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Favourite NZ Books
Time Out Bookstore celebrated the inaugural NZ Book Month in 2006 with a vote to discover the Top 20 favourite NZ books of all time. Voting ran hot; and below is the final selection as voted by you!
(All titles available to buy from Time Out!)
1. The Bone People, Keri Hulme (Picador)
2. The Vintner’s Luck, Elizabeth Knox (VUP)
3. The Penguin History of New Zealand, Michael King
4. Under the Mountain, Maurice Gee (Puffin)
5. Plumb, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
6. Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
7. The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera (Reed)
8. Edmonds Cookery Book, Author (Various),
(Goodman Fielder NZ Ltd)
9. Season of the Jew, Maurice Shadbolt (David Ling)
10. Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame (Random House)
11. In My Father’s Den, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
12. Bulibasha, Witi Ihimaera (Penguin)
13. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy (Harper Collins)
14. An Angel At My Table, Janet Frame (Random House)
15. Tu, Patricia Grace (Penguin)
16. The Book of Fame, Lloyd Jones (Penguin)
17. Man Alone, John Mulgan (Penguin)
18. Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff (Random House)
19. The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (Random House)
20. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy, Lynley Dodd (Penguin)
An honourable mention should go to the book in the twenty-first slot: the fabulous Tarzan Presley by the much-missed Nigel Cox.
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