17 Dec 2019

Claire Mabey's top ten reads for 2019

From Afternoons, 2:10 pm on 17 December 2019

In our last book chat of the year! Claire Mabey Director of Verb Wellington is in to share her top ten reads of the year.

 

The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell (Fiction) 
There There - Tommy Orange (Fiction)
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor (Fiction) 
The Burning River - Lawrence Patchett (NZ Fiction) 
A Mistake - Carl Shuker (NZ Fiction) 
Lives of Great Men - Chike Frankie Edozien (Non Fiction/Journalism) 
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica - Rebecca Priestley (NZ Non Fiction)
Notes to Self - Emilie Pine (Non Fiction)
Native Son - Witi Ihimaera (NZ Non Fiction) 
The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox (NZ Fiction)