Books Events in Auckland

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Silo Cinema: Bookworm

 Fri, 10 Apr at 07:00 am Wynyard Quarter, 96 Jellicoe Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010

140. Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power

 Sun, 17 May at 07:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

Celestial Events Starfall Ball™ (Auckland Soiree)

 Sat, 19 Sep at 07:00 pm Auckland Art Gallery AUD 398

72. R. F. Kuang

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

105. Dav Pilkey: Supercharged Creativity!

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

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2026 - Tāmaki Auckland

 Wed, 10 Jun at 06:30 pm SkyCity Theatre NZD 0 to 58

4. Lunch with Patrick Radden Keefe

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Metita

113. To Hell and Back

 Sun, 17 May at 02:10 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

48. Mick Herron

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

91. Roddy Doyle

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

45. (VIRTUAL) Ian McEwan

 Fri, 15 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

62. Empire of AI

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

89. Tame Iti: Mana

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

78. S. A. Cosby

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

87. Pax Assadi: Mortified

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

83. Tayari Jones

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

82. Elizabeth Knox: Plausibility, Tone and Truth

 Sat, 16 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

84. Who Gets to Tell the Story?

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

77. Amitav Ghosh

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

127. Louise Erdrich

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

5. Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026

 Wed, 13 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

68. Charlotte McConaghy

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

136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

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

63. Fail Again. Fail Better?

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

138. The Dead Speak: A Life in Forensics

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

36. Ara: A Maori Guidebook of the Mind

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

40. Yann Martel

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

137. Lessons on Living: A Tribute to Nigel Latta

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

132. Lyse Doucet

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

44. A Big Night Out for Little Bookworms

 Fri, 15 May at 06:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

88. Helen Garner: How to End a Story

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

128. The Mushroom Tapes

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

47. Mieko Kawakami

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

The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul│AUCKLAND BOOK LAUNCH

 Wed, 15 Apr at 08:00 am Flying Nun Records, 202 Karangahape Road, Auckland

92. The Spice Salon

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

123. Elizabeth Knox: Night, Ma

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

$5 Fill-A-Bag Sale | EcoFest

 Fri, 10 Apr at 11:00 pm 990 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand 1022

24. Barbara Demick

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

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

Storytime Stitching April book club Milford

 Fri, 17 Apr at 05:30 pm The Booklover Bookshop NZD 130

70. The Chief and The Empire

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

129. No Country for Middle-Aged Men?

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

107. Tareq Baconi

 Sun, 17 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

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

133. Sliding Doors

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 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

110. The Rise of Romance

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

99. Lily King: Heart the Lover

 Sun, 17 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

22. The Mother of All Journeys

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

Unity Books in Conversation With Charlotte Grimshaw

 Sun, 12 Apr at 05:45 pm 19 High Street NZD 10

Dungeons & Dragons: Franklin Community Hub

 Sat, 11 Apr at 04:00 am 49 Wakelin Rd, Beachlands, Auckland 2018, New Zealand

Ruslan Horovyi - Documentary Screening

 Thu, 23 Apr at 06:30 pm St Heliers Church & Community Centre NZD 11

43. Small Towns, Dark Truths

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

90. Grieving Together: Tusiata Avia and Nafanua Purcell Kersel

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

75. Deepa Bhasthi: Translating with an Accent

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

126. Zines NZ: From Punk to Present

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

102. Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century

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

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

100. David Moscrop: Canada at a Crossroads

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

46. Florence Knapp

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

34. A Shaken World Order?

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

35. Charlotte Grimshaw

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

69. Maria Reva

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

Secrets by the Seaside - St Heliers MITL

 Thu, 07 May at 08:00 am St Heliers Community Library (Saint Heliers)

Horses & Us Author Talk with Johanna Emeney

 Sat, 11 Apr at 04:30 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

131. Bryan Walpert: Digging Sideways into Character

 Sun, 17 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

114. Thinking Differently

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Loft, Q Theatre

64. Retelling Female Histories

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

15. The Cost of Care

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

21. Discovering Medieval Manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand

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

32. From East to West and Back Again

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

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

12. Daniel Hahn: An Introduction to Translation

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

16. Alexandra Lapierre

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am 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

Movie Afternoon

 Mon, 13 Apr at 04:30 am 12 Glendale Road, Auckland, New Zealand 0602

98. Breton Dukes: Writing Fact into Fiction

 Sun, 17 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

31. The Happenstance Historians

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

Pyjama Storytime for the Planet

 Thu, 09 Apr at 07:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

55. Maria Reva: Creating Character Networks

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

Piringatahi | Heritage Collections Up Close : Art of the Bookplate

 Thu, 23 Apr at 02:00 pm Whare Wānanga, Central City Library Free

Archangel's Eternity Book Launch with Nalini Singh

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

Encore! Librarians at Lunchtime

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

Quiet Hour

 Wed, 22 Apr at 03:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

Wednesdy Book Chat

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

Coffee, Cake & Conversation

 Fri, 10 Apr at 12:30 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

Movies in the Library

 Thu, 16 Apr at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

Worldbuilding Workshop for Beginners (Ages 8+)

 Thu, 16 Apr at 11:00 am Avondale Library Free