15 Best nonfiction books like Cold Vein by Anne Tonner

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Cold Vein

By: Anne Tonner

4.41

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

For the last three years Chloe has been slowly dying. Although she is sixteen, she weighs as much a…

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1. The Secrets She Keeps

By: Michael Robotham

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Girl on the Trainand In a Dark, Dark Wood, from the internation… read more

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2. Patient 71

By: Julie Randall

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An inspiring true story of resilience, tenacity and a promise that fuelled one woman's fight for li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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4. Reckoning: A Memoir

By: Magda Szubanski

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szuban… read more

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5. The Spare Room

By: Helen Garner

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the othe… read more

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6. Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014

By: Emily Herbert

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A thoughtful look at the brilliant life and tragic death of a comedy icon At midday on August 11, 2… read more

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7. 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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8. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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9. 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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"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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10. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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11. The Mother

By: Jane Caro

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just somet… read more

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"There's no need to charm your mother, she thought. Which is both a compliment and a burden."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

"The pall bearers were holding Pete's coffin, waiting to walk down the aisle—just like bridesmaids. The music began and they started to move, trying to keep pace with David Bowie's 'Changes'."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

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12. Grown Ups

By: Marian Keyes

3.94

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beauti… read more

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"Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable."

-Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

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13. Unbreakable

By: Jelena Dokic

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

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17. The Audacity

By: Katherine Ryan

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ryan's The Audacity book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

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19. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself

By: Toni Lodge

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more

Similar categories in Toni Lodge's I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Empty

By: Susan Burton

3.78

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"

-Susan Burton, Empty

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21. 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

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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22. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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23. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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24. The Mother-in-Law

By: Sally Hepworth

3.97

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A twisty, compelling novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that e… read more

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"Но, ако нешто сум научила во животот, тоа е дека војни се добиваат со ум, а не со мускули."

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"Најпосле, кога се давиш, а некој ти нуди чамец за спасување, не проверуваш да не е дупнат пред да се качиш во него."

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"By the time I get out of the shower, Tom is in bed. At first I think he is asleep, but as soon as I crawl in beside him, his eyes open. “How are you going to live without me?"

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"Можев да напишам и нешто повеќе, но на крајот, само две мудрости се вредни за да ги оставам зад себе. Напорно работев за сѐ што ми беше важно во животот. А ништо што ми беше важно не чинеше ниту пари…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

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25. All the Lonely People

By: Mike Gayle

4.17

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone. He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to … read more

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"Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!"

-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

"That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them."

-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

"I've got a question for you . . . What are you doing on Saturday night?' Hubert stared at her confused. 'Me . . . me . . . got no plans.' 'Good,' she replied. 'In that case you're taking me to the fi…"

-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

"For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all t…"

-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

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26. 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

Similar categories in Hedley Thomas's The Teacher's Pet book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
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27. The Hush

By: Sara Foster

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational, female-led thriller, and a terrifying conspiracy that goes right to the heart … read more

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28. Bewildered

By: Laura Waters

4.31

Format: None pages, None

WINNER OF 2021 ASTW BEST TRAVEL BOOK (Australian Society of Travel Writers) What would move you … read more

Similar categories in Laura Waters's Bewildered book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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29. The Girl in the Green Dress

By: Jeni Haynes

4.58

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS is an unforgettable memoir from a woman who refused to be silenced. Jen… read more

Similar categories in Jeni Haynes's The Girl in the Green Dress book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival

By: Karen Kirsten

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s persona… read more

Similar categories in Karen Kirsten's Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival book and Anne Tonner's Cold Vein

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Cold Vein by Anne Tonner

31. Cold Vein

By: Anne Tonner

4.41

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

For the last three years Chloe has been slowly dying. Although she is sixteen, she weighs as much a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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