18 best-selling nonfiction books like Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel

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Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia

By: Om Dhungel

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained ever…

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1. Never Far From Nowhere

By: Andrea Levy

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, … read more

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2. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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3. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By: Loung Ung

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more

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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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4. 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

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5. 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

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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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7. 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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8. The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

By: Henry Oster

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor reveals the terrible realities of life in Aus… read more

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9. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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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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"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. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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12. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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13. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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14. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

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15. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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16. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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17. Echo Lake

By: Joan Sauers

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A compulsive debut thriller that will haunt you long after you've turned the final page. In the … read more

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18. Life's What You Make It

By: Siân O'Gorman

4.32

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Dreams can come true, you just have to believe... After 10 years in London, working in a stressf… read more

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19. Nothing Ventured (William Warwick, #1)

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand-new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New Yo… read more

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20. East of Alice

By: Annie Seaton

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A gem-fossicking discovery echoes through time and leads to a dangerous journey through the red dus… read more

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21. 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

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22. 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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"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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23. 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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24. The Crossing

By: Sophie Matterson

4.38

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km o… read more

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25. Over the Hill and Up the Wall

By: Todd Alexander

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A heart-warming journey with parents of a certain age and a son who thinks he knows best 'Warm,… read more

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26. 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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27. The House With All The Lights On

By: Jessica Kirkness

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what… read more

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28. Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France

By: Rachael Mogan McIntosh

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'b… read more

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29. Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia

By: Om Dhungel

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained ever… read more

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30. Retirement Made Simple

By: Noel Whittaker

4.30

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

The fastest growing demographic in Australia are retirees, with the number of people over 75 expect… read more

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31. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

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14 best-selling audiobook books like The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself by Nick Bryant

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Garry Disher

3.99

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