Best Books

Nov132019

Best books for November 2019

Fiction

The Weekend, by Charlotte Wood
Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout
Silver, by Chris Hammer
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
Never Have I ever, by Joshilyn Jackson
Pūrākau, Māori Myths Retold, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka

Non-Fiction

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
Underland, by Robert MacFarlane
Let Me Be Frank, by Sarah Laing
Travel Light, Move fast, by Alexandra Fuller
Zealandia, the valley that changed a nation, by Jim Lynch
Book Of Knowing, by Gwendoline Smith

Childrens

Tohorā, by Ned Barraud
The Gobbledegook Book, by Joy Cowley
Two For Me, One For You, by Jörg Mühle
Wildlife of Aotearoa, by Gavin Bishop
Cleo and Rob, by Helen Brown
Oliver goes to Stephens Island Lighthouse, by Grant Sheehan.

Jul092019

Marsden Books Best Books of July 2019

Adult titles

: Machines Like Us

Books for Children

Feb202019

Marsden Books Best Books of February 2019

Adult Fiction

: The Wall
John Lanchester

: Middle England
Jonathan Coe

: Pearly Gates: a novel
Owen Marshall

: Call me Evie
J.P. Pomare

: Turbulence
David Szalay

Adult Non Fiction

: Becoming
Michelle Obama

: Written in History
Simon Sebag Montefiore

: Karori Confidential
Leah McFall

: The End of The End of The Earth
Jonathan Franzen

: The Book of Knowing
Gwendoline Smith

Children

: Invisible String
Patrice Karst

: The Book of No Worries
Lizzie Cox & Tanja Stevanovic

: The Legend of Capt Black Custard
Stu Duval

: Animals of Aotearoa
Gillian Chandler and Ned Barraud

: Claris
Megan Fless

Nov052018

Marsden Books Best Books of 2018

Fiction

: Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

: Travelling in a Strange Land
David Park

: Meet me at the Museum
Anne Youngsen

: The Lost Man
Jane Harper

: Strange Meeting
Susan Hill

: Kate Atkinson
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: Normal People
Sally Rooney

: Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver

Non-Fiction

: Ma’am Darling
Craig Brown

: With the End in Mind
Kathryn Mannix

: Memory pieces
Maurice Gee

: Gloucester Crescent
William Miller

: Munro
Sharon Murdoch

: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa

: Simple
Yotam Ottolenghi

Children’s Picture Books

: Animals of Aotearoa
Gillian Candler & Ned Barraud

: New Zealand’s Backyard Beasts
Ned Barraud

: The Magic Bookshop
Natalie Jane Prior

: Hero of the Sea: Sir Peter Blake’s Mighty Ocean Quests
David Hill

: Cook’s Cook
Gavin Bishop

: Sports Are Fantastic Fun!
Ole Könnecke

: Why is the Lake So Blue?
Simon Pollard

: The Confidence Code For Girls
Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

Jul252018

Marsden Books Best Reads July 2018

: Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

: This Mortal Boy
Fiona Kidman

: House of Gold
Natasha Solomons

: The Paper Lovers
Gerar Woodward

: Ma’am Darling
Craig Brown

: Fire on All Sides
James Rhodes

: This is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay

: The Russian Revolution
Sean McMeekin

: Search and Find Alphabet of Alphabets
Allan Sanders

: Go Girl
Barbara Else

: You’re Called What?
Kes Gray

: Izzy Gizmo
Pip Jones

: The Mapmakers Race
Eirlys Hunter

: Wed Wabbit
Lisa Evans

Feb202018

Best books for Children February 2018

: The New Zealand Wars
Philippa Werry

: I Am Jellyfish
Ruth Paul

: Mum at School
Eric Veille

: This Zoo is Not For You
Eric Ross

: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill

: Rain Fall
Ella West

: The Secret Keepers
Trenton Lee Stewart

Feb202018

Marsden Books Best Reads February 2018

: After Alexander
Jan Pryor

: Plot 29
Alan Jenkins

: The Only Story
Julian Barnes

: A Thousand Paper Birds
Tor Udall

: With the End in Mind
Kathryn Mannix

: The Cage
Lloyd Jones

: Travelling Light
Alastair Sawday

: The Man Who Would Not See
Rajorshi Chakraborti

: Maori at Home
Scotty and Stacey Morrison

Nov262017

Marsden Books Best Reads 2017

FICTION

: Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx

: The Hearts Invisible Furies
John Boyne

: Anything is Possible
Elizabeth Strout

: The Party
Elizabeth Day

: The Red Notebook
Antoine Laurain

: The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst

: Midwinter Break
Bernard MacLaverty

NON FICTION

: Driving to Treblinka
Diana Wichtel

: Drawn Out
Tom Scott

: Lucky Lupin
Charlie Mortimer

: Waiting for the Albino Dunnock
Rosamond Richardson

: The Choice
Dr Edith Eva Eger

: Life in the Garden Penelope Lively

: Jacob’s Room is Full of Books
Susan Hill

CHILDREN

: Summer Days

: Aotearoa The New Zealand Story
Gavin Bishop

: Scarface Claw, Hold Tight
Lynley Dodd

: Feel a Little
Jenny Palmer and Evie Kemp

: The Dragon Defenders
James Russell

: The Traitor and the Thief
Gareth Ward

: The Ugly Five
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

: Here We Are
Oliver Jeffers

Feb172017

The Book of Bees

Piotr Sacha tracks the history of bees from the age of dinosaurs to their current plight, examining along the way the role bees have played in history and in the rest of the natural world.