6 Best nonfiction books like Lapsed by Monica Dux

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Lapsed

By: Monica Dux

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Losing your religion is harder than it looks ...From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jes…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lapsed by Monica Dux , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Cloudstreet

By: Tim Winton

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more

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2. Good Muslim Boy

By: Osamah Sami

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terri… read more

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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
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Monica Dux's Lapsed

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Monica Dux's Lapsed

  • religion
  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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7. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

By: Jessie Tu

3.19

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more

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  • australia
  • 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. 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
  • audiobook
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12. How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995–1998

By: Helen Garner

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner’s third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage t… read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995–1998 book and Monica Dux's Lapsed

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. We Were Not Men

By: Campbell Mattinson

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A novel that punches you in the the powerful, unbearably moving and ultimately uplifting story of t… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • 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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15. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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

17. 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 Monica Dux's Lapsed

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. Lapsed

By: Monica Dux

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Losing your religion is harder than it looks ...From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jes… read more

Similar categories in Monica Dux's Lapsed book and Monica Dux's Lapsed

  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. The Magpie Wing

By: Max Easton

3.58

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney’s weste… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. The Crying Room

By: Gretchen Shirm

3.53

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express t… read more

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