FICTION

Coming Rain, by Stephen Daisley (Text Publishing)

GENERAL NON-FICTION

Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood, by Witi Ihimaera (Penguin Random House)

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION

Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris (Bridget Williams Books)

POETRY

The Conch Trumpet, by David Eggleton (Otago University Press)

BEST FIRST BOOKS

David Coventry for his novel The Invisible Mile

Chris Tse for his poetry collection How to be Dead in the Year of Snakes.

Melissa Matutina Williams for Panguru and the City: Kainga Tahi, Kainga Rua

Richard Nunns for Te Ara Puoro: A Journey Into the World of Maori Music: Listener 100 Best Books 2015,