The Reading Doctor: all our 2021 prescriptions

Welcome to the Reading Doctor 2021 round-up!

We introduced this service in early 2020 and we welcomed your questions again throughout 2021.

It's been another wonderful year of reading lists from our doctor.

Find the complete list of 2020 Reading Doctor prescriptions here

Read more about Dr Louise here. Send us your questions for her by emailing us: communications@read-nz.org

The complete 2021 reading prescriptions

School as a setting

The lives of NZ writers

Messing about in boats

War as a theme

For International Women's Day

The language of flowers

Searching for NZ Gothic

All about houses

Reading Australian novels

Novels of the silver screen

Stories of forbidden love

All about budgets

When death is a character

Watery novels

Queens

Dear reader...

Novels about imprisonment

Victoriana

Novels for winter

Stories about parties

Circadian novels

Risky business

Dogs!

Afghanistan

For the love of bookshops

Child narrators

The joys of spring

Family matters

Novels about cats

Unreliable narrators

Gone for a walk

Fake autobiographies

Fictional diaries

Dictionaries

Taking you away

Fictional biographies

Personal essays