The Bone People, Keri Hulme, 1984
- New Zealand, #7
- Hardback, borrowed from Brent Library, London
- Read May 2015
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: People who have been told they’re too intense; self-identified freaks
The Bone People: Eccentrics at work
Plumb: The unsurprising hypocrisy of an Important White Man
Plumb, Maurice Gee, 1978
- New Zealand, #6
- Kindle, £6.99 from Amazon.com
- Read: May 2015
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: The disillusioned adult children of narcissists
Faces in the Water: Blurring the lines of reality
Faces in the Water, Janet Frame, 1961
- New Zealand, #5
- Kindle, £3.99 from Amazon.co.uk
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Anyone who’s ever felt their grip on reality might be slipping
Maori Girl: Unintentional racism in the social protest novel
Maori Girl, Noel Hilliard, 1960
- New Zealand, #4
- Hardcover, £10.11 from Alibris.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Strictly for social historians interested in the early stages of Maori civil rights in NZ
The Garden Party
The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield, 1922
- New Zealand, #3
- Kindle edition, free from amazon.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Tragic loners and the unhappily married
Polynesian Mythology
Polynesian Mythology, Sir George Grey, 1854 (full title: Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs … the man obviously could have used a good editor)
- New Zealand, # 1
- Free at sacredtexts.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Patient cultural anthropologists
Oceanic Mythology (Polynesia section)
Oceanic Mythology, Roland B. Dixon, 1916
- New Zealand, #2
- Free at sacred-texts.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 1/5
- Recommended for: Miserable pedants
Carpentaria
Carpentaria, Alexis Wright, 2006
- Australia, #24
- Hardcover, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read December 2014
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: Vengeful ghosts, ancient mariners, environmentalists
The Shark Net
The Shark Net, Robert Drewe, 2000
- Australia, #23
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read January 2015
- Rating 2.5/5
- Recommended for: Amateur historians with an insatiable curiosity about mid-century Western Australia
Death of a River Guide
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan, 1994
- Australia, #22
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read January 2015
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Opening line: As I was born the umbilical cord tangled around my neck and I came into the world both arms flailing, unable to scream and thereby take in the air necessary to begin life outside of the womb, being garrotted by the very thing that had until that time succoured me and given me life.
- Recommended for: Reading breaks between fever dreams
Around the World in 2000 Books 