It's time to reflect on another incredible year of books! Below you will find our chosen highlights for 2022, for both fiction and non-fiction. We've selected an eclectic mix of acclaimed local authors, New York Times Bestsellers, Pulitzer prize winners and breakthrough newcomers. There's plenty of choice for the deep-dive readers and coffee book lovers alike (and everyone in-between). Happy reading!
Ali, Monica
Armfield, Julia
Atkinson, Kate
Barnes, Julian
Bennett, Michael
Boyne, John
Bulawayo, NoViolet
Calder, Jem
Carroll, Steven
Challinor, Deborah
Chidgey, Catherine
Coco Solid
Coe, Jonathan
Crutchley, Nikki
De Goldi, Kate
Díaz, Hernán
Donoghue, Emma
Fearnley, Laurence
Garmus, Bonnie
Garner, Alan
Gluck, Louise
Gnanalingam, Brannavan
Hamid, Mohsin
Harris, Robert
Hoey, Dominic
Irving, John
Jonas, Julia May
Jones, Lloyd
Jones, Sadie
Karunatilaka, Shehan
Keegan, Claire
Kennedy, Louise
Kingsolver, Barbara
Lane, Chloe
Lane, Jennifer
Lapwood, Anthony
Lenihan, Colleen Maria
Leunens, Christine
Li, Yiyun
Ma, Ling
Magee, Audrey
Manguso, Sarah
McCarthy, Cormac
McEwan, Ian
McKenzie, Moses
Mendelson, Charlotte
Mortimer, Maddie
Mottley, Leila
Myers, Benjamin
Norman, Charity
O'Farrell, Maggie
O'Sullivan, Vincent
Palmer, Bobby
Pamuk, Orhan
Parton, Dolly
Pollard, Clare
Raisin, Ross
Richardson, Paddy
Riley, Peter
Sams, Saba
Sanders, Christina
Saunders, George
Schwartz, Selby Wynn
Serpell, Namwali
Shipstead, Maggie
Smith, Ali
Stephens, Murdoch
Stuart, Douglas
Tyler, Anne
Wait, Rebecca
Williams, Joy
Yanagihara, Hanya
Billingham, Mark
Boyle, Frankie
Burr, Shelley
Carey, C J
Chowdhury, Ajay
Cleave, Paul
Cleeves, Ann
Das, Rijula
Everett, Percival
Gentill, Sulari
Griffiths, Elly
Gutierrez, Katie
Habib, Conner
Hallett, Janice
Harper, Jane
Iglesias, Gabino
Khan, Vaseem
Lendrum, Simon
Leon, Donna
McAllister, Gillian
McDermid, Val
McIlvanney, Liam
Nattrass, Leonora
Norek, Olivier
Osman, Richard
Parks, Alan
Penny, Louise
Prose, Nita
Ragnar Jónasson
Rankin, Ian
Renée
Sussman, Fiona
Taylor, Chad
Welsh, Louise
Winslow, Don
Worrall, Patrick
Aaronovitch, Ben
Ashton, Edward
Barnes, S. A
Basu, Samit
Black, Holly
Blake, Olivie
Cardno, Marie
Chambers, Becky
Cole, Gina
Egan, Jennifer
Ennes, Hiron
Gauld, Tom
Giles, Harry Josephine
Jemisin, N. K
Liu, Ken
Mandel, Emily St. John
Martine, Arkady
Monáe, Janelle
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Muir, Tamsyn
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Newman, Sandra
Okorafor, Nnedi
Pheby, Alex
Scalzi, John
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Vo, Nghi
Wecker, Helene
Morland, Polly
Williams, Tracey
Shire, Warsan
Edmeades, Lynley
Parker, Eleanor Catherine
Pellegrino, Nicky
Diamond, Paul
Hyland, Véronique
Beaton, Kate
Ottolenghi, Yotam
Reeve, Dylan
Proulx, Annie
Ramaswamy, Chitra
Walter, Barbara F.
Hassan, Mohamed
Pasulka, Nicole
Kumar, Te Atawhai
Brendborg, Nicklas
Elkins, Caroline
Goody, Matthew
Murakami, Haruki
Halliday, Thomas
Matthews, Owen
Kihara, Shigeyuki
Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Monbiot, George
Vennell, Robert
Flanagan, Rosa
Rundell, Katherine
Freedland, Jonathan
Hamacher, Duane
O'Rourke, Meghan
Bowen, Jeremy
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Hollis, Matthew
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Atkinson, Brett
Berry, Emily
Hargreaves, Lynley
Mohamed, Khadro
Kingsbury, Noël
Wong, Alice
Worsley, Lucy
Calhoun, Ada
Taylor, Ross
Cave, Nick
Davis, Viola
Ernaux, Annie/ Strayer, Alison L. (TRN)
McCarthy, Noelle
McCurdy, Jennette
Bloom, Amy
Yovanovitch, Marie L.
Schulz, Kathryn
Farrar, Sarah
Zamora, Javier
Hsu, Hua
Tui, Ruby
Gadsby, Hannah
Shaw, Ruth
Hauser, CJ
