11 must-read memoir books like From There to Here by Joe Bennett

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From There to Here

By: Joe Bennett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From Willingdon to Lyttleton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty The first 30…

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1. The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more

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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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2. The Cellist of Sarajevo

By: Steven Galloway

4.00

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more

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"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"The choices she's made have left her without choice."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

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3. Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

By: Natasha Solomons

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity and through study and applica… read more

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4. Heaven (A Prison Diary, #3)

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Heaven,Jeffrey Archer's final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries, covers the period of his tra… read more

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5. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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6. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

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8. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

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9. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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10. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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11. Clean Kill (Dan Shepherd #20)

By: Stephen Leather

4.53

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their liv… read more

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12. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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13. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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14. 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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15. 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

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16. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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17. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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18. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier

By: Doug Gold

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A prisoner of war's daring escape from a speeding train . . . a Greek resistance heroine's fateful … read more

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20. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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21. 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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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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23. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter

By: Noelle McCarthy

4.13

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Other Son

By: Nick Alexander

4.15

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family … read more

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25. The Wish Child

By: Catherine Chidgey

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of po… read more

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26. The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond

By: Chris Long

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

**The number-one bestseller** The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand

By: Nic Low

4.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and moder… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. From There to Here

By: Joe Bennett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From Willingdon to Lyttleton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty The first 30… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. Laughing at the Dark

By: Barbara Else

4.30

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling and acclaimed author Barbara Else, Laughing at the Dark is a funny, moving me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. Know Your Place

By: Golriz Ghahraman

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?"

-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place

"We talked about holding the biggest corporate polluters to account and what that might look like in law. Would personhood of nature be enshrined in the same way that corporate personhood is?"

-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place

"I looked one of the legends on the bench in the eye and, with all the appropriate airs and graces, told him, I could answer his question but that its basis was a misrepresentation of my argument."

-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place

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31. From the Centre: A Writer's Life

By: Patricia Grace

4.41

Format: 304 pages, ebook

With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grand… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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