13 Top indigenous books like Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina

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Living on Stolen Land

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

4.68

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at Australia's colonial-settler ‘present’. This book i…

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1. Deadly, Unna?

By: Phillip Gwynne

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. Dum… read more

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  • australia

2. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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3. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)

By: John Marsden

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… read more

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4. Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles, #1)

By: Isobelle Carmody

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book One For Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Grea… read more

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5. 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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6. Promising Young Women

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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  • australia
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9. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • australia
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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10. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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11. 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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  • australia
  • indigenous
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12. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

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  • australia
  • indigenous
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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13. Dropbear

By: Evelyn Araluen

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Araluen's Dropbear book and Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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14. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

By: Clementine Ford

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
"Not all men!" isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impac…"

-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

"Ah yes, the meritocracy. Isn't it amazing how so many of the 'best people for the job' always happen to be white, cis-het, middle-class men? It couldn't be that structural inequality and hierarchal p…"

-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

"What I'm suggesting is that your impulse to assign meaning to something as arbitrary and functional as genitalia is born out of a cultural imperative to affix labels where none are necessary, and tha…"

-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

"It doesn't matter how politically progressive your household is when it comes to aspirations outside the home and the limitless capabilites of women; if it's made clear within those four walls that i…"

-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

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15. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

By: Eddie Betts

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Betts's The Boy from Boomerang Crescent book and Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
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16. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • australia
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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17. 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

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Talented Mrs Greenway

By: Tea Cooper

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more

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  • australia
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19. 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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  • australia
  • indigenous
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20. Kindred

By: Kirli Saunders

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kirli Saunders debut poetry collection is a pleasure to lose yourself in. Kirli has a keen eye for … read more

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  • poetry
  • indigenous
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21. The Jaguar

By: Sarah Holland-Batt

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Holland-Batt's The Jaguar book and Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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22. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Watego's Another Day in the Colony book and Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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23. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

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24. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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25. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mayo's The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need book and Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • australia
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26. Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

By: Jack Charles

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
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27. Dirrarn (Black Cockatoo Book 2)

By: Carl Merrison

3.73

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Age range 10+Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye’s had flicked t… read more

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  • australia
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28. Homecoming

By: Elfie Shiosaki

4.29

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explore… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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29. Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience

By: Veronica Gorrie

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina

30. Living on Stolen Land

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

4.68

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at Australia's colonial-settler ‘present’. This book i… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • australia
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31. Girl Falling

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more

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