10 Top nonfiction books like The House With All The Lights On by Jessica Kirkness

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The House With All The Lights On

By: Jessica Kirkness

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what…

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

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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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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"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. 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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6. 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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"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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7. 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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8. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

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"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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9. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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10. 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
  • disability
"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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11. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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12. 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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13. The Coffin Confessor

By: William Edgar

4.13

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you’ve never had the courage to tell your friends an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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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
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15. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

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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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17. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Love Language: A memoir of family, music and pasta

By: Linda Marigliano

4.01

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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20. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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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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22. The Visitors

By: Jane Harrison

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more

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23. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. The Secrets of the Huon Wren

By: Claire van Ryn

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more

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25. Beatrix & Fred

By: Emily Spurr

3.57

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Beatrix is a loner. She has a love-hate relationship with her one friend, Ray, a hate-hate relation… read more

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26. The House With All The Lights On

By: Jessica Kirkness

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • disability
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27. All the Beautiful Things You Love

By: Jonathan Seidler

3.63

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Elly and Enzo love each other.Elly and Enzo are breaking up.Now, everything must go.When Enzo sudde… read more

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28. I'll Let Myself In: Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels

By: Hannah Diviney

4.25

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
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29. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

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31. The Last Trace

By: Petronella McGovern

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six … read more

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