12 must-read nonfiction books like As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson

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As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

By: Kaya Wilson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland

1. The Anti-Cool Girl

By: Rosie Waterland

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Brutal, brave, hilarious -- a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can thro… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
Cover of Shy by Max Porter

3. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's Shy book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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6. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gadsby's Ten Steps to Nanette book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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7. 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

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
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8. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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9. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

Similar categories in Larissa Behrendt's After Story book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
Cover of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

10. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

4.39

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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11. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

Similar categories in Grace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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12. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

Similar categories in Tilly Lawless's Nothing but My Body book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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13. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

Similar categories in Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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15. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

Cover of Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

16. Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • transgender
  • lgbt
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17. Throat

By: Ellen Van Neerven

4.22

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Van Neerven's Throat book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

18. Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience

By: Veronica Gorrie

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Gorrie's Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson

19. As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

By: Kaya Wilson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident… read more

Similar categories in Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

20. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • lgbt
Cover of Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s by Bridie Jabour

21. Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s

By: Bridie Jabour

3.31

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miser… read more

Similar categories in Bridie Jabour's Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s book and Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Anti-Cool Girl

Rosie Waterland

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Shy

Max Porter

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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