20 Top nonfiction books like Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver

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Life and Death Decisions

By: Lachlan McIver

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan Mc…

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1. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

By: Damien Brown

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line,… read more

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2. Walking Free

By: Patrick Weaver , Munjed Al Muderis

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Militar… read more

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3. 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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  • audiobook
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4. Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows sma… read more

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5. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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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6. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Immaculate

By: Anna McGahan

4.07

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the prestigious The Australian /Vogel's Literary Award. 'Tragic and moving.' HSU-MING … read more

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8. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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10. Unbreakable

By: Jelena Dokic

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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12. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare

By: Ben Bravery

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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14. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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16. Sister Viv

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.65

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Registrar

By: Neela Janakiramanan

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • audiobook
  • health
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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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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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

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  • audiobook
"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

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21. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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22. The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

By: Dan Pronk

4.05

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a fr… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Scrubbed

By: Nikki Stamp

3.98

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki S… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience

By: Peter Goldsworthy

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My first stray cancer is a gift. I’m lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-write… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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25. Book of Life

By: Deborah Conway

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most icon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Albatross

By: Nina Wan

3.48

Format: None pages, ebook

'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhe… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Life and Death Decisions

By: Lachlan McIver

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan Mc… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Cut

By: Susan White

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Carla is a young doctor striving to become the first female surgeon at a prestigious Melbourne hosp… read more

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30. Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

4.32

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical scho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans

By: Ameliah Scott

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

My journey to the skies and the people and animals of the Australian outback The inspiring stor… read more

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  • nonfiction

20 must-read audiobook books like Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

Chris Hammer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Richard Shepherd

4.33

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12 must-read nonfiction books like The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans by Ameliah Scott

Transform Your Habits

Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

Leigh Sales

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Unbreakable

Jelena Dokic

4.16

Transform Your Habits

My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

Ash Barty

4.23

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