9 must-read sports books like The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford

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The Matilda Effect

By: Fiona Crawford

4.12

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of …

If you liked the sports plot in The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Audio CD

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson w… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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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

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3. 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

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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 Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • nonfiction
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5. 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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6. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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7. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Ferguson's Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All book and Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • nonfiction
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9. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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11. Showing Up

By: Nedd Brockmann

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. How (Not) To Be Strong

By: Alex Scott

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott'… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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13. Lioness: My Journey to Glory

By: Beth Mead

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With foreword by Ian Wright & afterword by Jermain Defoe Beth Mead is one of the world's most ta… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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14. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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15. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • sports
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16. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. 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
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18. The Running Club

By: Ali Lowe

3.92

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep … read more

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19. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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20. 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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21. The Next Big Thing

By: James Colley

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Part young-love rom-com, part David and Goliath story, The Next Big Thing is a heartwarming, hilari… read more

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22. 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

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  • nonfiction
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23. Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

By: Maggie MacKellar

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Can I Steal You for a Second?

By: Jodi McAlister

3.67

Format: None pages, Audiobook

When you sign up to a dating show, you’re supposed to fall in love with the male lead, not another … read more

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25. The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more

Similar categories in Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead book and Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • nonfiction
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26. My Journey to the World Cup

By: Sam Kerr

3.44

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kerr's My Journey to the World Cup book and Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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27. Girls Don't Play Sport: The game-changing, defiant rise of women's sport, and why it matters

By: Chloe Dalton

4.35

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women's sport, from the Ol… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Dalton's Girls Don't Play Sport: The game-changing, defiant rise of women's sport, and why it matters book and Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • sports
  • nonfiction
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28. The Matilda Effect

By: Fiona Crawford

4.12

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect book and Fiona Crawford's The Matilda Effect

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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29. 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

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30. Our Year: European Champions 2022: The Official England Winners Book

By: The England Women's Football Team

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The only official book of England’s European Championship triumph. With a foreword by Engl… read more

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  • sports
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31. Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity

By: Ellen Van Neerven

4.28

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport's troubled relat… read more

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  • nonfiction

17 Best nonfiction books like The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford

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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty

3.69

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Emma Carey

4.38

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Oisín McKenna

3.96

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