The 50 Best New Zealand Books

Given by New Zealand Listener

47 Works 10,982 Books 278 Reviews ½ 4.0
From the New Zealand Listener, 2004.
Year Awarded:
2004
WorkOrder Label
Owls Do Cry (1957) by Janet Frame
1
To The Is-Land (1982) by Janet Frame
2
The Garden Party (1922) by Katherine Mansfield
3
Bliss and Other Stories (1921) by Katherine Mansfield
4
The Lagoon: A Collection of Short Stories (1951) by Janet Frame
5
Plumb (1978) by Maurice Gee
6
An Angel at my Table (1984) by Janet Frame
7
In a German Pension (1911) by Katherine Mansfield
8
Tutira : the story of a New Zealand sheep station (1921) by Herbert Guthrie-Smith
9
The Bone People (1984) by Keri Hulme
10
That summer, and other stories (1946) by Frank Sargeson
11
Man Alone (1939) by John Mulgan
12
The Scarecrow (1976) by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
13
The native trees of New Zealand (1980) by John T. Salmon
14
Meg (1814) by Maurice Gee
15
No Ordinary Sun (1977) by Hone Tuwhare
16
A History of New Zealand (1959) by Keith Sinclair
18
Once Were Warriors (1990) by Alan Duff
20
Sing to Me Dreamer (1994) by Shonagh Koea
21
Jerusalem Sonnets (1975) by James K. Baxter
22
Tomorrow we save the orphans: Fiction (1992) by Owen Marshall
23
Pounamu Pounamu (1972) by Witi Ihimaera
24
New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (1986) by James Belich
25
Timeless land (1995) by Grahame Sydney
26
The Book of Fame (2000) by Lloyd Jones
27
Potiki (1986) by Patricia Grace
28
Believers to the Bright Coast (1998) by Vincent O'Sullivan
29
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1960) by Allen Curnow
30
The Life of Captain James Cook (1974) by J. C. Beaglehole
31
Te Puea: A Life (1977) by Michael King
32
Season of the Jew (1605) by Maurice Shadbolt
33
The dictionary of New Zealand English : a dictionary of New Zealandisms on historical principles (1997) by H. W. Orsman
34
Going West (1992) by Maurice Gee
35
The Haunting (1982) by Margaret Mahy
36
Came a Hot Friday (1964) by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
37
All Visitors Ashore (1984) by C. K. Stead
38
Once is enough; a memoir (1973) by Frank Sargeson
39
Pig Island Letters (1966) by James K. Baxter
40
Sings Harry, & Other Poems by Denis Glover
41
The story of a New Zealand river (1973) by Jane Mander
42
Trees Effigies Moving Objects (1972) by Allen Curnow
43
Coal flat (1963) by Bill Pearson
44
The Penguin History of New Zealand (2003) by Michael King
45
Tawa (1998) by Elizabeth Knox
47
Passport to Hell (New Zealand fiction series) (1987) by hyderobyn
48
Report on experience (1947) by John Mulgan
49
The Teheran Contract (1981) by Gayle Rivers
50

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