Read the World: New Zealand

Books by authors from New Zealand or set in/about New Zealand.

Updated February 4, 2024
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I passed this way
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia.
Paper Book
Potiki
Grace, Patricia, 1937-
Paper Book
This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols...
The whale rider
Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- author.
Paper Book
Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But...
A force of nature the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020
Paper Book
Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier--a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life"...

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