16 Best nonfiction books like The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White

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The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

By: Corey White

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of trauma, evil and resilience that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Anti-Cool Girl

By: Rosie Waterland

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Brutal, brave, hilarious -- a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can thro… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

3. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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5. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Honeybee book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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7. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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9. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
"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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11. Heartstrong

By: Ellidy Pullin

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'If not with you, then for you.' 'It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin k… read more

Similar categories in Ellidy Pullin's Heartstrong book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Grace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • 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

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13. Emotional Female

By: Yumiko Kadota

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more

Similar categories in Yumiko Kadota's Emotional Female book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
  • 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

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • 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. 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 Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. 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

Similar categories in Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • 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

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19. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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20. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • audiobook
  • book club
  • australia
  • mental health
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21. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White

22. The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

By: Corey White

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of trauma, evil and resilience that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild… read more

Similar categories in Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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23. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Taylor's Search History book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. 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 Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • 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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25. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

Similar categories in Wil Anderson's I Am NOT Fine, Thanks book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Crushing by Genevieve Novak

26. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's Crushing book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
  • audiobook
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27. The Morbids

By: Ewa Ramsey

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Heart-wrenching, heart-warming and ultimately uplifting--a story about the power of a little kindne… read more

Similar categories in Ewa Ramsey's The Morbids book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • mental health
Cover of Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan

28. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
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29. Come

By: Rita Therese

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Rita Therese is a 25-year-old sex worker, artist and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She ente… read more

Similar categories in Rita Therese's Come book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree

30. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir

By: Charlotte Ree

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Ree's Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna  Johnston

31. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Corey White's The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

  • australia
  • audiobook

13 must-read book club books like The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White

Transform Your Habits

The Anti-Cool Girl

Rosie Waterland

4.12

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

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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