10 Best biography memoir books like Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

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If you liked the biography memoir plot in Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. A Fortunate Life

By: Albert B. Facey , A.B. Facey

4.23

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with … read more

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history
biography
memoir
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

2. Talking To My Country

By: Stan Grant

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity. In July… read more

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3. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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4. 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

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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australia
audiobook

6. 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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history
biography
memoir
biography memoir
nonfiction
audiobook

7. 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
indigenous

8. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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australia
indigenous

9. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

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biography
memoir
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

10. 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

11. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

By: Eddie Betts

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.… read more

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history
biography
memoir
indigenous
autobiography
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

12. 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

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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history
biography
memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

14. 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
indigenous
autobiography
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

15. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

Similar categories in Archie Roach's Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music book and Archie Roach's Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

music
history
biography
memoir
indigenous
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

16. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

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music
biography
memoir
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."
-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl
"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."
-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

17. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

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nonfiction
memoir

18. 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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history
biography
memoir
indigenous
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

19. 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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history
biography
indigenous
nonfiction
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

20. 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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biography
memoir
autobiography
biography memoir
nonfiction
australia
audiobook

21. The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life

By: Paul Callaghan