General Adult Fiction
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Better Off Dead by Lee Child
- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
- The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley
- The Seven Sisters: Maia's Story by Lucinda Riley
- The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- The Promise by Damon Galgut
- The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley
New Zealand Adult Fiction
- Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
- The Leonard Girls by Deborah Challinor
- Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
- Three Sisters by Heather Morris
- The Fish by Lloyd Jones
- Exit .45 by Ben Sanders
- To Italy, With Love by Nicki Pellegrino
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
- The Nine Lives of Kitty K. : an unsung heroine of the goldfields by Margaret Mills
- Auē by Becky Manawatu
General Adult Non-fiction
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a **** by Mark Manson
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
- Windswept & Interesting : my autobiography by Billy Connolly
- Sapiens : A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Veg by Jamie Oliver
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Four Thousand Weeks : Time and how to use it by Oliver Burkeman
- Back to School Snacks by Sophia Young
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
New Zealand Adult Non-fiction
- The Boy from Gorge River by Chris Long
- Gone Bush by Paul Kilgour
- Yum! by Nadia Lim
- The Edible Backyard by Kath Irvine
- Essential by Annabel Langbein
- The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
- Salad by Rosa & Margo Flanagan
- Two Raw Sisters : All Eaters Welcome by Rosa & Margo Flanagan
- Imposter by Matt Chisholm
- Rich enough? by Mary Holm
Adult Graphic Novels
- Sapiens. A Graphic History by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- A Game of Thrones : The Graphic Novel by Daniel Abraham
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Dune : The Graphic Novel by Brian Herbert
- The Adventure Zone by Clint McElroy
- The Mental Load : A Feminist Comic by Emma
- Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe