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Let me share with you some of Aotearoa NZ’s most important and influential works.

You’ll find these books and authors covered in classrooms. They’re classics and represent a portion of Aotearoa's literary taonga (treasure).

LOTR and so much more!

Whether it be the authors, the characters, the setting, or the country itself, these books are some of the essential reads of Aotearoa New Zealand. Fiction to nonfiction, prose to poetry, the stories of our people and our land are here. This list is ever-growing, and I will continue to add to it as I read more pukapuka from our shores.