Maori


The Whale Rider
The Bone People
Once Were Warriors
Potiki
Auē
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers
Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet
Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values
Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End
Better the Blood
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Kāwai For Such A Time As This
Maori Made Easy
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
In a Sunburned Country by Bill  BrysonLucky by Scott NelsonWhat Goes Up by Wen BaragreyThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  L. Nelson
Australia, New Zealand and Pacific
477 books — 104 voters

Better the Blood by Michael  BennettThe Eldest Girl by Olivia Aroha GilesWhaea Blue by Talia MarshallThe Pōrangi Boy by Shilo KinoAll That We Know by Shilo Kino
Māori Authors
19 books — 1 voter

The Devil Is a Southpaw by Brandon HobsonBig Chief by Jon HickeyThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham JonesWe Can Never Leave by H.E. EdgmonTo the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
2025 Releases by Indigenous Authors
33 books — 13 voters
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgePraiseworthy by Alexis WrightWhere Wolves Don't Die by Anton TreuerThe Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde GroverFrom the Hilltop by Toni Jensen
All Indigenous Peoples 5
99 books — 4 voters

Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand. Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance.
Toni Polancy, Hawai'I in Love

Karen Healey
It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at himself. 'Patupaiarehe look like monsters in some stories, but they're beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed more in the beautiful version. And the ideal of beauty changes. If I'd been born two hundred years ago, I bet I wouldn't look like this. The stories shaped me. They shape everyone, inside and out, but me more than most, because I'm magic. ...more
Karen Healey, Guardian of the Dead

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