The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
By: Gideon Haigh
3.89
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year…
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1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
2. Munich
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more
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3. This House of Grief
By: Helen Garner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more
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- law
- nonfiction
- australia
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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- australia
5. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
6. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
7. 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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- history
- biography
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8. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
9. 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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"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
10. 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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- australia
11. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
12. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
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
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- nonfiction
- australia
14. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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15. All Our Shimmering Skies
By: Trent Dalton
3.95
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more
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"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
16. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.23
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more
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- nonfiction
"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
17. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.03
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more
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- australia
18. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
19. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)
By: Lech Blaine
4.17
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more
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- australia
20. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
By: Kevin Rudd
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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21. Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines
By: Nick McKenzie
4.58
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-… read more
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- australia
22. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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23. Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny
By: Troy Bramston
4.15
Format: 968 pages, Kindle Edition
This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him – the las… read more
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24. Anam
By: Andre Dao
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, ab… read more
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25. Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
By: Frank Bongiorno
4.23
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
A landmark book—the first full political history of Australia In this compelling and comprehensive… read more
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26. House of Kwa
By: Mimi Kwa
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and … read more
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"Nothing matters much. Much matters little. In the end nothing matters."-Mimi Kwa, House of Kwa
27. The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
By: Gideon Haigh
3.89
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year… read more
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- law
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- australia
28. The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (Quarterly Essay, #89)
By: Saul Griffith
4.12
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level The country is at a crossroads. In The Wire… read more
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- australia
29. Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future
By: Joëlle Gergis
4.40
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia?Australia is in p… read more
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30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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