Mothertongues
By: Ceridwen Dovey
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, two women decide to take a risk: to c…
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- memoir
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. The Boy Behind the Curtain
By: Tim Winton
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Audio CD
The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtainreveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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5. A Child's Book of True Crime
By: Chloe Hooper
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair wi… read more
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6. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
7. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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8. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
9. The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality
By: Georgia Blain
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her… read more
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10. Say It Again In A Nice Voice
By: Meg Mason
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meg Mason is not ready to laugh about any of this yet, but that doesn't mean you can't ... 'Mothers… read more
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11. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
12. 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
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. 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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14. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
15. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
16. One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life
By: Pip Williams
3.83
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and… read more
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- memoir
17. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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18. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- feminism
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. 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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- memoir
21. How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women
By: Jennifer Robinson
4.34
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break op… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Stargazer
By: Laurie Petrou
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more
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23. My Brilliant Sister
By: Amy Brown
3.42
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life … read more
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- feminism
24. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
25. 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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- memoir
26. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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27. Heartsick
By: Jessie Stephens
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we respect. And so we are left in the middle of th… read more
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- memoir
28. Mothertongues
By: Ceridwen Dovey
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, two women decide to take a risk: to c… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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. Woo Woo
By: Ella Baxter
3.50
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful … read more
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