Books in August 2009
| Date | Reviewer | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August | Oliver Riddell | Helen Clark: A Political Life | Denis Welch | Penguin |
| 4 August | Louise O’Brien | How to Paint a Dead Man | Sarah Hall | Faber & Faber |
| 5 August | Sonja de Freiz | The Blue Notebook | James A. Levine | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 6 August | Crystal Beavis | Big Ideas: 100 Wonders of New Zealand Engineering | Matthew Wright | Random House NZ |
| 7 August | Don Rood | Hunting: A New Zealand History + Hunters, Rogues and Heroes (time permitting) | Kate Hunter Conner McKenzie | Random House NZ Penguin TPB |
| 10 August | Harry Broad | The Murder of King Tut | James Patterson | Century |
| 11 August | Penny Ashton | The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder | Rebecca Wells | HarperCollins |
| 12 August | Gail Pittaway | Reheated Cabbage | Irvine Welsh | Jonathan Cape |
| 13 August | Quentin Johnson | Target | Simon Kernick | Bantam Press |
| 14 August | John McIntyre | Children’s Book Review | ||
| 17 August | Jane Westaway | Starting Over | Tony Parsons | HarperCollins |
| 18 August | Rae McGregor | A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital | Linda Bryder | Auckland University Press |
| 19 August | Graham Beattie | Blood Line | Mark Billingham | Little, Brown |
| 20 August | Paul Diamond | The Prophet and the Policeman: The Story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen | Mark Derby | Craig Potton Publishing |
| 21 August | Laura Kroetsch | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | Bloomsbury |
| 24 August | Harry Ricketts | How We Saw the War | Ron Palenski | Hodder Moa |
| 25 August | Phil Vine | The Death of Bunny Munro | Nick Cave | Text Publishing |
| 26 August | Catriona Ferguson | The Locust and the Bird | Hanan Al-Shaykh | Bloomsbury |
| 27 August | Kate Blackhurst | Border Songs | Jim Lynch | Bloomsbury |
| 28 August | John McIntyre | Children’s Book Review | ||
| 31 August | Phil Smith | Living as a Moon | Owen Marshall | Random House NZ Vintage |