Books Events in Auckland

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105. Dav Pilkey: Supercharged Creativity!

 Sun, 17 May at 11:30 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

4. Lunch with Patrick Radden Keefe

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Metita

48. Mick Herron

 Fri, 15 May at 08:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

45. (VIRTUAL) Ian McEwan

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

91. Roddy Doyle

 Sat, 16 May at 08:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

36. Ara: A Maori Guidebook of the Mind

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

3. Patrick Radden Keefe

 Tue, 12 May at 08:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

67. Writing in Today's America

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

128. The Mushroom Tapes

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

68. Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

88. Charlotte McConaghy

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

2. (VIRTUAL) Maggie O'Farrell

 Tue, 12 May at 06:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

84. Who Gets to Tell the Story?

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

78. S. A. Cosby

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

40. Yann Martel

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

77. Amitav Ghosh

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

83. Tayari Jones

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

87. Pax Assadi: Mortified

 Sat, 16 May at 06:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

127. Louise Erdrich

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

82. Elizabeth Knox: Plausibility, Tone and Truth

 Sat, 16 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

138. The Dead Speak: A Life in Forensics

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

137. Lessons on Living: A Tribute to Nigel Latta

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

47. Mieko Kawakami

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

$5 Fill-A-Bag Sale

 Fri, 03 Jul at 11:00 pm 990 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand 1022

30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

79. Hope in the Machine

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

13. Inside the Story

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

60. Betsy Balloon

 Sat, 16 May at 10:00 am Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

86. Bora Chung

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

99. Lily King: Heart the Lover

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

124. Hannah Kent: A Love Letter to Iceland

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

14. The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2026 Winner

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

70. The Chief and The Empire

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

110. The Rise of Romance

 Sun, 17 May at 12:40 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

129. No Country for Middle-Aged Men?

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

Storytime Stitching May book club Milford

 Fri, 22 May at 05:30 pm The Booklover Bookshop NZD 130

22. The Mother of All Journeys

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

Ockham Lecture: Connections between Connections with Kerry Ann Lee

 Mon, 11 May at 05:30 pm Objectspace Free

43. Small Towns, Dark Truths

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

100. David Moscrop: Canada at a Crossroads

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

102. Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

Love is an action: Zine-making workshop with Kerry Ann Lee and Moira Clunie

 Sun, 10 May at 10:00 am Objectspace NZD 17

65. Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

111. Dreaming for the Ocean In Us: Tangata Moana writers and Desire

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Loft, Q Theatre

69. Maria Reva

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

32. From East to West and Back Again

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

58. If This Be Magic: Shakespeare in Translation

 Sat, 16 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

37. Saltwater, Solitude and Songs of the Sea

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

12. Daniel Hahn: An Introduction to Translation

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

25. Vincent O'Malley: From Aotearoa New Zealand to the Emerald Isle

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

28. He Puawai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

15. The Cost of Care

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

64. Retelling Female Histories

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

131. Bryan Walpert: Digging Sideways into Character

 Sun, 17 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

Book Launch: Oceanic Architectural Routes: The Work of Mike Austin

 Wed, 06 May at 05:30 pm Objectspace Free

21. Discovering Medieval Manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

55. Maria Reva: Creating Character Networks

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

98. Breton Dukes: Writing Fact into Fiction

 Sun, 17 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

Archangel's Eternity Book Launch with Nalini Singh

 Tue, 05 May at 09:00 am Chapter Book & Tea Shop

Storytime Stitching May book club Hobsonville

 Sun, 24 May at 12:30 pm 214 Buckley Avenue NZD 108

Encore! Librarians at Lunchtime

 Wed, 06 May at 12:00 pm Central City Library Free

Wednesdy Book Chat

 Wed, 06 May at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

2026 Alice Griffin Shakespeare Lecture

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm B401-401 Free

Open Day

 Sat, 02 May at 12:00 am Manukau City, New Zealand