Book Haven is a secondhand and preloved bookshop on Riddiford Street in Newtown, Wellington, with a few new books alongside. Its strength is local and New Zealand writing. The shop has sections for New Zealand fiction and non-fiction, Māori and Pasifika writing, and aotearoa and New Zealand history, essays, local history and School Journals. Politics, philosophy, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, vintage titles and general fiction are also on the shelves.
The website shows new stock arriving each week, which has included a guide to chess, a history of Jewish life in eastern Europe, a book on how statistics can mislead, and a Wellington artists' book. For a Newtown or Wellington reader who likes to browse rather than order online, the shop's shelves of local and secondhand titles are the main reason to visit. The phone number is (04) 380 0009.