9 Best memoir books like Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong by Bradley Trevor Greive

Cover of Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong by Bradley Trevor Greive

Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong

By: Bradley Trevor Greive

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

The follow-up to the ABIA award-winning, international bestselling sensation Penguin Bloom The h…

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Cover of Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom, Bradley Trevor Greive

1. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Storm Boy

By: Colin Thiele , Robert Ingpen

4.33

Format: None pages,

Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into … read more

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  • animals
Cover of Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt

3. Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt

By: Turia Pitt

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everything to Live Foris the story of one young woman's survival against extraordinary odds, a test… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

4. The Women In Black

By: Madeleine St. John

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sydney in the late 1950s. On the second floor of the famous F.G. Goode department store, in Ladies'… read more

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5. Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

By: Sheila Kohler

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

ONE OF PEOPLEMAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS "Asearing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." --T… read more

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6. Romulus, My Father

By: Raimond Gaita

1.00

Format: None pages,

Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia … read more

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7. 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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  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • 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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9. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

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10. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
"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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11. 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
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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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12. Best Wishes

By: Richard Glover

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time. Do you hate gambling ads, pre-r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

Cover of The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness by Hugh van Cuylenburg

14. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland

15. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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16. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • animals
  • audiobook
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17. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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18. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison

By: Meredith Jaffe

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in… read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Weekend by Charlotte  Wood

19. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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20. 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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  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina  May

21. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

By: Karina May

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback

What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch

22. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

Cover of The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta

23. The Place on Dalhousie

By: Melina Marchetta

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'You look the type to break your father’s heart.' 'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’ When Rosie G… read more

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  • audiobook
"Guilt is a burden, so forgive yourself for the mistakes."

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"My favourite photos of my mum and dad are those from before I was born. Because they were so into each other and I can see this love in her eyes that says, I trust this guy to fucking bits."

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"Working with them was tough at first, because the Mackees were dealing with their own shit, and most times it was Jimmy who did the talking. Mackee’s dad later wrote to say that Jimmy had filled in t…"

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"Jimmy’s wedding day is literally the best day of his life. He hasn’t had many of those, so he’s able to differentiate. After the barbecue is lit, he holds Rosie’s hand and they watch it all in silenc…"

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

Cover of Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef

24. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy

By: Shaun Micallef

3.80

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Every Last Suspect by Nicola Moriarty

25. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong by Bradley Trevor Greive

26. Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong

By: Bradley Trevor Greive

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

The follow-up to the ABIA award-winning, international bestselling sensation Penguin Bloom The h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay

27. The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening

By: Hugh Mackay

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans by Ameliah Scott

28. The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans

By: Ameliah Scott

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

My journey to the skies and the people and animals of the Australian outback The inspiring stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Echoes by Evie Wyld

29. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8) by Steve Cavanagh

30. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessab… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Schools of Fish by Alan Sampson

31. Schools of Fish

By: Alan Sampson

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the beginning of Schools of Fish, Alan Sampson is very much a man bent on success. As a very str… read more

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  • biography

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3.85

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4.17

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