5 must-read indigenous books like Throat by Ellen Van Neerven

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Throat

By: Ellen Van Neerven

4.22

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Throat by Ellen Van Neerven , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope

1. Serious Concerns

By: Wendy Cope

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's Serious Concerns book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

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2. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

Similar categories in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • australia
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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3. Dance of the Happy Shades

By: Alice Munro

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzli… read more

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"I went around the house to the back door thinking, I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me home and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible."

-Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades

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4. Loaded

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake.… read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • queer
  • australia
  • lgbt
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5. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • school

6. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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Cover of Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

7. Dropbear

By: Evelyn Araluen

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Araluen's Dropbear book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan

8. Smart Ovens for Lonely People

By: Elizabeth Tan

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collecti… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Tan's Smart Ovens for Lonely People book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • australia
  • school
Cover of Flames by Robbie Arnott

9. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Flames book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • australia
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10. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

Similar categories in Tilly Lawless's Nothing but My Body book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • queer
  • australia
  • lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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11. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Watego's Another Day in the Colony book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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12. 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 Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
"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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13. Brooms

By: Jasmine Walls

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Walls's Brooms book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Throat by Ellen Van Neerven

14. Throat

By: Ellen Van Neerven

4.22

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Van Neerven's Throat book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • race
  • school
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • queer
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15. Berlin

By: Joanna Murray-Smith

3.58

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

A spine-tingling romantic thriller. Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreig… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Murray-Smith's Berlin book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • school
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16. Permafrost

By: S.J. Norman

3.88

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ … read more

Similar categories in S.J. Norman's Permafrost book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • queer
  • australia
  • lgbt
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17. Dress Rehearsals

By: Madison Godfrey

3.98

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binar… read more

Similar categories in Madison Godfrey's Dress Rehearsals book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • queer
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18. Love & Autism

By: Kay Kerr

4.29

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more

Similar categories in Kay Kerr's Love & Autism book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • nonfiction
Cover of What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems by Grant Chemidlin

19. What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems

By: Grant Chemidlin

4.05

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

 is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, … read more

Similar categories in Grant Chemidlin's What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Milk Teeth by Rae White

20. Milk Teeth

By: Rae White

4.11

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Milk Teeth is a highly original debut volume of poetry by the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize winner. It… read more

Similar categories in Rae White's Milk Teeth book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Guwayu - For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poetry by Jeanine Leane

21. Guwayu - For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poetry

By: Jeanine Leane

4.28

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Guwayu — For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over … read more

Similar categories in Jeanine Leane's Guwayu - For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poetry book and Ellen Van Neerven's Throat

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous

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