23 must-read australia books like The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden

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The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

By: Kate Holden

4.15

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

On a country road in Croppa Creek, farmer Ian Turnbull faced environmental officer Glen Turner. Wha…

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1. Song of the Sun God

By: Shankari Chandran

4.36

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Sri Lanka's indepen… read more

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  • audiobook

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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • audiobook
"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

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5. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • crime
  • 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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  • 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. Warranilla (A Nick Vada Thriller #1)

By: Jason Summers

3.72

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

February 1992. Billie Vada is murdered in cold blood, while her children sleep. Present day, Detect… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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11. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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12. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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13. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • nature
  • australia
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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14. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

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  • australia
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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18. 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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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1)

By: Margaret Hickey

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterio… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Love Objects

By: Emily Maguire

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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22. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

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  • audiobook
"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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23. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. The Widow of Walcha

By: Emma Partridge

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Others

By: Mark Brandi

3.72

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

On his eleventh birthday, Jacob's father gives him a diary. To write about things that happen. Abou… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
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27. 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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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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28. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • 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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29. Willowman

By: Inga Simpson

4.06

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Cricket has a willow heart. Batmakers around the world have tried everything, crafting bats from bi… read more

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  • australia
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30. The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

By: Kate Holden

4.15

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

On a country road in Croppa Creek, farmer Ian Turnbull faced environmental officer Glen Turner. Wha… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • nature
  • audiobook

25 Top audiobook books like The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden

Transform Your Habits

Song of the Sun God

Shankari Chandran

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

Chris Hammer

4.07

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20 Top fiction books like The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis

Transform Your Habits

The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

Chris Hammer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Hammer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

Margaret Hickey

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)

Dinuka McKenzie

4.00

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