Auckland Council Libraries: Top 10 our book clubs loved

Top 10 our book clubs loved

Our book clubs loved these reads and we hope you do too! Curated by our librarians for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 2022.

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True biz

Sara Novic

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Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, True Biz is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.

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To paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

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A bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, To Paradise is about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

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Better the blood

Michael Bennett

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Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career. Touching on urgent themes, Better the Blood examines the uneasy integration of identity and heritage into a multicultural society.

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The library of unfinished business

Patricia (Author) Bell

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The Library of Unfinished Business is the story of a sad and disillusioned man who searches for the courage to transform his life - even after it has ended - and of a daughter who learns that her father’s love is mighty beyond imagining.

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Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

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Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world caught between two Glasgow housing estates. A revealing story about family, the violence faced by so many queer people and the dangers of loving too much.

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Lessons in chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she’d be the first to point out there’s no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her male colleagues take a very unscientific view of equality. But, like science, life is unpredictable.

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The perfect golden circle, or, The strange rites of an English summer

Benjamin Myers

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England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatised Falklands veteran Calvert and affable, chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.

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Maps of our spectacular bodies

Maddie Mortimer

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Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a happy and balanced family of three. But when a tragic diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to change, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.

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People person

Candice Carty-Williams

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Dimple Pennington knew of her half-siblings, but she didn't really know them beyond faint memories of driving through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep. That is until a catastrophic event brings her half-siblings crashing back into her life.

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The candy house

Jennifer Egan

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Bix is 40 and desperate for a new idea when he stumbles into a conversation group of professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading memory. A decade later, Bix’s technology ‘Own Your Unconscious’ has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.

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