20 best-selling history books like The PM Years by Kevin Rudd

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The PM Years

By: Kevin Rudd

4.00

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

It was the coup that killed Australian politics.Less than three years after taking government in a …

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1. The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government

By: Niki Savva

3.82

Format: 254 pages,

Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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2. Schindler's List

By: Thomas Keneally

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

3. Lazarus Rising

By: John Howard

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

John Howard spent decades under media scrutiny, and while his credentials as a political leader, de… read more

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4. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

By: Lawrence Wright

4.16

Format: 208 pages,

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5. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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6. True Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #2)

By: David Hunt

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

First there was Girt. Now comes ... True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling his… read more

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7. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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8. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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9. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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11. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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12. Theroux the Keyhole

By: Louis Theroux

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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14. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
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15. Persist

By: Elizabeth Warren

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring, influential senator and bestselling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"And early on I learned that no one gives you anything for free. If you really care about something, if you really want something, you have to fight for it."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in th…"

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Despite the overwhelming evidence of the impact of racism, today the fundamental idea of race neutrality continues to claim an elevated status in law. The consequence, Professor Ibram Kendi observes,…"

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

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16. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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17. The Golden Maze

By: Richard Fidler

4.21

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is bac… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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18. Into Iraq

By: Michael Palin

4.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
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20. The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison

By: Sean Kelly

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morri… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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21. Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension

By: Niki Savva

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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22. Puff Piece

By: John Safran

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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23. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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24. A Bigger Picture

By: Malcolm Turnbull

3.81

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

‘Malcolm’s writing is immediate and intelligent, infused with a wry humour and illuminated by extra… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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25. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy

By: Shaun Micallef

3.80

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
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26. When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present

By: Nick Bryant

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. Keating

By: Kerry O'Brien

4.33

Format: 840 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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28. The PM Years

By: Kevin Rudd

4.00

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

It was the coup that killed Australian politics.Less than three years after taking government in a … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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29. Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader

By: Troy Bramston

4.10

Format: 809 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR Paul the big-p… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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30. Not for the Faint-Hearted: A Personal Reflection On Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007

By: Rudd Kevin

4.06

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

In 2007, Kevin Rudd became only the third Labor prime minister since the Second World War, after Wh… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher

31. Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future

By: Peter Hartcher

4.38

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia

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Niki Savva

3.82

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4.36

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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

Peter Zeihan

4.18

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4.21

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