8 must-read memoir books like Tell Them My Name by Laura Maya

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Tell Them My Name

By: Laura Maya

4.62

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Tell Them My Name is an inspiring true story that explores how even the most impossible dreams can …

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1. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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2. Eva Luna

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover… read more

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3. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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4. 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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5. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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6. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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7. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

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"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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8. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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9. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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10. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

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11. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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12. The Secret Life of Sunflowers

By: Marta Molnar

4.13

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in… read more

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13. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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14. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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15. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

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16. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

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17. The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more

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18. Travels with Geoffrey : If It CAN Go Wrong, It Will (Never a Dull Moment)

By: Sharon Hayhurst

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sharon and her husband, Geoffrey, travel abroad, they stumble through Canada, Europe, Southeas… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
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19. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Terms of Inheritance

By: Michelle Upton

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Four sisters. A vast fortune. And a mother who thinks she knows best ... Where there's a will, t… read more

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21. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

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22. The Animals in That Country

By: Laura Jean McKay

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more

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23. Bento Boxes, Boomerangs & Red Foxes: travels around the world

By: Lisa Rose Wright

4.60

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you take the country souls out of Galicia and throw them on an unsuspecting world… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Anticlockwise Proposal: A Travel Adventure Around the World in Eighty Diamonds

By: Simon Michael Prior

4.76

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

When Simon embarks on an around-the-world quest to find the perfect engagement ring, he has no idea… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
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25. Hot Pools, Paua Shells & a Pandemic: Travels around the world

By: Lisa Rose Wright

4.48

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

“Slugger Stewart and Slammer Lisa made short work of our big bathroom and laundry room demolition.”… read more

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  • travel
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26. Naked Ambition

By: Robert Gott

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

‘You’re a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?’ Up-and-coming junior mi… read more

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27. Trekker Girl Morocco Bound: Life after Blood Clots or How I Learned to Live and Love Life as a Thrombosis Survivor

By: Dawne Archer

4.70

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Brave or foolhardy? That is the question Dawne asks herself when she stubbornly pursues her goal… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
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28. Sidesteps to The Somme on The Shoe: Travels by Barge Along the Western Front (Faring on The Shoe)

By: Valerie Poore

4.84

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when you plan a summer boat trip and the canal runs out of water? This is what happe… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Tell Them My Name by Laura    Maya

29. Tell Them My Name

By: Laura Maya

4.62

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Tell Them My Name is an inspiring true story that explores how even the most impossible dreams can … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Accidental Plus One : Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse (The Accidental Plus One Series) by Alison Ripley Cubitt

30. The Accidental Plus One : Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse (The Accidental Plus One Series)

By: Alison Ripley Cubitt

4.32

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A burnt-out media executive. A chance to leave it all behind. Can she take that leap into the unkno… read more

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5 Best nonfiction books like Tell Them My Name by Laura Maya

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Silence

Raynor Winn

3.98

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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Johann Hari

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Bento Boxes, Boomerangs & Red Foxes: travels around the world

Lisa Rose Wright

4.60

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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Simon Armitage

3.73

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De Camino

Anya Niewierra

4.00

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Richard Osman

4.49

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