23 Top biography books like Caught in the Act by Courtney Act

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Caught in the Act

By: Courtney Act

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised …

If you liked the biography plot in Caught in the Act by Courtney Act , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Rolling with the Punchlines

By: Urzila Carlson

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of great stories about both the … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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3. The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

By: Leah Purcell

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson … read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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5. Time of My Life

By: Myf Warhurst

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

From the much-loved Myf Warhurst comes a captivating and joyous memoir of wisdom, humour and heart … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Lisa

By: Lisa Curry

4.25

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple … read more

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  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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7. Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country

By: Brooke Blurton

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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8. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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9. Last Shot

By: Jock Zonfrillo

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin s… read more

Similar categories in Jock Zonfrillo's Last Shot book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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11. Caught in the Act

By: Courtney Act

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Act's Caught in the Act book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • queer
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12. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

Similar categories in Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

By: Judith Lucy

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Trade Paperback

Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, sh… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. Speaking in Tongues

By: Tom Tilley

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinve… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir

By: Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag supersta… read more

Similar categories in Alaska Thunderfuck 5000's My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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18. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

By: Jack Charles

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. Australia Day

By: Stan Grant

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."

-Stan Grant, Australia Day

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21. Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.98

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"I am almost ashamed to admit how much I love getting a laugh-for me, it is still the ultimate high. Admittedly, I don't take a lot of drugs."

-Kitty Flanagan, Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

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22. Drag Queen of Scots: The Dos and Don’ts of a Drag Superstar

By: Lawrence Chaney

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag) Queen of Scots… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Chaney's Drag Queen of Scots: The Dos and Don’ts of a Drag Superstar book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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23. Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings

By: Dylan Alcott

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The astonishing life of Australia's most inspirational athlete Not long after he was born in 1990, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Not Like Other Dads

By: Sean Szeps

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless, frank and funny memoir about reinventing the rules of parenting Sean had wanted to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women

By: Kaz Cooke

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed … read more

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  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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26. Sex, Lies and Question Time

By: Kate Ellis

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Sex, Lies and Question Time, former MP Kate Ellis explores the good, the bad and the ugly of lif… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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27. Behind the Voice

By: Anthony Callea

4.17

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An honest and candid memoir from one of Australia’s most phenomenal voices. A story of determinatio… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Growing Up Queer in Australia

By: Benjamin Law

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • queer
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29. We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents

By: Eliza Hull

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism tre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Dish: Spiels, scoops, emotional outbursts and the occasional recipe by Rhys Nicholson

30. Dish: Spiels, scoops, emotional outbursts and the occasional recipe

By: Rhys Nicholson

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Every now and then, when the planets align in just the right way, a book comes along that changes e… read more

Similar categories in Rhys Nicholson's Dish: Spiels, scoops, emotional outbursts and the occasional recipe book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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31. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Courtney Act's Caught in the Act

  • queer
  • lgbt

6 Top book club books like Caught in the Act by Courtney Act

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

Leah Purcell

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Love Stories

Trent Dalton

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lisa

Lisa Curry

4.25

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Heather Rose

3.96

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