GOOD BOOKS staff wishlists 2021
These are the books we would love to find under our trees on Christmas morning so we can read them over the holidays, ranging from novels we’ve been meaning to read for ages, to coffee-table tomes, and everything in between.
JANE
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt’s Creek by Daniel Levy & Eugene Levy
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
Ko Taranaki te Maunga by Rachel Buchanan
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
BECKS
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.
A Treasury of 8 Books by Tomi Ungerer
EAMONN
Björk’s Homogenic (33 ⅓) by Emily Mackay
I’m Going to Miss You: Photos by Rob Tennent
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris Mcdowall
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People On Earth by Wole Soyinka
FREYA
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes by Gavin Bishop
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
ROSE
Devotion by Hannah Kent
Bloody Woman: Essays by Lana Lopesi
How We Love: Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
A Game of Two Halves: The Best of SPORT 2005–2019 edited by Fergus Barrowman
CATHERINE
A Cook’s Book by Nigel Slater
Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI: Late Watercolours (1922-1941) by Daniel Birnbaum & Kurt Almqvist
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy & Eugene Levy
Penguin Classics: In Search of the Best Books Ever Written by Henry Eliot
The Forager's Treasury: The essential guide to finding and using wild plants in Aotearoa by Johanna Knox
