18 Best nonfiction books like The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant

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The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • race
  • australia
Cover of Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos

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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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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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  • australia
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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

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

5. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 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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  • australia
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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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  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All by Hannah Ferguson

8. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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9. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird

10. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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11. 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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12. 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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  • australia
Cover of Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr

13. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

Similar categories in David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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15. 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 Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • nonfiction
"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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16. Murder Town

By: Shelley Burr

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more

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  • australia
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17. 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
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18. 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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  • australia
"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

Cover of I Don't: The Case Against Marriage by Clementine Ford

19. 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

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's I Don't: The Case Against Marriage book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard

20. 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 Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

21. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Watego's Another Day in the Colony book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • race
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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22. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

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  • australia
Cover of The Visitors by Jane Harrison

23. 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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  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas  Mayo

24. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mayo's The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • history
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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25. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines by Nick McKenzie

26. Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines

By: Nick McKenzie

4.58

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) by Alan Kohler

27. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

Similar categories in Alan Kohler's The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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28. The Most Important Job in the World

By: Gina Rushton

4.10

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

29. Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience

By: Veronica Gorrie

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant

30. The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more

Similar categories in Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead book and Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia

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Anna Funder

4.13

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David Marr

4.39

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I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

Clementine Ford

4.13

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Julia Gillard

4.28

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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