Most Popular in 2023 - Aotearoa
Library staff have compiled reports to discover 2023's popular items at Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. The books are listed in order of how many holds customers placed.
- Did I ever tell you this? : a memoir Sam Neill
- Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
- Second chances : facing my demons and finding a better me Hayley Holt
- The Axeman's carnival Catherine Chidgey
- From there to here Joe Bennett
- Pet Catherine Chidgey
- There's a cure for this : a memoir Emma Espiner
- Untouchable girls : the Topp Twins's story Jools and Lynda Topp
- The bookseller at the end of the world Ruth Shaw
- The dressmaker & the hidden soldier Doug Gold
- P.S. come to Italy Nicky Pellegrino
- Everything is beautiful and everything hurts : a novel Josie Shapiro
- Winter warmers : recipes & stories from a New Zealand high country station Philippa Cameron
- Fungi of Aotearoa : a curious forager's field guide Liv Sisson
- Lioness Emily Perkins
- Straight up Ruby Tui
- Laughing at the dark : a memoir Barbara Else
- The deck Fiona Farrell
- One of those mothers Megan Nicol Reed
- Smithy : endless winters & the spring of '22 Wayne Smith
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