Sustainable Development Goals
#17Booksfor17SDGs 2025 Campaign
By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Shining a light on SDGs and our Ōtepoti authors
As we do annually, several UNESCO Cities of Literature will raise awareness about the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals with the social media campaign, “17 Books for the 17 SDGs.”
Each day, between Dec. 7 and 23, some UNESCO Cities of Literature will share book suggestions from their cities, using the hashtags #17Booksfor17SDGs and #17livrespour17ODD. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be highlighted each day, and relevant books tied to each participating city will be featured. These might be non-fiction titles that specifically address that day’s SDG or works of fiction that illuminate the theme.
The project, initiated by Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, seeks to draw attention to the SDGs and raise awareness through books and story. It also offers the chance to highlight the work of writers with ties to Cities of Literature. |
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Heartfelt thanks to our wonderful Ōtepoti writersfor making a difference ❤️ |
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📖1985: A NovelDominic Hoey (Penguin Group NZ, 2025) |
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📖Familiar Foods: Treats of AotearoaEdited by Hannah Molloy (Good Bitches Baking, 2025) |
📖Homegrown Fruit: a practical guideKath Irvine & Jason Ross (K + J Publishing, 2025) |
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📖A Counter of MoonsIona Winter (Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2025) |
📖A Will and a Way: On Foot Across FranceJennifer Andrewes (Parallel Lives, 2025) |
📖Everything but the medicine: A doctor’s taleLucy O’Hagan (Massey University Press, 2025) |
📖Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and NepalSusan Heydon (Manchester University Press, 2025) |
📖Pastoral CareJohn Prins (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖The Good FatherLiam McIlvanney (Zaffre Books, 2025) |
📖the intimacy busJanet Charman (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poemsFiona Kidman (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖THRIVE: 52 Principles for a Flourishing LifeKim Forrester (Kim Forrester Consulting, 2025) |
📖WonderlandTracy Farr (The Cuba Press, 2025) |
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📖Acting in AotearoaEdited by Hilary Halba and David O’Donnell (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) |
📖Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of SignificanceEdited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Henry Fanshaw Takes FlightGillian Torckler (David Bateman Ltd, 2025) |
📖How Stories Change Us - A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real LifeElaine Reese (Oxford University Press Inc, 2025) |
📖Little Myths: Rama and SitaSwapna Haddow and Darshika Varma (Hachette NZ, 2025) |
📖Minding his own Poetry Composing Business: A Biography of Peter OldsRoger Hickin (Cold Hub Press, 2025) |
📖Over the Road: an original work Peter Oldswith 10 illustrations from woodcuts & a portrait of the author by Wayne Seyb (Cold Hub Press, 2025) |
📖Ruth Dallas: A writer's lifeDiana Morrow (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Samples from the LabRob Foote (Creativity Unleashed Studio, 2024) |
📖Short | Poto: The big book of small stories | Iti te kupu, nui te kōreroEdited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong (Massey University Press, 2025) |
📖The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and ModernismProfessor Maebh Long and Dr Matthew Hayward (Columbia University Press, 2025) |
📖Twigs and StonesJoy Cowley and Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press, 2025) |
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📖Hiding PlacesLynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Mad DivaCadence Chung (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate 2nd EditionJoy Cowley, newly illustrated by Miho Satake (Gecko Press, 2025) |
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📖Whāia te Taniwha: Korero from Te WaipounamuContributor: Waiariki Parata-Taiapa (Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2025) |
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📖Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women DoctorsCynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway (Massey University Press, 2025) |
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📖Take Me With You 3! : Engineering Heritage of Coastal and Central OtagoKaren Wrigglesworth (Cliff Creatives, 2025) |
📖Touch ScreenPhilip Armstrong (Otago University Press, 2025) |
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📖Edges of Empire: The Politics of Immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020Francis L. Collins, Alan Gamlen and Neil Vallelly (Auckland University Press, 2025) |
📖The Book of GuiltCatherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025) |
📖The Terrible Trio: The (Not So) SuperheroesSwapna Haddow and Minky Stapleton (Scholastic NZ, 2025) |
📖The Unlikely Doctor: From gang life and prison to becoming a doctor at 56Dr Timoti Te Moke (Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ, 2025) |
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📖Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore CollectionJane Malthus and Claire Regnault, with photography by Derek Henderson (Te Papa Press, 2025) |
📖Chris Knox: Not Given LightlyCraig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025) |
📖Lifting the Island: PoemsDavid Eggleton (Red Hen Press, 2025) |
📖Olveston: Portrait of a HomeJane Usher and John Walsh (Massey University Press, 2025) |
📖Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truckHannah Bulloch (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Peter Cleverley: Between Transience and EternityAlistair Fox (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2025) |
📖The Tear BottleAnnemarie Jutel (Annemarie Jutel, 2025) |
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📖Coffee Creations: 90 delicious recipes for the perfect cupCeleste Wong (Octopus Publishing Group, 2024) |
📖New Zealand's Gourmet Pies: A mouth-watering journey into the heart of New Zealand pie cultureDerek Morrison (Adventure Media Group, 2024) |
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📖The Anatomy of SandMikaela Nyman (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025) |
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📖A Discovery in the RocksMary Duff (Mavesther Books, 2025) Features work by Emeritus Professor Ewan Fordyce |
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📖This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas Collected PoemsEdited by Nicola Cummins (Otago University Press, 2025) |
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📖Len Cook: South Dunedin to WhitehallAs told to Les Hill (Mary Egan Publishing, 2025) |
📖MANATame Iti (Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ, 2025) |
📖My Father's Happy Place: Pete ReidEdited by Tim Saunders (Amazon Digital Services, 2025) |
📖Preachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New ZealandSusannah Grant (Otago University Press 2025) |
📖show you're working outliz breslin (Dead Bird Books, 2025) |
📖Strong Words 4: The best of the Landfall Essay CompetitionSelected by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖The Black ThistleBeatrice Hale (Kellas Cat Press, 2025) |
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📖A shell-print of waves: Aramoana poemsEdited by David Eggleton and Michelle Elvy (At the Bay | I Te Kokoru, 2025) |
📖Landfall 249Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Landfall Tauraka 250Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2025) |
📖Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025: breathEdited by Tracey Slaughter (Massey University Press, 2025) |
📖Te Whāriki: Reading ten new poets from AotearoaEdited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill, Robert Sullivan (Auckland University Press, 2025) |
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