11 Best nonfiction books like Take Risks by John Marsden

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Take Risks

By: John Marsden

3.37

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is a thrilling adventure. Our children get only rare glimpses of the possibilities.To roam, to…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Take Risks by John Marsden , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Natural Way of Things

By: None

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the… read more

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2. 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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3. 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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"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

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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7. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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8. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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9. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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10. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • education
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13. Without Further ADO

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Can a modern woman take lessons in love from Shakespeare? Beth O'Leary meets 10 Things I Hate About… read more

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14. 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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15. The Audacity

By: Katherine Ryan

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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17. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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18. The Money Club

By: Fiona Lowe

3.94

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A gripping exploration of modern greed as bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe unpicks the mora… read more

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19. 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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20. When Things Are Alive They Hum

By: Hannah Bent

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781761150081. Marlowe and Harper share a bond de… read more

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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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23. 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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24. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. White Noise (Dr. Laura Fleming, #1)

By: Mercedes Mercier

4.06

Format: 352 pages, ebook

When prison psychologist Dr Laura Fleming is assigned charismatic inmate Justin Jones to assess for… read more

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26. Undara

By: Annie Seaton

4.25

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Within the treacherous caves of Undara, a betrayal will test the bonds of friendship and family. A … read more

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27. Hopeless Kingdom

By: Kgshak Akec

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelo… read more

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28. Bringing Up Boys Who Like Themselves

By: Kasey Edwards

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the success of Raising Girls Who Like Themselves, Kasey Edwards and Dr Chris Scanlon have… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Take Risks

By: John Marsden

3.37

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is a thrilling adventure. Our children get only rare glimpses of the possibilities.To roam, to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • education
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30. Forgotten

By: Casey Nott

4.86

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After a traumatic car accident, Ava Durant wakes up in hospital not remembering how she got there. … read more

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Heather Rose

3.96

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3.89

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4.06

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Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Jane Tara

4.02

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3.86

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Mary-Lou Stephens

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