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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 What do I read next? databases.

• 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