5 best-selling science books like Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon

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Astronomy: Sky Country

By: Karlie Noon

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges seri…

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1. Rabbit-Proof Fence

By: Doris Pilkington , Nugi Garimara

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to ret… read more

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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
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4. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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  • australia
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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5. 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
  • indigenous
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6. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

By: Peter Wohlleben

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

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7. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

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  • australia
  • indigenous
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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8. 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
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9. The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more

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  • australia
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10. 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
  • history
  • australia
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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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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia

By: Victor Steffensen

4.47

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country i… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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13. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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14. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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15. Happy Endings

By: Bella Green

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Bella Green is a Sunday-afternoon sex worker. Divorced dads, IT nerds, international students - she… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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16. 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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17. The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars

By: Duane Hamacher

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

(from publishers’s website) The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge… read more

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  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • astronomy
  • space
  • science
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18. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

By: Bruce Pascoe

4.20

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

By: Jack Charles

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
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20. 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
  • indigenous
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21. The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life

By: Paul Callaghan

4.16

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path ensures our life journey is one of fulfilment.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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22. Astronomy: Sky Country

By: Karlie Noon

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges seri… read more

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  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • astronomy
  • space
  • science
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23. Song of the Crocodile

By: Nardi Simpson

4.08

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, … read more

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  • australia
  • indigenous
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24. Design: Building on Country

By: Alison Page

4.37

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practice… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bill Gammage

25. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming

By: Bill Gammage

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges ser… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
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26. Songlines: the Power and Promise

By: Margo Neale

4.35

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Songlines: The Power and Promise has a blend of Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices. It offers wha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
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27. Plants: Past, Present and Future

By: Zena Cumpston

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges ser… read more

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  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • science
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28. We Come With This Place

By: Debra Dank

4.27

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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29. Dirt Poor Islanders

By: Winnie Dunn

3.96

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

Dirt Poor Islanders is a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navi… read more

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  • australia
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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. First Knowledges Law: The Way of the Ancestors

By: Marcia Langton

4.26

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to bel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous

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4.13

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4.28

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4.21

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4.41

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4.07

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