5 best-selling history books like Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro

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Accidental Feminists

By: Jane Caro

3.94

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How one generation became feminists—by accident. Women over fifty-five are of the generation tha…

"To be a woman, no matter your background, is to have to fight for your territory in a way that men don’t have to."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"To be a woman, no matter your background, is to have to fight for your territory in a way that men don’t have to."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"Feminism, in essence, is itself a giant female support group, where women (mostly) offer each other support and encouragement—literally, pass on courage to one another."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"Feminism, in essence, is itself a giant female support group, where women (mostly) offer each other support and encouragement—literally, pass on courage to one another."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

If you liked the history plot in Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Fight Like a Girl

By: Clementine Ford

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

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2. The Wife Drought

By: Annabel Crabb

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a jo… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
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3. Flesh Wounds

By: Richard Glover

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. 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
  • audiobook
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5. 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
  • audiobook
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6. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

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  • womens
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

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7. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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8. Bruny

By: Heather Rose

3.86

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Midd… read more

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  • politics
  • australia
  • audiobook
"This was what happened to Tasmanian children. A lot of us left the island in search of bigger dreams. And then, sometimes, we came back."

-Heather Rose, Bruny

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9. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

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  • womens
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. 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
  • womens
  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • 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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13. Kill Your Husbands

By: Jack Heath

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more

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  • audiobook
"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."

-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands

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14. The Unbelieved

By: Vikki Petraitis

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pi… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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  • australia
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison

By: Meredith Jaffe

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge

By: Bri Lee

3.65

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
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22. The Family Doctor

By: Debra Oswald

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Paula is a dedicated suburban GP, who is devastated by the murder of a friend and her children by t… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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23. Consolation (Hirsch, #3)

By: Garry Disher

4.16

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is steal… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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25. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. The Wartime Book Club

By: Kate Thompson

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey … read more

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  • womens
  • audiobook
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27. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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28. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • audiobook
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29. A Woman of Courage

By: Tania Blanchard

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard,… read more

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  • womens
  • audiobook
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30. Accidental Feminists

By: Jane Caro

3.94

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How one generation became feminists—by accident. Women over fifty-five are of the generation tha… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • political science
  • audiobook
"To be a woman, no matter your background, is to have to fight for your territory in a way that men don’t have to."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"Feminism, in essence, is itself a giant female support group, where women (mostly) offer each other support and encouragement—literally, pass on courage to one another."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"When I was young, when the women of my generation were in their formative years, we were not taken seriously. Nor, just as damagingly, were our mothers, or our grandmothers."

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

"Whenever people nominate the world’s most important inventions (the internal combustion engine, the world wide web, battery storage), I always suggest the pill and the tampon"

-Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists

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31. Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

By: Julie Goodwin

4.57

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In m… read more

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Annabel Crabb

4.31

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Amanda Lohrey

3.85

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Shankari Chandran

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4.07

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4.31

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