Dress Rehearsals
By: Madison Godfrey
3.98
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binar…
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1. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
By: Bill Hayes
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
2. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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- australia
4. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
5. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
6. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- queer
- australia
- lgbt
7. I'd Rather Not
By: Robert Skinner
3.72
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
8. The House That Joy Built
By: Holly Ringland
3.88
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
9. 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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- nonfiction
- australia
10. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
11. Son of Sin
By: Omar Sakr
3.69
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind f… read more
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- queer
- australia
- lgbt
12. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
13. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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14. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast
By: Karina May
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback
What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more
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15. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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- australia
16. Fat Girl Dancing
By: Kris Kneen
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. 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
18. Throat
By: Ellen Van Neerven
4.22
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- australia
- queer
19. The Sitter
By: Angela O'Keeffe
3.77
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggli… read more
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- australia
20. Girl in a Pink Dress
By: Kylie Needham
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Can one relationship survive two ambitious artists? Frances is an artist in her forties living a… read more
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- australia
21. A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays
By: Erin Riley
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for … read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
22. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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- australia
23. The Modern
By: Anna Kate Blair
3.10
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristin… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
24. Little Plum
By: Laura McPhee-Browne
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the cusp of thirty, Coral learns that a thing is growing inside her body. It is not necessarily … read more
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25. Dress Rehearsals
By: Madison Godfrey
3.98
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binar… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- queer
26. Raised by Wolves
By: Jess Ho
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunct… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
27. The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat
By: Sara M. Saleh
4.59
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee cam… read more
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- poetry
28. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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29. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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- queer
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30. Clean
By: Scott-Patrick Mitchell
4.59
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
In this volume, Scott-Patrick Mitchell propels us into the seething mess of the methamphetamine cri… read more
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- poetry
31. Worm Food and Bone Sand
By: Caitlin Ellis
4.76
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
"From dust, I come, and to dust, I'll return. Worm food and bone sand, I'll infiltrate the earth as… read more
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- poetry
