14 best-selling biography books like Stronger by Dinesh Palipana

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Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

4.32

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical scho…

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1. A Mother's Story

By: Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At the start of 2014, Rosie Batty was an ordinary single mum doing everything in her power to give … read more

Similar categories in Bryce Corbett's A Mother's Story book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • 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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3. 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

Similar categories in Gabbie Stroud's The Things That Matter Most book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • audiobook
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4. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

Similar categories in Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook
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5. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

Similar categories in Ash Barty's My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

Similar categories in Indira Naidoo's The Space Between the Stars book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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8. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • audiobook
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9. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • audiobook
Cover of The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame

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

Similar categories in Grace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook
"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 Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Moore-Gilbert's The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery

12. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare

By: Ben Bravery

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more

Similar categories in Ben Bravery's The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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13. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Julia Gillard's Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • 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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16. Scrubbed

By: Nikki Stamp

3.98

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki S… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Stamp's Scrubbed book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • audiobook
Cover of Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings by Dylan Alcott

18. Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings

By: Dylan Alcott

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The astonishing life of Australia's most inspirational athlete Not long after he was born in 1990, … read more

Similar categories in Dylan Alcott's Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Stronger by Dinesh Palipana

19. Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

4.32

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical scho… read more

Similar categories in Dinesh Palipana's Stronger book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Back, After the Break by Osher Günsberg

20. Back, After the Break

By: Osher Günsberg

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, opens up in a powerful, dark, funny and … read more

Similar categories in Osher Günsberg's Back, After the Break book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure by Sue      Williams

21. Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure

By: Sue Williams

4.44

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australi… read more

Similar categories in Sue Williams's Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure book and Dinesh Palipana's Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • biography

18 must-read audiobook books like Stronger by Dinesh Palipana

Transform Your Habits

A Mother's Story

Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Things That Matter Most

Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Emma Carey

4.38

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16 best-selling nonfiction books like The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Emma Carey

4.38

Transform Your Habits

My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

Ash Barty

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

Grace Tame

3.98

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