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

