7 Best nonfiction books like Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe

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Breath

By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Queensland Literary Award Winner 2024 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award 'I am d…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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2. Audrey's Gone AWOL

By: Annie de Monchaux

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It’s never too late to reinvent your life Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family li… read more

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3. Whenever You're Ready

By: Trish Bolton

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn betwe… read more

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"Lizzie understood too well the focus on the task. The bottom to be washed, the bed to be changed, human attentions lost to overwork and time management. What must it be like to work in such a place t…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

"It always felt strange that life outside went on, thought Lizzie, after saying goodbye to her mother, there was so much sorrow within those four walls, she wondered how it could possibly be contained…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

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4. What I Would Do to You

By: Georgia Harper

3.92

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A near-future Australia. The death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetr… read more

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5. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Carly-Jay Metcalfe's Breath

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. 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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7. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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8. 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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9. We All Lived in Bondi Then

By: Georgia Blain

4.16

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collecti… read more

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10. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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11. Breath

By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Queensland Literary Award Winner 2024 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award 'I am d… read more

Similar categories in Carly-Jay Metcalfe's Breath book and Carly-Jay Metcalfe's Breath

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

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13. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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14. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

Similar categories in Ariane Beeston's Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink book and Carly-Jay Metcalfe's Breath

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Fragile Creatures: A Memoir

By: Khin Myint

3.55

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful debut from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremityKhin's sister Theda ha… read more

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16. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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17. Love, Death & Other Scenes

By: Nova Weetman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nova Weetman' s unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Line in the Sand

By: Dean Yates

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

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"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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20. Three Wild Dogs and the Truth

By: Markus Zusak

4.33

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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You Called an Ambulance for What?

Tim Booth

3.98

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

Julia Gillard

4.28

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Breath

Carly-Jay Metcalfe

4.38

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Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

Ariane Beeston

4.57

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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