21 must-read australia books like The Boys' Club by Michael Warner

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The Boys' Club

By: Michael Warner

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of AFL, Australia's bigg…

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Cover of This House of Grief by Helen Garner

1. This House of Grief

By: Helen Garner

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia

2. Inside: The autobiography

By: None

2.92

Format: None pages,

Few people know Australian Rules football better than Chris Judd. He's one of the game's out-and-ou… read more

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3. Breath

By: Tim Winton

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more

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4. 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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Cover of Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva

5. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts

6. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

By: Eddie Betts

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • australia
Cover of The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler

7. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
Cover of All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

8. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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  • australia
"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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9. 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
  • australia
"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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10. 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
Cover of Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee

11. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93) by Lech Blaine

12. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)

By: Lech Blaine

4.17

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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13. 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
  • australia
"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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14. 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
Cover of Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach

15. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
Cover of Joel Selwood: All In by Joel Selwood

16. Joel Selwood: All In

By: Joel Selwood

4.15

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

In his long-awaited, official autobiography, All In, Joel Selwood reveals the grit, determination, … read more

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17. The Great Undoing

By: Sharlene Allsopp

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all… read more

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  • australia
Cover of The Boys' Club by Michael  Warner

18. The Boys' Club

By: Michael Warner

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of AFL, Australia's bigg… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • sports
Cover of One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick  Morton

19. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Leather Soul: A Half-Back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues by Bob  Murphy

20. Leather Soul: A Half-Back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues

By: Bob Murphy

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"The Footscray winters and the glorious liniment-scented afternoons. All of the laughs, the scraps,… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Cheat: The Not-So Subtle Art of Conning Your Way to Sporting Glory by Titus O'Reily

21. Cheat: The Not-So Subtle Art of Conning Your Way to Sporting Glory

By: Titus O'Reily

3.99

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Mastering the not-so-subtle art of cheating in sport.Where there’s sport, there’s cheating. No spor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of 28 by Brandon   Jack

22. 28

By: Brandon Jack

4.02

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi'… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Hell Ship by Michael Veitch

23. Hell Ship

By: Michael Veitch

4.11

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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24. Cooper Not Out

By: Justin Smith

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A delightfully uplifting Australian novel about the joy of discovering your greatest potential. … read more

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  • australia
Cover of Nowhere to Hide: A memoir of football, mental health and resilience by Tom Boyd

25. Nowhere to Hide: A memoir of football, mental health and resilience

By: Tom Boyd

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A revealing and candid account of former AFL footballer Tom Boyd's struggle with mental health. … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray

26. The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia

By: Cameron K. Murray

4.30

Format: 324 pages, ebook

The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot by Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

27. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Our Exceptional Friend by Emma Shortis

28. Our Exceptional Friend

By: Emma Shortis

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In  Our Exceptional Friend , Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morali… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Football Solution: How Richmond’s premiership can save Australia by George Megalogenis

29. The Football Solution: How Richmond’s premiership can save Australia

By: George Megalogenis

4.02

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

A sport unlike any other in the world, football has always been Australia’s bellwether. But at a ti… read more

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  • politics
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson

30. High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95

By: Don Watson

4.00

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the ma… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Power of Balance

By: Kerryn Phelps

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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4.17

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4.11

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