5 Best biography books like One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

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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…

If you liked the biography plot in One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Gulf

By: Anna Spargo-Ryan

4.21

Format: 324 pages, ebook

"He found an egg at the park so he incubated it and this tortoise hatched out." Skye's sixteen, and… read more

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  • australia

2. The Bush

By: Don Watson

3.04

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australia… read more

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3. Work Strife Balance

By: Mia Freedman

4.03

Format: None pages, ebook

"Whenever women are honest about their struggles, they give other women a gift. Mia delivers." Eliz… read more

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4. 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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  • book club
  • australia
  • 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

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  • australia
  • book club
  • family
  • audiobook
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6. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • book club
  • 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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10. 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
  • family
  • audiobook
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11. Plum

By: Brendan Cowell

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The wildly impressive, raucously funny and deeply moving second novel from award-winning writer, ac… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. 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
  • australia
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13. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • mental health
"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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15. 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

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  • book club
  • 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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16. 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
  • audiobook
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17. The Winter Dress

By: Lauren Chater

3.89

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. A captivating novel bas… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • book club
  • 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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20. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • 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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21. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie  Wood

22. Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

By: Stephanie Wood

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
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23. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

By: Richard Flanagan

3.71

Format: 240 pages, ebook

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
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25. Suddenly Single at Sixty

By: Jo Peck

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An uplifting, witty and hilarious memoir about the road from the shock and despair of a sudden marr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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27. The Girl on the Page

By: John Purcell

3.62

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Two women, two great betrayals, one path to redemption. A punchy, powerful and page-turning novel a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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28. The Creeper

By: Margaret Hickey

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Victim ... or killer?For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high c… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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29. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s by Bridie Jabour

30. Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s

By: Bridie Jabour

3.31

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miser… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

11 must-read book club books like One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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

Chanel Contos

4.56

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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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