This list is only a small selection of the many books added to the library network during 2000. We hope you will find some of interest to you.
Books with a 
beside them are especially recommended.
- Picture books
- Fiction for older readers
- Fiction for younger readers
- Young adults
- Information books
- New Zealand titles
In memoriam
- Verna Aardema
- Leonard Baskin
- Barbara Cooney
- Robert Cormier
- V H Drummond
- Edward Gorey
- Kathleen Hale
- Michael Noonan (NZ)
- Diana Ross
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
- Leonard Weisgard