5 Top history books like The Snowy: A History, New Edition by Siobhan McHugh

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The Snowy: A History, New Edition

By: Siobhan McHugh

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

The Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of…

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1. The Dragon Man (Peninsular Crimes, #1)

By: Garry Disher

3.77

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in th… read more

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2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

By: Jane Harper

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for t… read more

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4. The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)

By: Daniel Silva

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Seven days One girl No second chances Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain's governing party: … read more

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5. Mr Stuart's Track

By: John Bailey

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer

By: Robert Macklin

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

The untold story of Hamilton Hume - the Australian-born explorer who truly opened up the nation. Wh… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Robbery Under Arms; A Story Of Life And Adventure In The Bush And In The Australian Goldfields

By: Rolf Boldrewood

3.45

Format: None pages,

A century after its first publication, Robbery Under Arms remains as fresh and enthralling as when … read more

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8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

9. Kittyhawk Down (Inspector Challis, #2)

By: Garry Disher

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"A missing two-year-old girl, and the body of an unidentified drowning victim have brought Homicide… read more

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10. A Painted House

By: John Grisham

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in th… read more

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11. The Great Zoo of China

By: Matthew Reilly

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping… read more

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12. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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13. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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14. 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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15. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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16. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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17. 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

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18. 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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19. 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

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"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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20. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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22. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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23. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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24. The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Ge… read more

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25. The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more

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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

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26. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

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27. Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War

By: Roland Perry

4.42

Format: 586 pages, Hardcover

s/t: A Biography of Australia's Greatest Military Commander read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Girl Who Touched The Stars: One woman's inspiring true story of adventure, resilience and love, for readers of SHOWING UP and TRUE SPIRIT

By: Bonnie Hancock

4.26

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. PRAISE 'Bonn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Snowy: A History, New Edition

By: Siobhan McHugh

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

The Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

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John Bailey

4.50

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Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer

Robert Macklin

3.72

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Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

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Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

Chris Hammer

3.96

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Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

Chris Hammer

4.07

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Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

Shelley Burr

3.99

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Christian White

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