11 Top australia books like Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul

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Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

By: Stuart Rintoul

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal…

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1. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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2. Watching You (Joseph O'Loughlin, #7)

By: Michael Robotham

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Michael Robotham brings us face-to-face with a manipulative psych… read more

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3. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

4. Terra Nullius

By: Claire G. Coleman

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sen… read more

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5. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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6. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

By: Bill Gammage

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettle… read more

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7. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

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8. 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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9. 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

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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. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36) by Jonathan Kellerman

13. Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.18

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old c… read more

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14. 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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15. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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16. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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17. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

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18. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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19. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

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  • biography
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20. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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21. 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

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22. Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3)

By: Michael Robotham

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest page-turning, psychological thriller in thi… read more

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23. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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24. The White Girl

By: Tony Birch

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white… read more

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25. You Need to Know

By: Nicola Moriarty

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about th… read more

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26. Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of contr… read more

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27. The Visitors

By: Jane Harrison

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more

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28. The End of the Morning

By: Charmian Clift

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘In those days the end of the morning was always… read more

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29. The Wild Date Palm

By: Diane Armstrong

3.99

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set… read more

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30. Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

By: Stuart Rintoul

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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31. Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

4.16

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes a sweeping new h… read more

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Amy Tintera

4.13

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3.79

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Sally Hepworth

4.04

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