9 must-read nonfiction books like End Times by Rebecca Priestley

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End Times

By: Rebecca Priestley

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the n…

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1. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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2. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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3. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • adult
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4. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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5. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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6. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

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  • adult
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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7. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
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8. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • adult
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9. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot

By: Élodie Durand

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

By: Annabel Streets

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • adult
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12. One of Those Mothers

By: Megan Nicol Reed

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more

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13. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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14. Loop Tracks

By: Sue Orr

4.16

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more

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15. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

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16. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

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17. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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18. The Night She Fell

By: Eileen Merriman

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more

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19. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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20. Bird Life

By: Anna Smaill

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration… read more

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21. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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22. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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23. Backwaters

By: Emma Ling Sidnam

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Laura is tired of being asked where she’s really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand… read more

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24. The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case

By: Kirsty Johnston

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains New Zealand' s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

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26. Dice

By: Claire Baylis

3.86

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more

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27. The Grimmelings

By: Rachael King

4.38

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Spellbinding middle-grade fantasy adventure of loyalty, courage, and being careful what you wish fo… read more

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28. End Times

By: Rebecca Priestley

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
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29. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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30. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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31. Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay

By: Paul Diamond

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Catherine Chidgey

4.06

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Priya Guns

3.27

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4.31

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Emily Perkins

3.43

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Coco Solid

4.23

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3.94

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3.43

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