |
| Dancing Leaves: the Story of New Zealand's Cabbage Tree, Ti Kouka by Philip Simpson | Environment, 2001 |
| Fresh by Julie Biuso | Lifestyle, 2001 |
| Pukaki : a comet returns by Paul Tapsell | First Book of Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Ralph Hotere: Black Light by Ralph Hotere | Illustrative Arts, 2001 |
| Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting by Lynnsay Rongokea | Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, 2002 |
| A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood | History Winner and Readers' Choice Award and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2002 |
| Fool's paradise by Steve Braunias | First Book of Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| Husk by Chris Price | First Book of Poetry, 2002 |
| Long Loop Home: A Memoir by Peter Wells | Biography, 2002 |
| Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors by Hirini Moko Mead | Reference & Anthology, 2002 |
| Piggy-back moon by Hone Tuwhare | Poetry, 2002 |
| Stonedogs by Craig Marriner | Deutz Medal for Fiction and First Book of Fiction Winner, 2002 |
| Feeding the Dogs by Kay McKenzie Cooke | First Book of Poetry, 2003 |
| No idle rich : the wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914 by Jim McAloon | History, 2003 |
| Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun | Poetry Winner and Readers’ Choice Award, 2003 |
| Queen of Beauty by Paula Morris | First Book of Fiction, 2003 |
| The Shag Incident by Stephanie Johnson | Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2003 |
| A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields by Philip Temple | Biography, 2003 |
| Spirit in a strange land : a selection of New Zealand spiritual verse by Paul Morris | Reference & Anthology, 2003 |
| Spirit in a strange land: A selection of New Zealand spiritual verse | Reference & Anthology, 2003 |
| Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail by Geoff Chapple | Environment, 2003 |
| Wine atlas of New Zealand by Michael Cooper | Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2003 |
| The Year of the Horse by Sam Mahon | First Book of Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| The Adulterer's Bible by Cliff Fell | First Book of Poetry, 2004 |
| Bloom by Kelly Ana Morey | First Book of Fiction, 2004 |
| Central by Arno Gasteiger | Illustrative, 2004 |
| Deep New Zealand: Blue Water, Black Abyss by Peter Batson | Environment, 2004 |
| Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason by Rachel Barrowman | Biography, 2004 |
| The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King | Reader's Choice Award, 2004 |
| Sing-song by Anne Kennedy | Poetry, 2004 |
| Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose | Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2004 |
| The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas by Anne Salmond | History Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2004 |
| Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English | Reference & Anthology, 2004 |
| At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins | History Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2005 |
| Chronicle of the unsung by Martin Edmond | Biography, 2005 |
| Clung by Sonja Yelich | First Book of Poetry, 2005 |
| Ghost Dance by Douglas Wright | First Book of Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Made in Morocco by Julie Le Clerc | Reader's Choice Award, 2005 |
| My Real Life (and Other Stories) by Julian Novitz | First Book of Fiction, 2005 |
| The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary by New Zealand Dictionary Centre | Reference & Anthology, 2005 |
| The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary by Tony Deverson | Reference & Anthology, 2005 |
| The New Zealand Oxford dictionary by graemedkennedy | Reference & Anthology, 2005 |
| Nice morning for it, Adam by Vincent O'Sullivan | Poetry, 2005 |
| Tu by Patricia Grace | Fiction Winner and Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, 2005 |
| Blindsight by Maurice Gee | Fiction Winner and Reader's Choice Award and Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry, 2006 |
| The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman | Reader's Choice Award, 2006 |
| Dream fish floating by Karlo Mila | First Book of Poetry, 2006 |
| Great sporting moments : the best of Sport magazine, 1988-2004 by Damien Wilkins | Reference & Anthology, 2006 |
| How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton | Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, 2006 |
| Lifted by Bill Manhire | Poetry, 2006 |
| Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand's Iron-Hearted Trees by Philip Simpson | Environment Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2006 |
| Thrift to Fantasy by Rosemary McLeod | History, 2006 |
| Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand by Eagle Audrey | Illustrative Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2007 |
| Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand by George W. Gibbs | Environment, 2007 |
| The goose bath : poems by Janet Frame | Poetry, 2007 |
| Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones | Fiction Winner and Reader's Choice Awand and Montana Medal For Fiction or Poetry, 2007 |
| The Sound of Butterflies: A Novel by Rachael King | First Book of Fiction, 2007 |
| Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists by Ann Packer | Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, 2007 |
| Vaka moana : voyages of the ancestors : the discovery and settlement of the Pacific by Kerry Howe | History, 2007 |
| Cold snack by Janet Charman | Poetry, 2008 |
| The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman Taylor by Judy Siers | Biography, 2008 |
| Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw | Fiction, 2008 |
| Wetlands of New Zealand by Janet Hunt | Environment, 2008 |
| Buying the land, selling the land : governments and Māori land in the North Island 1865-1921 by Richard Boast | History, 2009 |
| Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead | Reference & Anthology, 2009 |
| Continent on the Move, A: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century by Ian Graham | Environment, 2009 |
| Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston | Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, 2009 |
| Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell | Best First Book, 2009 |
| Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins | Fiction, 2009 |
| Rita Angus : an artist's life by Jill Trevelyan | Biography, 2009 |
| The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt | Poetry, 2009 |
