24 Top nonfiction books like On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis

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On Reckoning

By: Amy Remeikis

4.72

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

On Reckoning tells of the moment when the personal became very political, when rape became the nati…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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

1. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

2. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • australia
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3. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Down's Bodies of Light book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • australia
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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4. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

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

5. 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

Similar categories in Hannah Ferguson's Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
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6. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gadsby's Ten Steps to Nanette book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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7. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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8. The Mother

By: Jane Caro

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just somet… read more

Similar categories in Jane Caro's The Mother book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • australia
"There's no need to charm your mother, she thought. Which is both a compliment and a burden."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

"The pall bearers were holding Pete's coffin, waiting to walk down the aisle—just like bridesmaids. The music began and they started to move, trying to keep pace with David Bowie's 'Changes'."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

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9. 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

Similar categories in Evelyn Araluen's Dropbear book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • australia
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of How We Love: Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford

10. How We Love: Notes on a Life

By: Clementine Ford

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's How We Love: Notes on a Life book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
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11. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

Similar categories in Larissa Behrendt's After Story book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • australia
Cover of QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham

12. QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults

By: Van Badham

4.16

Format: 471 pages, Paperback

In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, u… read more

Similar categories in Van Badham's QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva

13. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

Similar categories in Niki Savva's Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame

14. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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15. 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

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
"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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16. 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

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

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

17. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

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

18. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • womens
Cover of The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar

19. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

Similar categories in Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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20. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
"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

Cover of Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach

21. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

Similar categories in Archie Roach's Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Love and Other Puzzles by Kimberley Allsopp

22. Love and Other Puzzles

By: Kimberley Allsopp

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an… read more

Similar categories in Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • australia
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23. You Made Me This Way

By: Shannon Molloy

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Molloy's You Made Me This Way book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
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24. 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

Similar categories in Clare Bowditch's Your Own Kind of Girl book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
"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

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25. 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 Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean           Kelly

26. The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison

By: Sean Kelly

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morri… read more

Similar categories in Sean Kelly's The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (Quarterly Essay #84) by Jess  Hill

27. The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (Quarterly Essay #84)

By: Jess Hill

4.54

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

Tracing the impact of Australia's #MeToo moment This year, Australia's #MeToo moment erupted in the… read more

Similar categories in Jess Hill's The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (Quarterly Essay #84) book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • essays
  • womens
Cover of See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess  Hill

28. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

Similar categories in Jess Hill's See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

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

Similar categories in Veronica Gorrie's Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis

30. On Reckoning

By: Amy Remeikis

4.72

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

On Reckoning tells of the moment when the personal became very political, when rape became the nati… read more

Similar categories in Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • womens
Cover of Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85) by Sarah Krasnostein

31. Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)

By: Sarah Krasnostein

4.16

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Krasnostein's Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85) book and Amy Remeikis's On Reckoning

  • politics
  • australia
  • nonfiction
  • essays

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4.13

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4.29

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4.13

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Shankari Chandran

4.21

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