13 must-read nonfiction books like Bowraville by Dan Box

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Bowraville

By: Dan Box

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bowraville by Dan Box , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Unsolved Australia

By: Justine Ford

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

Australia's most baffling homicides and mysterious missing persons' cases are uniquely explored in … read more

Similar categories in Justine Ford's Unsolved Australia book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Marriage of Opposites

By: Alice Hoffman

4.04

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Dovekeepersand The Museum of Extraordinary Things:… read more

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  • audiobook

3. Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail

By: James Phelps

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

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Similar categories in James Phelps's Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia

4. In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook

5. The Good Cop

By: Justine Ford

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' Ron Iddles In an incredible twenty… read more

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6. 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Honeybee book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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8. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • australia
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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10. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

By: M. William Phelps

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more

Similar categories in M. William Phelps's We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's One Hundred Days book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • australia
  • audiobook
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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12. The Wife and the Widow

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's The Wife and the Widow book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. Face It

By: Debbie Harry

3.61

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more

Similar categories in Debbie Harry's Face It book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

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15. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's The Nowhere Child book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Badness

By: Gary Jubelin

4.08

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's Badness book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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18. I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

By: Gary Jubelin

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Money Club book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. 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

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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22. 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

Similar categories in Jo Dixon's The House of Now and Then book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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23. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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24. In the Clearing

By: J.P. Pomare

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

The novel behind the hit TV series The Clearing released globally on Disney+ and Hulu. Amy has… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Pomare's In the Clearing book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Widow of Walcha

By: Emma Partridge

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Emma Partridge's The Widow of Walcha book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Teacher's Pet

By: Hedley Thomas

4.14

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more

Similar categories in Hedley Thomas's The Teacher's Pet book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Suburban True Crime: Australian cases you'll never forget and some you've never heard of

By: Emily Webb

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Chilling cases of murder and crime that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs. … read more

Similar categories in Emily Webb's Suburban True Crime: Australian cases you'll never forget and some you've never heard of book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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28. Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

By: Michael Robotham

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9781668030998 can be found here The mystery of Evie C… read more

Similar categories in Michael Robotham's Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4) book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We exist before we are born and after we die."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... everything I want is on the other side of fear."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... as though men were the solution to every problem."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"Introspection leads to self-analysis, which leads to self-hatred."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

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29. Bowraville

By: Dan Box

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of… read more

Similar categories in Dan Box's Bowraville book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Barrenjoey Road

By: Neil Mercer

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping expose of a notorious cold case 1978. An idyllic beachside community. A series of abduc… read more

Similar categories in Neil Mercer's Barrenjoey Road book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Wayward Girls

By: Amanda Mason

3.61

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Girls meets The Little Stranger in this dark and captivating debut about sisterhood, family sec… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Mason's The Wayward Girls book and Dan Box's Bowraville

  • mystery
  • audiobook

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