9 best-selling australia books like Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui

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Black is the New White

By: Nakkiah Lui

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The smash-hit play, in print for the first time with a foreword and notes from multitalented playwr…

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1. Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen

By: Erik Jensen , Erik Jensen

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008, the artist Adam Cu… read more

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  • australia
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2. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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  • plays
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Burial Rites

By: Hannah Kent

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from the First Term at Malory Towers a… read more

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  • fiction

5. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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6. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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7. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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8. Third Year at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #3)

By: Enid Blyton

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The girls return for another term to find several new faces in their form. There is Zerelda, the Am… read more

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9. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more

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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

10. Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

By: Chloe Hooper

3.17

Format: None pages,

In 2004 on Palm Island,an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year… read more

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11. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Prophet and the Idiot

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.65

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. 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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  • womens
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15. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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16. 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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  • contemporary
  • australia
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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17. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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18. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

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  • contemporary
  • australia
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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19. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • womens
  • australia
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20. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Black is the New White

By: Nakkiah Lui

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The smash-hit play, in print for the first time with a foreword and notes from multitalented playwr… read more

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  • humor
  • indigenous
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • womens
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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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Hannah Kent

2.62

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Enid Blyton

3.59

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4.21

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

Chanel Contos

4.56

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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Clementine Ford

4.13

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