23 Top australia books like She Is Haunted by Paige Clark

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She Is Haunted

By: Paige Clark

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A mother cuts her daughter's hair because her own hair starts falling out. A woman leaves her boyfr…

"I haunt not so she can see me, but so I can see her."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

"I haunt not so she can see me, but so I can see her."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

"It is easier to change the topic than to change the mind. Tell someone you do not speak to your mother and they always say you should instead of why."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

"It is easier to change the topic than to change the mind. Tell someone you do not speak to your mother and they always say you should instead of why."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

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1. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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  • adult
  • contemporary
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2. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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3. 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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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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5. Bedtime Story

By: Chloe Hooper

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
"Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again."

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"You know that grief cannot be avoided. And that when it finds a person, they might look the same but they're changed: their missing person has altered the atmosphere in the house, the classroom, the …"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failur…"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

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6. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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7. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. New Animal

By: Ella Baxter

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

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9. Time of My Life

By: Myf Warhurst

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

From the much-loved Myf Warhurst comes a captivating and joyous memoir of wisdom, humour and heart … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Dropbear

By: Evelyn Araluen

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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15. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986

By: Helen Garner

4.16

Format: 1 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled w… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"The beginner will cling and cling to her thin first draft. She clings to the coast and will strike out into the ocean only under extreme duress"

-Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986

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16. 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

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  • 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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17. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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19. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Wild Abandon

By: Emily Bitto

3.32

Format: 449 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In spring of 2011, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Tierra fresca de su tumba

By: Giovanna Rivero

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"

-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba

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22. She Is Haunted

By: Paige Clark

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A mother cuts her daughter's hair because her own hair starts falling out. A woman leaves her boyfr… read more

Similar categories in Paige Clark's She Is Haunted book and Paige Clark's She Is Haunted

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I haunt not so she can see me, but so I can see her."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

"It is easier to change the topic than to change the mind. Tell someone you do not speak to your mother and they always say you should instead of why."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

"If my mother had called and asked, "What have I done that you can't forget?" I would have said, "I can forgive anything." But she never called and that is what I can never forget."

-Paige Clark, She Is Haunted

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23. Permafrost

By: S.J. Norman

3.88

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • australia
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24. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. But the Girl

By: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Found, Wanting

By: Natasha Sholl

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Shol… read more

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  • audiobook
"We need to re-meet it – the grief – at every stage. As life moves, we need to introduce ourselves again to our traumas, to work out how the empty spaces, the losses, fit in. It’s like rearranging the…"

-Natasha Sholl, Found, Wanting

"«THE GOOD THING ABOUT something awful happening is that you come out the other end having experienced growth. You become a better person. You become stronger. You become more accomplished. Unless you…"

-Natasha Sholl, Found, Wanting

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27. Sadvertising

By: Ennis Ćehić

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald

28. Everything Feels Like the End of the World

By: Else Fitzgerald

3.72

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • australia
  • short story collection
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29. Raised by Wolves

By: Jess Ho

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunct… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The One Thing We've Never Spoken About by Elfy Scott

30. The One Thing We've Never Spoken About

By: Elfy Scott

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

An investigation into the failings of Australia’s mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal … read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Hold Your Fire

By: Chloe Wilson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • australia

21 must-read fiction books like She Is Haunted by Paige Clark

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Love & Virtue

Diana Reid

3.91

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21 best-selling fiction books like New Animal by Ella Baxter

Transform Your Habits

Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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