Auckland Girls' Grammar School

16,161 pages read and 1,702 team points

James Gates

1,198 pts
(998 pages read)
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    By Clarice Lispector
    4 stars

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz

    By Walter M. Miller Jr
    4 stars

  • Oh What a Paradise it Seems

    By John Cheever
    4 stars

    Novella. Not a NZ book and I probably wouldn't teach it (for a number of reasons) but Cheever manages to turn suburban life into bittersweet poetry.

  • Falling into Rarohenga

    By Steph Matuku
    4 stars

    Great book for pre-teens and early teens. Fantastic example of indigenous sci-fi/fantasy and I really love how psychedelic Matuku has made the Māori underworld. Recommended.

  • The Blue Between Sky and Water

    By Susan Abulhawa
    4 stars

    At once beautiful, tragic and horrific, this a family saga set in Gaza and the US. It's a novel about the strength of generations of Palestinian women and their resolve to keep their family and community alive. There's laughter too. A feminist classic.

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