16 Best nonfiction books like 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan

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488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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2. Reckoning: A Memoir

By: Magda Szubanski

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szuban… read more

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3. 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
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4. 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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • adult
  • 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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5. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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6. 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

Similar categories in Julia Baird's Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • 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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7. Challenge Accepted!

By: Celeste Barber

3.84

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's guide to life, lau… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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8. Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed th… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Caught in the Act

By: Courtney Act

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Act's Caught in the Act book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • 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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12. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Julia Gillard's Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

Similar categories in Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • humor
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • comedy
  • self help
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15. Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

By: Judith Lucy

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Trade Paperback

Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, sh… read more

Similar categories in Judith Lucy's Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Clare Bowditch's Your Own Kind of Girl book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • 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

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17. She's on the Money

By: Victoria Devine

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The ultimate millennial money guide, from the creator of Australia’s #1 finance podcast. Through… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Devine's She's on the Money book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef

18. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy

By: Shaun Micallef

3.80

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Micallef's Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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19. The Land Before Avocado

By: Richard Glover

3.91

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more

Similar categories in Richard Glover's The Land Before Avocado book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke

20. You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women

By: Kaz Cooke

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed … read more

Similar categories in Kaz Cooke's You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Admin Hacks: The step-by-step guide to saving time and money, reducing the mental load and streamlining your life by Mia Northrop

21. Life Admin Hacks: The step-by-step guide to saving time and money, reducing the mental load and streamlining your life

By: Mia Northrop

3.55

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A super-practical guide to cleaning up your admin load and freeing up head space. You have no i… read more

Similar categories in Mia Northrop's Life Admin Hacks: The step-by-step guide to saving time and money, reducing the mental load and streamlining your life book and Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Love Stories

Trent Dalton

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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

Julia Baird

3.78

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20 Top fiction books like The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) by Amanda Hampson

Transform Your Habits

Sleepless in Stringybark Bay

Susan Duncan

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sugar Palace

Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

Kerryn Mayne

4.07

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