26 best-selling nonfiction books like Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks

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Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia

By: Russell Marks

4.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen t…

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1. Fight Like a Girl

By: Clementine Ford

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

2. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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3. Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

By: Chloe Hooper

3.17

Format: None pages,

In 2004 on Palm Island,an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year… read more

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4. Men and Women Talking (Singles Classic)

By: Gloria Steinem

4.09

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Once upon a time (just a few years ago), psychologists believed that the way we chose to communicat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. 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
  • nonfiction
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6. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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7. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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8. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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9. 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

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  • australia
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10. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

By: Helena Merriman

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. 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

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  • nonfiction
"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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13. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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  • australia
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16. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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17. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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18. How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women

By: Jennifer Robinson

4.34

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break op… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
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19. Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

By: Richard Flanagan

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting it… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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20. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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21. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

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  • australia
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23. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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24. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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25. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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26. The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

By: Nell Frizzell

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. My Body Keeps Your Secrets

By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It occurred to me that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia

By: Russell Marks

4.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • law
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29. Love & Autism

By: Kay Kerr

4.29

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

4.49

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.'Lucia Osborne-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Australia's China Odyssey: From Euphoria To Fear

By: James Curran

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Australia’s China Odyssey is the story of the complex and crucial relationship between Australia an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Vincent Bevins

4.61

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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Helena Merriman

4.51

Transform Your Habits

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

Niki Savva

4.21

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Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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