12 best-selling nonfiction books like You Talk, We Die by Judy Ryan

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You Talk, We Die

By: Judy Ryan

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

‘If not us, who? If not now, when?’ You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city…

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1. Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill

By: Megan Norris

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One Australian woman is hospitalised every three hours and two more lose their lives each week as a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. 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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3. 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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  • nonfiction
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4. 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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5. 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
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Love, Just In

By: Natalie Murray

3.82

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of Emily Henry's You and Me On Vacation , Love, Just In is a friends-to-lovers romance … read more

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  • health
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10. 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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  • 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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11. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

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12. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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13. Whenever You're Ready

By: Trish Bolton

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn betwe… read more

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"Lizzie understood too well the focus on the task. The bottom to be washed, the bed to be changed, human attentions lost to overwork and time management. What must it be like to work in such a place t…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

"It always felt strange that life outside went on, thought Lizzie, after saying goodbye to her mother, there was so much sorrow within those four walls, she wondered how it could possibly be contained…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

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14. 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
"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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15. 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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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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  • nonfiction
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17. 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
"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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18. 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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19. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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20. 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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21. Feast

By: Emily O'Grady

3.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yello… read more

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22. Witness

By: Louise Milligan

4.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the best-selling author of CARDINAL comes a searing examination of the power imbalance in our … read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Heart Is a Star

By: Megan Rogers

3.64

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling… read more

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24. The Man Who Wasn't There

By: Dan Box

3.82

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION 2024‘deeply powerful and beautiful’ - Trent Dal… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

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28. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

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29. Killer Traitor Spy (John Bailey #4)

By: Tim Ayliffe

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Journalist John Bailey and CIA officer Ronnie Johnson join forces… read more

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30. You Talk, We Die

By: Judy Ryan

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

‘If not us, who? If not now, when?’ You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city… read more

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20 must-read fiction books like Search History by Amy Taylor

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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Seeing Other People

Diana Reid

3.42

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Genevieve Novak

3.80

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