7 best-selling nonfiction books like Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson

Cover of Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson

Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

By: Wil Patterson

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'Wil's honesty really had me gripped and his description of his first night in jail is something I …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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2. The Humans

By: Matt Haig

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are l… read more

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"As civilisation advances, so does indifference."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?"

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

3. Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail

By: James Phelps

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

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Similar categories in James Phelps's Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail book and Wil Patterson's Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

  • nonfiction

4. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

By: Philip Carlo

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

There were times at home when Richard would have one of his outbursts and break things and then loc… read more

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5. The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay

By: David Murray

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

How did a father with no criminal history come to be on trial for the brutal murder of his wife? Al… read more

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6. 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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7. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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8. Kill Your Husbands

By: Jack Heath

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more

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"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."

-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands

Cover of The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1) by Dervla McTiernan

9. The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Ge… read more

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10. Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails

By: James Phelps

3.65

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison sys… read more

Similar categories in James Phelps's Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails book and Wil Patterson's Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

  • nonfiction
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11. If You tell Anyone, You're Next

By: Jack Heath

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exclusive group chat. A deadly challenge. How far would you go to join? Jayden Jones is missing.… read more

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12. Larrimah

By: Caroline Graham

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted togeth… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps

13. Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail

By: James Phelps

3.89

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the noto… read more

Similar categories in James Phelps's Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail book and Wil Patterson's Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

  • nonfiction
Cover of Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson

14. Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

By: Wil Patterson

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'Wil's honesty really had me gripped and his description of his first night in jail is something I … read more

Similar categories in Wil Patterson's Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail book and Wil Patterson's Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

13 must-read nonfiction books like Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails by James Phelps

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Kathryn Bonella

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

Scott Pape

4.47

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Lies My Mirror Told Me

Wendy Harmer

3.98

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The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

Vanessa Frake

4.33

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