9 must-read nonfiction books like The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson

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The Jane Austen Remedy

By: Ruth Wilson

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re…

"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."

-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson , here is a list of 9 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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  • audiobook
  • book club
  • australia
  • contemporary
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2. 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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  • books about books
  • 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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3. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
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5. A Brief Affair

By: Alex Miller

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner A… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • contemporary
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6. 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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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
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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
  • 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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8. All the Words We Know

By: Bruce Nash

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel about memory, language and love, perfect for fans of Ri… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
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9. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • audiobook
  • book club
  • australia
  • contemporary
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10. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

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  • australia
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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11. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • australia
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
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13. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • audiobook
  • book club
  • australia
  • contemporary
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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14. 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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  • contemporary
  • australia
  • 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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15. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

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  • audiobook
  • books about books
  • contemporary
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16. 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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17. 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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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
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18. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. The House That Joy Built

By: Holly Ringland

3.88

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
Cover of Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance by Kate Solly

22. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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23. The Jane Austen Remedy

By: Ruth Wilson

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • book club
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."

-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy

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24. Dinner with the Schnabels

By: Toni Jordan

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and … read more

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  • australia
  • contemporary
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25. The Opposite of Success

By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas

3.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more

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  • contemporary
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26. The Days Toppled Over

By: Vidya Madabushi

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Malli has an anxiety disorder that renders her unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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27. The Coast

By: Eleanor Limprecht

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Littl… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of A Question of Age: A groundbreaking and powerful book about women, ageing and the forever self by Jacinta Parsons

28. A Question of Age: A groundbreaking and powerful book about women, ageing and the forever self

By: Jacinta Parsons

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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29. Relative Strangers

By: A.H. Kim

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A twenty-first-century family drama featuring two sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy l… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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30. Raised by Wolves

By: Jess Ho

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunct… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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31. 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

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