Books in October 2011
| Date | Reviewer | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October | Sonja de Freiz | The Cook | Wayne Maccauley | Text |
| 4 October | Anne Buchanan | Autumn Laing | Alex Miller | Allen & Unwin |
| 5 October | Rae McGregor | Love at the End of the Road | Rae Roadley | Penguin |
| 6 October | Tina Shaw | Artists Impression of New Zealand | Denis Robinson | New Holland |
| 7 October | John McIntyre | Children's Book Review | ||
| 10 October | Don Rood | Wine, Women and Song - a Spitfire Pilot's Story | Hamish Brown | |
| 11 October | Ian Chapman | Freddie Mercury | Lesley Ann Jones | Hodder |
| 12 October | Paul Norris | Mike McRoberts: Beyond the Front Line | Mike McRoberts | HarperCollins |
| 13 October | Colin Monteath | My Heroes | Ranulph Fiennes | Hodder |
| 14 October | Dan Slevin | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Century |
| 17 October | Nicholas Reid | The Genius in my Basement | Alexander Masters | Fourth Estate |
| 18 October | Louise O'Brien | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | Jonathan Cape |
| 19 October | Ralph McAllister | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | Fourth Estate |
| 20 October | Gyles Beckford | The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True | Richard Dawkins | Bantam Press |
| 21 October | John McIntyre | Children's Book Review | ||
| 24 October | Labour Day Holiday |
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| 25 October | Michele A'Court | Seriously … I'm Kidding | Ellen DeGeneres | HarperCollins |
| 26 October | Quentin Johnson | Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 | Frank Dikotter | Allen & Unwin/Bloomsbury |
| 27 October | Phil Smith | Planet Word | Stephen Fry | Michael Joseph |
| 28 October | Gail Pittaway | The Impossible Dead | Ian Rankin | Orion |
| 31 October | Paul Diamond | Infrared | Nancy Huston | Text |