27 best-selling nonfiction books like Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard

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Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

By: Julia Gillard

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard , here is a list of 27 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

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's Fight Like a Girl book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • 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

2. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Contos's Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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10. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • australia
  • audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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11. How We Love: Notes on a Life

By: Clementine Ford

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's How We Love: Notes on a Life book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • self help
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12. The Space Between

By: Michelle Andrews

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Andrews's The Space Between book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • self help
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13. Investing with She’s on the Money: Build your future wealth

By: Victoria Devine

3.91

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Through the She’s on the Money podcast and online community, and her bestselling first book, millen… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Devine's Investing with She’s on the Money: Build your future wealth book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • self help
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • business
  • audiobook
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14. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • 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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16. Emotional Female

By: Yumiko Kadota

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more

Similar categories in Yumiko Kadota's Emotional Female book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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18. 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

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's I Don't: The Case Against Marriage book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women

By: Jennifer Robinson

4.34

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break op… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Robinson's How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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

Similar categories in Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • 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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22. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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23. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mayo's The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. 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

Similar categories in Stan Grant's Australia Day book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • 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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25. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

By: Anita Heiss

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning au… read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"We’ve never been alone, and we have each other. Not everyone gets everything, and we are so lucky for so much. I’m learning my place, my responsibilities."

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

"I love that I’ve been lucky enough to travel to every Australian city and work with some of the best, most forward-thinking individuals, and coach many to extraordinary feats. I love the friendships …"

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

"P.S. I truly love every square inch of Australia. I look forward to when we realise that this country is our giver of life and will survive long after we have passed on. Maybe, then, we will each cho…"

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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26. She's on the Money

By: Victoria Devine

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The ultimate millennial money guide, from the creator of Australia’s #1 finance podcast. Through… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Devine's She's on the Money book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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27. Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

By: Julia Gillard

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and… read more

Similar categories in Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

28. Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience

By: Veronica Gorrie

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Gorrie's Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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29. The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more

Similar categories in Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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30. Sex, Lies and Question Time

By: Kate Ellis

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Sex, Lies and Question Time, former MP Kate Ellis explores the good, the bad and the ugly of lif… read more

Similar categories in Kate Ellis's Sex, Lies and Question Time book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
  • audiobook
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31. The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female survivors of war and violence

By: Alice Achan

4.46

Format: 352 pages, kindle_edition

Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in north… read more

Similar categories in Alice Achan's The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female survivors of war and violence book and Julia Gillard's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

  • nonfiction

7 Best womens books like Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard

Transform Your Habits

Fight Like a Girl

Clementine Ford

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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