8 must-read nonfiction books like Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar

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Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

By: Maggie MacKellar

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

1. 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 Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

2. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nature
  • 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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5. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
Cover of Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird

7. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

Similar categories in Julia Baird's Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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8. The Swift Dark Tide

By: Katia Ariel

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with anoth… read more

Similar categories in Katia Ariel's The Swift Dark Tide book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
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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 Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Conversion book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Sanctuary book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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13. 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

Similar categories in Gabbie Stroud's The Things That Matter Most book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mildenhall's The Hummingbird Effect book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. The House That Joy Built

By: Holly Ringland

3.88

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The House That Joy Built book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. The Anniversary

By: Stephanie Bishop

3.10

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascen… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Bishop's The Anniversary book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • audiobook
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19. 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 Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • audiobook
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20. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Brabon's Body Friend book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Feast

By: Emily O'Grady

3.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yello… read more

Similar categories in Emily O'Grady's Feast book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • audiobook
Cover of Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M. Saleh

22. Songs for the Dead and the Living

By: Sara M. Saleh

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Ja… read more

Similar categories in Sara M. Saleh's Songs for the Dead and the Living book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • audiobook
Cover of Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe

23. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

By: Bruce Pascoe

4.20

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Pascoe's Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Sidelines

By: Karen Viggers

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemp… read more

Similar categories in Karen Viggers's Sidelines book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
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25. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Henry's Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar

26. Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

By: Maggie MacKellar

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head… read more

Similar categories in Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Hospital by Sanya Rushdi

27. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

Similar categories in Sanya Rushdi's Hospital book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
Cover of To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon

28. To Sing of War

By: Catherine McKinnon

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more

Similar categories in Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • audiobook
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29. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Tu's The Honeyeater book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston

30. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

Similar categories in Ariane Beeston's Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink book and Maggie MacKellar's Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Robbie Arnott

4.25

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4.34

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

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Suzie Miller

4.37

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Melissa Lucashenko

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