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Elisabeth Easther with her favourite reads of 2020: Aue by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, $35), The Heavens by Sandra Newman (Allen & Unwin, $32.99) and The Overstory by Richard Powers (Penguin Books… Audio

Dean Bedford selects his three favourite books from 2020: Audience of One - Donald Trump Television and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik (WW Norton & Co, $42) Bill Birch - Minister of… Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews her favourite reads from last year: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Tramp Press), How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (Little, Brown Book… Audio

Kiran Dass with her top books from 2020: Funny Weather: Art in An Emergency by Olivia Laing (Picador) Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books) A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Audio

Phil Vine reviews his top reads from last year: Summer by Ali Smith (Penguin Books, $34), Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, $33) and Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth (HarperCollins, $33). Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books with her top picks from 2020: Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis, Bodley Head paperback Upriver: from the Sea to the Southern Alps by Colin Heinz Upstream on the… Audio

Ralph McAllister with his top three reads of 2020: Honeybee by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) JFK by Fredrik Logevall (Penguin Books, $40) Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe (Penguin Books, $37) Audio

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin, with her three favourite books of last year.  Audio

Hannah August shares her favourite reads from 2020, three New Zealand books: Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson, $35), Rat King Landlord by Murdoch Stephens (Lawrence & Gibson, $20)… Audio

Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Best of Me: Ultimate Short Story Collection by David Sedaris. This book is published by Little, Brown Book Group. Audio

Harry Broad reviews The Cousins by Karen McManus, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Bookshops are always heaving in the week running up to Christmas, but the delays in stock arriving this year have added another layer to the book buying dilemma. Former bookseller Robert Kelly joins… Audio

John Duke of Unity Books reviews Talking Animals by Joni Murphy, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Audio

Chris Tse reviews Wow by Bill Manhire, published by Victoria University Press. Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan, published by Hachette. Audio

Faith Wilson reviews Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

Peter Hambleton reviews Acting and How to Survive It by Peter Feeney, published by Tinderbox Press. Audio

Anne Else reviews House of Treasures: 150 Objects from Canterbury Museum Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho by James Herries Beattie (and others). Published by Canterbury Museum. Audio

Phil Vine reviews Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Niki Ward of Unity Books reviews What We'll Build by Oliver Jeffers, published by HarperCollins. Plus, The Night After Christmas by Kes Gray and Claire Powell, published by Hachette. Audio

Jonathan West reviews A Long Time Coming: The story of Ngāi Tahu's treaty settlement negotiations with the Crown by Martin Fisher. This book is published by Canterbury University Press. Audio