13 Best memoir books like Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce

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Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days

By: Victoria Bruce

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m…

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1. 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

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2. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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3. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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4. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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5. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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6. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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7. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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8. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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9. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

By: Michael Bennett

3.94

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more

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11. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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12. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Straight Up

By: Ruby Tui

4.38

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"

-Ruby Tui, Straight Up

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14. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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15. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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16. Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days

By: Victoria Bruce

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • memoir
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17. The Girl from London

By: Olivia Spooner

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children fro… read more

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18. An Unlikely Prisoner

By: Sean Turnell

4.28

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Australia’s most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond

By: Chris Long

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

**The number-one bestseller** The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Last Secret Agent

By: Pippa Latour

4.55

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story

By: Jools Topp

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The iconic Kiwi duo - comedians, country music stars, yodellers, lesbians - in their own words. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. The Call

By: Gavin Strawhan

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deport… read more

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23. Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant

By: Cristina Sanders

4.01

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne t… read more

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24. Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond

By: Paul Kilgour

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren

By: Craig Hoyle

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother by Ineke Meredith

26. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled

By: Lisa Jansen

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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29. At The Grand Glacier Hotel

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.53

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a If they ever visit the West Coast o… read more

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30. The Nine Lives of Kitty K: The Unsung Heroine of the Goldfields

By: Margaret Mills

3.89

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in a turbulent period of goldfields’ history, The Nine Lives of Kitty K. paints a vivid picture… read more

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31. The Life of Dai

By: Dai Henwood

4.43

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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