26 Best contemporary books like The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey

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The Eulogy

By: Jackie Bailey

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Eulogy is a literary page-turner from new Australian voice Jackie Bailey – a story about family…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey , here is a list of 26 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 Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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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  • fiction
"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

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

4. 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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5. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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6. 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 Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland

10. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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11. The Work Wives

By: Rachael Johns

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

How well do you really know the people you work with? For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Work Wives book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

Similar categories in Holly Throsby's Clarke book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

Cover of Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

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 Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
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16. 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

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Money Club

By: Fiona Lowe

3.94

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A gripping exploration of modern greed as bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe unpicks the mora… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Money Club book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison by Meredith Jaffe

18. 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

Similar categories in Meredith Jaffe's The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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Cover of Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance by Kate Solly

20. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

Similar categories in Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

Cover of Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan

21. Dinner with the Schnabels

By: Toni Jordan

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Dinner with the Schnabels book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) by Dinuka McKenzie

22. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. 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

Similar categories in Nadine J. Cohen's Everyone and Everything book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens

24. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of I’ll Leave You With This by Kylie Ladd

25. I’ll Leave You With This

By: Kylie Ladd

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I’ll Leave You With This is a heartbreaking, funny, thought-provoking and honest novel about a brot… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Ladd's I’ll Leave You With This book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Heart Is a Star

By: Megan Rogers

3.64

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rogers's The Heart Is a Star book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Sidelines by Karen Viggers

27. 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 Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Prettier If She Smiled More by Toni Jordan

28. Prettier If She Smiled More

By: Toni Jordan

3.63

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

'A contemporary comic masterpiece. Practically every page boasts lines redolent of humour, wit and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Prettier If She Smiled More book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Eulogy by Jackie  Bailey

29. The Eulogy

By: Jackie Bailey

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Eulogy is a literary page-turner from new Australian voice Jackie Bailey – a story about family… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Every Last Suspect by Nicola Moriarty

30. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
Cover of Wildflowers by Peggy Frew

31. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Frew's Wildflowers book and Jackie Bailey's The Eulogy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

29 must-read fiction books like The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

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All That's Left Unsaid

Tracey Lien

3.97

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17 must-read fiction books like Sidelines by Karen Viggers

Transform Your Habits

All the Words We Know

Bruce Nash

3.58

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What Happened to Nina?

Dervla McTiernan

4.11

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The Accident

Fiona Lowe

3.86

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The Chocolate Factory

Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

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