7 best-selling politics books like John Curtin: A Life by David Day

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John Curtin: A Life

By: David Day

4.15

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

David Day's biography John Curtin: A Life will be the first to critically reassess Australia's best…

If you liked the politics plot in John Curtin: A Life by David Day , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • world war ii
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. We of the Never Never

By: Jeannie Gunn

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. An Australian classic. Depicts the enduring hardships of life in the… read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Gunn's We of the Never Never book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia

3. The Blind Assassin

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more

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4. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

Similar categories in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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5. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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6. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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7. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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8. 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

Similar categories in Niki Savva's Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty

9. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

By: Thomas Piketty

3.44

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century O… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Piketty's Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. 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

Similar categories in Sean Kelly's The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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11. The Palace Letters: The Queen, The Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam

By: Jenny Hocking

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A hidden correspondence. A political betrayal. A constitutional crisis. The Palace Letters is the g… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hocking's The Palace Letters: The Queen, The Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. Damascus

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.54

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER - Best Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards'They kill us, they crucify us, they thro… read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's Damascus book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

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13. Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia

By: Frank Bongiorno

4.23

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

A landmark book—the first full political history of Australia In this compelling and comprehensive… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bongiorno's Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of John Curtin: A Life by David  Day

14. John Curtin: A Life

By: David Day

4.15

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

David Day's biography John Curtin: A Life will be the first to critically reassess Australia's best… read more

Similar categories in David Day's John Curtin: A Life book and David Day's John Curtin: A Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • australia

8 must-read history books like John Curtin: A Life by David Day

Transform Your Habits

The Coming of the Third Reich

Richard J. Evans

3.44

We of the Never Never

Jeannie Gunn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

Niki Savva

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

Thomas Piketty

3.44

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9 must-read history books like The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults

Van Badham

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

Niki Savva

4.21

Transform Your Habits

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

Julia Gillard

4.28

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