26 must-read audiobook books like The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir by John Cook

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The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir

By: John Cook

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story abou…

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1. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

By: Deborah Rodriguez

3.67

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more

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  • adult
"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

2. Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping Newsa… read more

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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

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  • historical
  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. The Long Flight Home

By: Alan Hlad

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Inspired by fascinating, true, yet … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Of wartime London: It looked as if London was being cremated, one piece at a time."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

" Be an egg , Susan thought. One could be soft with fear inside, but hard as slate outside."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Ollie watched the cemetery disappear in the distance and wondered if there would be enough trees in all of Britain to build the coffins."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

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5. 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

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  • historical
  • 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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6. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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7. The Champagne War

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.02

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

The heart-stopping new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Diamond Hunter . In the summer… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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12. 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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  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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13. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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18. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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  • australia
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20. 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

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  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Mr Einstein's Secretary

By: Matthew Reilly

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

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22. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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23. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Housemate

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Three housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder. Dubbed the Housemate Homic… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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25. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
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26. 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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  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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28. Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

By: Sophie Green

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly-divorced Cynthia has returned to her hometown from Los Angeles to reconnec… read more

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29. The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir

By: John Cook

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story abou… read more

Similar categories in John Cook's The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir book and John Cook's The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • adult
  • audiobook

30. The Labrynth

By: Amanda Lohry

3.70

Format: None pages, None

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31. Elizabeth & Elizabeth

By: Sue Williams

3.82

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • australia
  • audiobook

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Deborah Rodriguez

3.67

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4.21

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4.20

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3.57

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Tricia Stringer

3.95

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