Sold Down the River
By: Scott Hamilton
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Austral…
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1. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
By: Madeleine Thien
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, wh… read more
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2. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
By: Jane Harper
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more
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3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
4. Jasper Jones
By: Craig Silvey
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more
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5. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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6. The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)
By: James Islington
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs - once thought of almost … read more
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7. Me
By: Elton John
4.33
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more
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- nonfiction
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."-Elton John, Me
"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."-Elton John, Me
8. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
9. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
10. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)
By: Chris Hammer
4.07
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more
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11. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
12. Bruny
By: Heather Rose
3.86
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Midd… read more
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"This was what happened to Tasmanian children. A lot of us left the island in search of bigger dreams. And then, sometimes, we came back."-Heather Rose, Bruny
13. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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14. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
15. Investing with She’s on the Money: Build your future wealth
By: Victoria Devine
3.91
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
Through the She’s on the Money podcast and online community, and her bestselling first book, millen… read more
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16. 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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17. 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
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"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
18. No Hard Feelings
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more
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19. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
20. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
21. The Scholar (Cormac Reilly, #2)
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.05
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morni… read more
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22. Caught in the Act
By: Courtney Act
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised … read more
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23. 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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24. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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25. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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26. 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
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"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
27. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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28. The Land Before Avocado
By: Richard Glover
3.91
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more
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29. 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
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30. The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (Quarterly Essay, #89)
By: Saul Griffith
4.12
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level The country is at a crossroads. In The Wire… read more
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31. Sold Down the River
By: Scott Hamilton
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Austral… read more
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