16 must-read memoir books like Lioness by Sue Brierley

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Lioness

By: Sue Brierley

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION. Saroo Br…

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1. The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock #1)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.58

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a mystery … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Jeffrey Zaslow, Chesley B. Sullenberger III

2. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Zaslow's Sully: My Search for What Really Matters book and Sue Brierley's Lioness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. A Long Way Home

By: Saroo Brierley

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

4. Breath

By: Tim Winton

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more

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5. 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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  • audiobook
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6. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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8. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

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  • audiobook
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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9. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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10. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible … read more

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  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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12. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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  • audiobook
"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

Cover of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

13. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself by Toni Lodge

14. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself

By: Toni Lodge

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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16. The Redgum River Retreat

By: Sandie Docker

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The heart-warming new novel by the bestselling author of The Kookaburra Creek Hotel and The Wattle … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Lioness by Sue Brierley

17. Lioness

By: Sue Brierley

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION. Saroo Br… read more

Similar categories in Sue Brierley's Lioness book and Sue Brierley's Lioness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. The Vet from Snowy River

By: Stella Quinn

4.18

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

A hot vet. A rebellious teenager. And meddling but well-meaning townsfolk. Vera gets more than she … read more

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  • audiobook
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20. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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22. Teacher

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.29

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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23. The Secrets of the Huon Wren

By: Claire van Ryn

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more

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24. The House With All The Lights On

By: Jessica Kirkness

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive

By: Jelena Dokic

4.01

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. Tell No One

By: Brendan Watkins

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning memoir of one man's search for his birth parents, which uncovered an astonishing global … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef by Julie Goodwin

27. Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

By: Julie Goodwin

4.57

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In m… read more

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  • biography
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28. Growing Up Disabled in Australia

By: Carly Findlay

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voice… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I want to sit with my best friend and ask about bras, scars, tingling sensations and numb nipples. Instead, I’m stuck having clinical conversations."

-Carly Findlay, Growing Up Disabled in Australia

Cover of We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents by Eliza Hull

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
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30. The Last Trace

By: Petronella McGovern

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Why Does It Still Hurt?: how the power of knowledge can overcome chronic pain by Paul Biegler

31. Why Does It Still Hurt?: how the power of knowledge can overcome chronic pain

By: Paul Biegler

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Chronic pain is the single biggest cause of human suffering. Yet pain that persists for three month… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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