100 New Zealand Poems edited by Bill Manhire (Godwit, 1993)
Fiction
Let the River Stand by Vincent O'Sullivan (Penguin, 1993)
Non-Fiction
English-Māori Dictionary by H. M. Ngata (Learning Media, 1993)
New Zealand Book Awards
Poetry
How to Talk by Andrew Johnston (Victoria University Press, 1993)
Fiction
The Miserables by Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press, 1993)
Non-Fiction
Te Wai Pounamu, the Greenstone Island: A History of the Southern Māori During the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry Evison (Aoraki Press, 1993)
Book Production
The Wines and Vineyards of New Zealand, 4th Edition by Michael Cooper, edited and designed by Barbara Neilsen, photography by Robin Morrison (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)
