New Plymouth Book Lists

Scroll down for a variety of book lists relating to events, themes, books awards and genres...

Library Picks

	New Fiction Titles in May	New Large Print Titles in May	New Non Ficton Titles in May

Sustainability	Lucky Day Titles	ANZAC Reading List

Bibliotherapy List "Turn the Page"	Parenting	Banned Books	Ukraine Book List

Māori Pukapuka

Te Reo Māori
(300 most recent
items fully in Te Reo
or partially in Te Reo)

Māori Pukapuka
(300 most recent
adult titles on
the borrowing shelf)

Waitangi Reading List

Puanga Reading List

Past Finalists

Book Clubs


Current Puke Ariki Book Group Titles	Book Group in a Bag Titles (10 copies in each bag)	Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Reading Room Suggested Title List	Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Suggested Title List	Start your own Bookgroup! Multi-access titles (ebooks and eaudiobooks)

New Zealand


Ockham NZ Book Awards Shortlists 2024 for Fiction, NonFiction, Illustrated NonFiction and Poetry	NZ Children & Young Adult Awards Shortlist 2023	New Zealand Fiction	New Zealand Non-Fiction	NZSA Heritage Awards 2022

Author Awards


Nobel Prize for Literature Bob Dylan 2016 Kazuo Ishiguro 2017 Olga Tokarczuk 2018 Peter Handke 2019 Louise Glück 2020 Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021 Annie Ernaux 2022 Jon Fosse 2023	The British Book Awards Richard Osman 2021 Marian Keyes 2022 Bonnie Garmus 2023	The Pleasure of Reading Prize (UK) Ali Smith 2021 Edna O'Brien 2022 Sebastian Barry 2023	2021 Prime Minister's Awards Fiction : David Hill Poetry : Anne Kennedy Non-Fiction: Dame Claudia Josepha Orange 2022 Prime Minister's Awards Fiction : Stephanie Johnson Poetry : James Norcliffe Non-fiction : Vincent O'Malley 2023 Prime Minister's Awards Fiction : Lee Murray Poetry : Tusiata Avia Non-fiction : Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Non Fiction


2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist	British Academy Prize for global cultural understanding Shortlist 2022	Wainwright Prizes for Nature Writing & Writing for Conservation 2022 (UK)	Miles Franklin Literary Award (Aus) Winner 2022

Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist 2022	Royal Society Science Book Prize UK Shortlist 2023	Cundhill History Prize Finalists 2023	Financial Times Business Book of the Year Shortlist 2022

Fiction

			"fiction at its most novel"
Costa Awards (UK) Shortlists & Winners 2021	Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists and Winner 2022 (US)	Goldsmiths Prize (UK) Shortlist 2022

International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist and Winner 2022	Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Shortlist 2022	Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Awards Shortlist 2022


Booker Prize Shortlist and Winner 2022	Booker International Prize Longlist 2022 Quality fiction in translation	Man Booker Prize 2018 The Golden 50 Winners from the last 50 years

Crime


Ngaio Marsh Awards (NZ) Shortlist for Best Novel and Best First Novel 2022	Edgar Awards (U.S.) 2022	Dagger Awards Winners 2022 (UK)	Harrogate Awards Winners 2022

Romance


Romantic Novel of the Year Awards Longlists 2020 (UK)	Romantic Book of the Year Category Finalists 2020 (AUS)	Latest Romantic Fiction	Latest in the Mills & Boon Collections

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror


Hugo Awards 2022	Ignyte Awards Shortlist and Winners 2021	Nebula Awards 2023 (USA)	Bram Stoker Horror Awards Winners 2022 (USA)

Arthur C. Clark Award Shortlist 2021	Sir Julius Vogel Awards (N.Z.) Winners 2021