20 best-selling nonfiction books like En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young

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En Garde

By: Sarah Hanson-Young

4.20

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

In the era of wolf-whistle politics, women are sick of being degraded. When Sarah Hanson-Young cal…

"The confected fight over freedom of speech has become a lazy, yet deliberate, excuse for ‘freedom to abuse’ without rhyme, reason or consequence."

-Sarah Hanson-Young, En Garde

"The confected fight over freedom of speech has become a lazy, yet deliberate, excuse for ‘freedom to abuse’ without rhyme, reason or consequence."

-Sarah Hanson-Young, En Garde

If you liked the nonfiction plot in En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. On Doubt

By: Leigh Sales

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtfu… read more

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2. 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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  • audiobook
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3. 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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  • 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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4. 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

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  • 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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5. 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 Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • feminism
  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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7. 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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  • 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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8. The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

By: Emma

4.07

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple l… read more

Similar categories in Emma's The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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9. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Ferguson's Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

Similar categories in Indira Naidoo's The Space Between the Stars book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

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  • audiobook
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12. 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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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • 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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14. 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 Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • 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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15. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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16. Sisterhood

By: Cathy Kelly

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

As the waves crash on to a wild Atlantic beach, Lou is at a crossroads. For the first time ever, ju… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

By: Johann Hari

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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19. 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

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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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21. The Diamond Hunter

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.15

Format: 432 pages, ebook

‘It won’t matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.’ When six-year-o… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Love & Pain : The Epic Times and Crooked Lines of Life Inside and Outside Silverchair

By: Ben Gillies

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The powerful, untold story of two of the three members of iconic Australian band Silverchair. It… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. The School: The ups and downs of one year in the classroom

By: Brendan James Murray

4.49

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

One teacher. One school. One year. Brendan James Murray has been a high school teacher for more … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Australia Day

By: Stan Grant

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."

-Stan Grant, Australia Day

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26. En Garde

By: Sarah Hanson-Young

4.20

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

In the era of wolf-whistle politics, women are sick of being degraded. When Sarah Hanson-Young cal… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"The confected fight over freedom of speech has become a lazy, yet deliberate, excuse for ‘freedom to abuse’ without rhyme, reason or consequence."

-Sarah Hanson-Young, En Garde

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27. The Land Before Avocado

By: Richard Glover

3.91

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more

Similar categories in Richard Glover's The Land Before Avocado book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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28. On Rape

By: Germaine Greer

3.56

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Sexual assault does not diminish; relations between the sexes do not improve. There has to be a be… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Just as it is not the penis that commits rape, and not testosterone that drives it and not overwhelming sexual desire either, castration whether surgical or chemical will not eliminate men's hatred o…"

-Germaine Greer, On Rape

"If a man punches you in the eye, you are not expected to have pleaded with him not to for the crime to be accepted as assault. If you are sitting at your cash register and someone demands the cash in…"

-Germaine Greer, On Rape

"In 'The Female Fear: The Social Cost of Rape', Margaret T Gordon and Stephanie Riger say that fully one-third of the women in their study reported worrying about rape once a month or more. Others sai…"

-Germaine Greer, On Rape

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29. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For

By: Jonathan Raymond

4.06

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

"Required reading for anyone who wants to do more than merely manage people. Good Authority is a mo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Raymond's Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. On Violence

By: Natasha Stott Despoja

4.38

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it? Every two minutes, police are call… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Stott Despoja's On Violence book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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31. On Disruption

By: Katharine Murphy

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

There is no way to know if the disruption will settle into a new normal, or whether chaos is the ne… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Murphy's On Disruption book and Sarah Hanson-Young's En Garde

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays

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Anna Funder

4.13

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4.06

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3.98

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Amy C. Edmondson

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