Australia

• Obernewtyn (series) / Isobelle Carmody (1987 – 2015)
• Catching Teller Crow / Ambelin Kwaymullina (2018)
• The boy from the Mish / Gary Lonesborough (2021)
• We didn’t think it through / Gary Lonesborough (2023)
• Looking for Alibrandi / Melina Marchetta
• Tomorrow, when the war began (series) / John Marsden (1993 – 1999)
• The Upwelling / Lystra Rose (2022)
• The book thief / Markus Zusak (2006)
• Bridge of Clay / Markus Zusak (2018)
• Meet me at the intersection / Various (2018)

Cook Islands | Kūki ‘Āirani

• Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka / Johnny Frisbie (2016)
• Beats of the pa’u / Maria Samuela (2022)
• The collected poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (2016)

Fiji | Viti | फ़िजी

• The sailmaker’s daughter / Stephanie Johnson (1996)
• Enslaved in paradise / Pajendra Prasad (2018)
• A disappearance in Fiji / Nilima Rao (2023)

Kiribati

• Consuming Ocean Island: stories of people and phosphate / Katerina Martina Teaiwa (2015)
• Sweat and salt water / Teresia Teaiwa (2021)

Marshall Islands and Micronesia | Ṃajeḷ

• Indigenous literatures from Micronesia / Various (2019); includes stories from Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau
• Strangers in their own lands / Francis X Hezel (1995)

Nauru | Naoero

• Legends, traditions and tales of Nauru / Timothy Detudamo (2008)

Niue

• Tales of Niue nukututaha / Zora Feilo (2015)

Papua New Guinea | Papua Niugini

• When the Moon was big / Ulli Beier (1972)
• Mr. Pip / Lloyd Jones (2006)
• A true child of Papua New Guinea / Maggie Wilson (2019)

Samoa | Sāmoa

• The savage coloniser book / Tusiata Avia (2020)
• Where we once belonged / Sia Figiel (1999)
• Tama Sāmoa / Dahlia Malaeulu (2021)
• The adventures of Vela / Albert Wendt (2009)
• Telesā (series) / Lani Wendt Young (2011-)
• Afakasi woman / Lani Wendt Young (2019)
• Tōfā Sasa’a : contemporary short stories from Sāmoa / Various (2002)
• Only the word survives : the Samoa Observer Tusitala short stories / Various (2017)

Solomon Islands | Solomon Aelan

• Devil-devil / Graeme Kent (2011)
• Solomoni : times and tales from Solomon Islands / Roger Webber (2011)

Tahiti (French Polynesia)

• Island of shattered dreams / Chantal T. Spitz (2007)
• Breadfruit : a novel / Celestine Vaite (2006)

Tonga

• Kisses in the nederends / Hau’ofa, ‘Epeli (1987)
• Becoming Tongan / Helen Morton Lee (1995)
• Marbles and mangoes / Sione Tapani Mangisi (2020)
• Songs and poems of Queen Sālote / Sālote Tupou (2004)

Vanuatu

• Tanna times : islanders in the world / Lamont Lindstrom (2020)
• Sado / Mikaela Nyman (2020)

Pasifika Anthologies

• A kind of shelter : Whakaruru-taha / Aotearoa, Hawaiʻi, Sāmoa, including Indigenous writers from various other countries (2023)
• Black marks on the white page / Aotearoa, Australia, Fiji, Hawaiʻi, New Caledonia, Sāmoa, Tonga, (2017)
• Le’o o e Pasifiki : voices of the Pacific / Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Sāmoa, Tokelau, Tonga, (2022)
• Niu voices / Aotearoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaiʻi, Kiribati, Niue, Sāmoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis & Futuna (2006)
• Nuanua / Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Sāmoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu (1995)
• Vā : stories by women of the moana / Aotearoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaiʻi, Papua New Guinea, Rotuma, Sāmoa, Tonga, Torres Strait Islands (2021)
• Whetu Moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English / Aotearoa, Cook Islands, Hawaiʻi, Niue, Rotuma, Sāmoa, Tonga (2013)

*For books by and about New Zealanders, please see our Māori and New Zealand booklists.