Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King (Viking, 2000)
Fiction
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, 2000)
Poetry
The Bells of Saint Babel’s: Poems 1997–2001 by Allen Curnow (Auckland University Press, 2001)
History & Biography (first equal)
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King (Viking, 2001)
History & Biography (first equal)
Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance edited by Te Miringa Hohaia and Gregory O'Brien and Lara Strongman (Victoria University Press & Parihaka Pā Trustees, 2001)
Environment
Dancing Leaves: The Story of New Zealand’s Cabbage Tree by Philip Simpson (Canterbury University Press, 2000)
Lifestyle
Fresh by Julie Biuso, photography by Ian Batchelor (New Holland, 2000)
Illustrative Arts
Ralph Hotere: Black Light edited by Ian Wedde (Te Papa Press, 2000)
Readers’ Choice
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King (Viking, 2000)
The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book for Fiction
Emerald Budgies by Karyn Hay (Vintage, 2000)
The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry
Animals Indoors by Stephanie De Montalk (Victoria University Press, 2000)
The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book for Non-Fiction
Pūkaki: A Comet Returns by Paul Tapsell (Reed, 2000)
