13 must-read nonfiction books like How We Became Human by Tim Dean

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How We Became Human

By: Tim Dean

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger s…

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1. One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

By: Mei Fong

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how it… read more

Similar categories in Mei Fong's One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! by M.J. DeMarco

2. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!

By: M.J. DeMarco

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Is the financial plan of mediocrity-a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as The Slowlane-your… read more

Similar categories in M.J. DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
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3. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

Cover of Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) by Chris Hammer

5. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • audiobook
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6. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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  • audiobook
"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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7. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Humankind: A Hopeful History

By: Rutger Bregman

4.32

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more

Similar categories in Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

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9. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

Similar categories in Julie Smith's Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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10. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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11. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Gabbie Stroud's The Things That Matter Most book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • audiobook
Cover of The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness by Hugh van Cuylenburg

12. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

13. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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  • audiobook
"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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14. 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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  • audiobook
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15. Happy Endings

By: Bella Green

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Bella Green is a Sunday-afternoon sex worker. Divorced dads, IT nerds, international students - she… read more

Similar categories in Bella Green's Happy Endings book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

4.45

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The immersive, inspiring and long-awaited memoir by legendary activist and scholar Ngahuia Te Aweko… read more

Similar categories in Ngahuia Te Awekotuku's Hine Toa book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
Cover of Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing by David Richo

17. Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing

By: David Richo

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Work with your triggers to find peace in the painful moments and lasting emotional well-being. P… read more

Similar categories in David Richo's Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Wild Abandon

By: Emily Bitto

3.32

Format: 449 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In spring of 2011, … read more

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  • audiobook
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19. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

Similar categories in Jess Hill's See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Cover of How We Became Human by Tim   Dean

20. How We Became Human

By: Tim Dean

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger s… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dean's How We Became Human book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly

21. Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History

By: Eliza Reilly

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never ta… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Reilly's Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History book and Tim Dean's How We Became Human

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If a Shelia is gonna break the rules, she has to have studied the rule book first."

-Eliza Reilly, Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History

19 best-selling audiobook books like How We Became Human by Tim Dean

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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

Mei Fong

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

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Chris Hammer

4.07

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30 Best audiobook books like Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Pip Williams

4.07

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Tabitha Carvan

3.82

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