12 best-selling australia books like A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods by Margaret Cook

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A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods

By: Margaret Cook

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk o…

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Cover of The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1) by Val McDermid

1. The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1)

By: Val McDermid

3.68

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet inThe Distant E… read more

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2. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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  • australia

3. Raelia (The Medoran Chronicles, #2)

By: Lynette Noni

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices." Returning for a second year at Akarnae Academy… read more

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Akarnae

By: Lynette Noni

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes--literally. Dreading her fi… read more

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7. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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  • australia
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8. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

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  • australia
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9. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • australia
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10. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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11. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

12. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • australia
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13. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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14. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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15. 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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16. Heartstrong

By: Ellidy Pullin

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'If not with you, then for you.' 'It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin k… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Lisa

By: Lisa Curry

4.25

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) by Chris Hammer

18. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

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  • australia
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19. The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly, #3)

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The unputdownable new novel from the bestselling author of The Ruin and The Scholar. Police corrupt… read more

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20. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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  • australia
"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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21. 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
  • australia
"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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22. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

By: Michael Crawley

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian 'Excellent' Runner's Wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more

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24. 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
Cover of The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD by Matilda Boseley

25. 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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26. Curlews on Vulture Street

By: Darryl Jones

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Curlews on Vulture Street , acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret liv… read more

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27. A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods

By: Margaret Cook

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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28. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

Cover of A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (Updated edition) by Margaret Cook

29. A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (Updated edition)

By: Margaret Cook

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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3.88

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4.62

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Ellidy Pullin

4.61

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Lisa Curry

4.25

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David McCloskey

4.21

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Adrian McKinty

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