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A list of Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 Books of 2012-2013 compiled from thousands of votes was announced recently. The list is an eclectic mix of youth fiction and picture books that makes a useful reference for gift buying and for those parents wanting to encourage their children to read. You can also download the complete list in PDF format and use as a checklist. Whitcoulls Kids Top 50 Books List 2012-2013 In the number one position in 2012-2013 is The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, a trilogy featuring Katniss a strong young female main character in a dystopian world. The Hunger Games is also proving popular with adult readers which may help to explain its rise from number 5 on the 2011-2012 list to number one this year. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The second spot went to the much loved Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling while The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney was third. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by New Zealander writer Lynle...

The Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List for 2012-2013 as voted for by New Zealanders has been released recently with a good mix of timeless classics and some newcomers. Read on for details about the full list and to download your free copy in pdf format which you can use as a checklist and cross off the titles as you read them. Heading the list this year as the most favoured book is the award-winning crime series by Stieg Larsson, the Millennium Trilogy , ( The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ). In number two position is The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins which features a young heroine in a dystopian future. Coming in at number three is The Lord of The Rings series by J R R Tolkien, an epic very dear in the hearts of New Zealanders. The timeless love tale by Jane Austen of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice took fourth place. New to the Top 100 at number five is the controver...

The Killing Place by Tess Gerritsen is the eighth book in the Rizzoli and Isles series released in 2011 and has proved to be just as popular as her previous novel Keeping the Dead . Tess Gerritsen is a Chinese-American crime writer and retired physician whose crime busting duo Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr Maura Isles are a compelling pair. The Killing Place (aka Ice Cold) (Book #8 Rizzoli and Isles Series) By Tess Gerritsen Buy This Book at: Fishpond Mighty Ape Book Depository Amazon FREE audio version at: Audible with 3 month trial. Plot Summary of The Killing Place by Tess Gerritsen The eighth book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. Maura Isles is driving through ...

The Affair by Lee Child, the 16th book in the Jack Reacher series of thrillers hit the shelves of bookstores in 2012. What's different about The Affair is that it does not follow on from the events in his previous Jack Reacher thriller Worth Dying For but rather is a prequel which in the timeline of Jack Reacher covers the period prior to the first book Killing Floor . The Affair (Book #16 Jack Reacher Series) By Lee Child Buy This Book at: Fishpond Mighty Ape Book Depository Amazon FREE audio version at: Audible with 3 month trial. Plot Summary of The Affair by Lee Child #16 Jack Reacher Series The Affair is the prequel to Killing Floor, the first book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child which is good news for new readers to the Reacher series who can start with this book rather than having to begin in chronological order. The Affair is set in March 1997, six months before the events of Killing ...

Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Jack Reacher Series, Book #15) is out now and you are probably as eager to get your hands on the new Lee Child book as we are. It concerns tough-guy-drifter-loner Jack Reacher who, recovering from injuries sustained in the previous book 61 Hours , intervenes in a domestic violence situation in a two-bit town and incurs the wrath of the local heavy mob. Worth Dying For (Book #15 Jack Reacher Series) By Lee Child Buy This Book at: Fishpond Mighty Ape Book Depository Amazon FREE audio version at: Audible with 3 month trial. Plot Summary of Worth Dying For by Lee Child There is trouble in middle-of-nowhere corn county Nebraska . . . and when Jack Reacher stops off while hitchhiking to Virginia he walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades...

Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell featuring forensic pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta was released in 2010 to critical acclaim. Her series of fast-paced crime novels in which Kay Scarpetta, forensic examiner gets embroiled in all kinds of situations way outside her brief have garnered a dedicated following and placed Patricia Cornwell as one of the leading crime novelists in the world. Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell (Book #18 Dr Kay Scarpetta series) Buy This Book at: Fishpond Book Depository Amazon FREE audio version at: Audible with sign up

Whitcoulls Bookshop have recently announced a new Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List for 2010 as voted by New Zealand readers. This year has some surprises in store with some additions, some omissions and a change to the number 1 position after some years. What a surprise to see the Lord of the Rings Trilogy toppled after 12 years in the number 1 slot on the list. To add insult to injury Tolkein's 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy has been relegated to sixth place. While Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga has assumed second spot and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife has leapt from 14th place to third. Fortunately the new series by Steig Larsson The Millenium Trilogy which begins with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo followed by Girl Who Played With Fire and ends with the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is a worthy replacement to LOTR. Surprisingly some very popular books dro...