If You Like…

If you like books in a certain style or by a particular author, you may wish to explore some of these. For even more reading ideas try our Novelist or Books and Authors premium websites, our lists of award winning books or subscribe to our email newsletters.

• Fiction
• Biographies & Non-Fiction
• Detective & Mystery Fiction
• Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Kids
• Large Print
• New Zealand Fiction
• Contemporary Women Writers
• Teens

Fiction

Biographies & Non-Fiction

• Angela's ashes
• Bill Bryson
• Biographies about people triumphing over adversity
• Biographies about persecution and escape
• Stories of the East (novels and memoirs with an Asian focus)
• Longitude by Dava Sobel (narrative non-fiction)
• Madcap Journeys (travel stories)
• Jean Sasson’s Princess
• Te Reo Māori

Detective & Mystery Fiction

• American mystery stories
• Novels about American private eyes
• Best of British detective stories (when you have exhausted Agatha Christie)
• Sandra Brown
• Patricia Cornwell
• Espionage (spies and spying)
• Detective stories around the world and in earlier eras
• Hardboiled crime (crime novels that walk on the wild side)
• Mysteries with a light touch (comedy thrillers and satirical detective stories)
• The police at work
• Psychological mysteries (emphasis on the criminal, not detection)
• Woman detectives

Fantasy & Science Fiction

• The Lord of the Rings
• Science fiction and fantasy
• Star Wars
• Terry Pratchett / Douglas Adams
• Time travel and alternate history

New Zealand Fiction

• Māori writers
• New Zealand historical fiction
• Modern New Zealand novelists
• New Zealand mystery and adventure writers
• Modern New Zealand romantic fiction writers
• New Zealand short stories
• Te Reo Māori

In Large Print

• Best of British detective stories (when you have exhausted Agatha Christie)
• Catherine Cookson
• Dick Francis
• A good humorous novel