14 best-selling biography books like Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey

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Diplomatic: A Washington memoir

By: Joe Hockey

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 2015, Joe Hockey's promising political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malco…

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Cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

1. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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2. Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more

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3. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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7. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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8. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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9. Paradise (DS Walker, #2)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coas… read more

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Cover of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors by Tom Bower

10. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

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"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

Cover of Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva

11. 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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12. The Chocolate Factory

By: Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1… read more

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13. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare

By: Ben Bravery

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more

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14. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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15. 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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16. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

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Cover of Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard

17. 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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18. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

Cover of Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

19. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By: Oren Kessler

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more

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20. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

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Cover of An Unlikely Prisoner by Sean Turnell

21. An Unlikely Prisoner

By: Sean Turnell

4.28

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Australia’s most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling… read more

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Cover of Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory by Owen Wright

22. Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory

By: Owen Wright

4.35

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despai… read more

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Cover of Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe

23. Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term

By: Bruce Wolpe

4.05

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Trump could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we ha… read more

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24. Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive

By: Jelena Dokic

4.01

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you fi… read more

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25. Hope

By: Rosie Batty

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of t… read more

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26. The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

By: Paddy Manning

3.91

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A book about power, apprenticeship, and succession in the first family of media An heir apparent t… read more

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27. The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening

By: Hugh Mackay

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Unknown: A Refugee’s Story by Akuch Kuol Anyieth

28. Unknown: A Refugee’s Story

By: Akuch Kuol Anyieth

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl’s escape, with her family, … read more

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29. Plagued

By: Simon Benson

2.90

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the inside story of Australia’s two years of hell, when the country was besieged by crisis … read more

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"The government insists that the many shall not be placed in danger for the few and that EVERYONE SHALL WEAR A MASK. Those who are not doing so are not showing their independence - they are showing th…"

-Simon Benson, Plagued

"Morrison was acutely aware of the limitations of the country's constitutional power-sharing arrangements. For example, he was worried about the potential for massive civil disobedience against health…"

-Simon Benson, Plagued

"A declaration under section 475 [of the Biosecurity Act would give] Hunt as Health minister exclusive and extraordinary powers. He, and only he, could personally make directives that overrode any oth…"

-Simon Benson, Plagued

Cover of Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey

30. Diplomatic: A Washington memoir

By: Joe Hockey

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 2015, Joe Hockey's promising political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malco… read more

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Cover of The Fall by Michael  Wolff

31. The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Pip Williams

4.07

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Emma Espiner

4.31

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