Poppies Books is a book shop on Picton Street in Howick, Auckland, rated 4.8. The shelves range widely, from New Zealand fiction such as Kelly Ana Morey's Ordinary People Like Us, through current affairs like Dirty Work on the Taxpayers' Union, memoir with How to Be Hopeful, travel writing including The Only Way Is Up and A Will and a Way, local history in They Covered the House in Stories and Te Tuhi, cookbooks like Two Raw Sisters' How We Cook, and crime fiction from Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel to Agent Zigzag. That kind of range is what separates a proper local bookshop from a supermarket shelf of bestsellers: someone has actually read widely enough to stock New Zealand writing alongside overseas titles across fiction and nonfiction, rather than just chasing whatever's trending. On Picton Street in Howick, Poppies Books carries that broad, well-read mix.