2025 NZ Book Awards Shortlist

See the shortlisted books that we have in our collection.

Fiction

At the Grand Glacier Hotel
by Laurence Fearnley
Delirious
by Damien Wilkins
Pretty Ugly
by Kirsty Gunn
The Mires
by Tina Makereti

Poetry

Hopurangi - Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka
by Robert Sullivan
In the Half Light of a Dying Day
by C.K. Stead

Illustrated Non-fiction

Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer
by Athol McCredie
Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa
by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art
by Deidre Brown , Ngarino Ellis and onathan Mane-Wheoki

General Non-fiction

Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery
by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku
The Chthonic Cycle
by Una Cruickshank
The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation
by Richard Shaw