9 must-read biography books like Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs by Julia Banks

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Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs

By: Julia Banks

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world,…

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1. Fight Like a Girl

By: Clementine Ford

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

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2. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

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3. 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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  • australia
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4. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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5. 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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  • australia
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6. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • feminism
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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7. 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

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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8. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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  • feminism
  • australia
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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9. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • australia
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10. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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11. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

By: Jessie Tu

3.19

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more

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  • australia
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12. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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13. 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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  • australia
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14. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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

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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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16. Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge

By: Bri Lee

3.65

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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17. The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1)

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.99

Format: 545 pages, Hardcover

Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, a v… read more

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18. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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19. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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20. 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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  • australia
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21. 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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22. Power: A Woman's Guide to Living and Leading Without Apology

By: Kemi Nekvapil

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A transformative path for women to build their power in a world all too eager to strip it away W… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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23. The Couple Upstairs

By: Holly Wainwright

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.A young man who reminds … read more

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24. 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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  • australia
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25. The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison

By: Sean Kelly

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morri… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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26. Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

By: Julia Gillard

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Toxic at Work: Surviving your psychopathic workmates, from the dominant bullies to the charming manipulators by David Gillespie

27. Toxic at Work: Surviving your psychopathic workmates, from the dominant bullies to the charming manipulators

By: David Gillespie

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Most bullies are psychopaths, but not all psychopaths are immediately recognised as bullies. Some b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Sex, Lies and Question Time

By: Kate Ellis

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Sex, Lies and Question Time, former MP Kate Ellis explores the good, the bad and the ugly of lif… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Your Weight Is Not the Problem: A simple, no-diet plan for healthy habits that stick by Lyndi Cohen

29. Your Weight Is Not the Problem: A simple, no-diet plan for healthy habits that stick

By: Lyndi Cohen

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An evidence-based guide to breaking your fixation with weight, with simple strategies to make peace… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs by Julia Banks

30. Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs

By: Julia Banks

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of How To Not Work Forever: Start Investing and Build a Life You Love by Natasha Etschmann

31. How To Not Work Forever: Start Investing and Build a Life You Love

By: Natasha Etschmann

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

If you want to live your dream life tomorrow, you need to make the right investing choices today I… read more

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  • nonfiction

10 must-read politics books like Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs by Julia Banks

Transform Your Habits

Fight Like a Girl

Clementine Ford

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

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

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

Niki Savva

4.21

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Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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