12 Best nonfiction books like My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent

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My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

By: Sam Vincent

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023 ‘My Father and Other Animals is a war…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • australia
  • 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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3. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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7. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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8. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. 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
  • australia
  • 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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11. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series,… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

By: Sam Vincent

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023 ‘My Father and Other Animals is a war… read more

Similar categories in Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • environment
  • audiobook
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22. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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23. The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience

By: Peter Goldsworthy

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My first stray cancer is a gift. I’m lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-write… read more

Similar categories in Peter Goldsworthy's The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are

By: Pia Miranda

3.92

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar

25. Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

By: Maggie MacKellar

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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26. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

Similar categories in Rick Morton's One Hundred Years of Dirt book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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

Similar categories in Julie Goodwin's Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • biography
Cover of Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke

28. Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

By: Lorin Clarke

4.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When satirist John Clarke died, in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost … read more

Similar categories in Lorin Clarke's Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke book and Sam Vincent's My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh

29. Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France

By: Rachael Mogan McIntosh

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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30. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook

26 Best audiobook books like My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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7 Best adult books like Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

Emma Espiner

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

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