14 Top australia books like Troppo by Madelaine Dickie

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Troppo

By: Madelaine Dickie

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats. In Indonesia, Penny is drifting, partying, hanging…

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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By: William Finnegan

4.27

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more

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"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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2. The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

By: Jane Harper

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for t… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia

4. Breath

By: Tim Winton

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more

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5. Scar Tissue

By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more

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6. Hotel Kerobokan

By: Kathryn Bonella

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, the ironic nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison, a… read more

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7. Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

By: Andrew Thomson , None , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN… read more

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8. 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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9. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Adam Hochschild

4.18

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more

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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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10. If I Had Your Face

By: Frances Cha

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more

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  • fiction
" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

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11. 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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12. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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13. The Wife and the Widow

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more

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  • australia
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14. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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15. The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

4.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi… read more

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"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

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16. Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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  • fiction
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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18. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

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19. The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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20. The Other Side of Beautiful

By: Kim Lock

3.94

Format: 368 pages, ebook

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out nove… read more

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  • australia
"No matter how people fought it, or denied it, or outraged about it. Death happened. Birth happened. Life happened. It was a devastating, as transformative, and a simple as that."

-Kim Lock, The Other Side of Beautiful

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21. Before We Were Innocent

By: Ella Berman

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more

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22. Tell Me Lies

By: J.P. Pomare

3.75

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel. Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel. Marg… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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  • australia
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24. The Swell

By: Allie Reynolds

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangero… read more

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  • australia
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25. Berlin

By: Bea Setton

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more

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  • fiction
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26. Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more

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  • australia
"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."

-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road

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27. Sidelines

By: Karen Viggers

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemp… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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28. The Truth About Her

By: Jacqueline Maley

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing,… read more

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  • australia
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29. The Last Guests

By: J.P. Pomare

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling new novel for fans of Megan Miranda, a wife finds herself racing for answers when… read more

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  • australia
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30. Troppo

By: Madelaine Dickie

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats. In Indonesia, Penny is drifting, partying, hanging… read more

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31. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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  • fiction

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