12 must-read biography books like Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud by Mehreen Faruqi

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Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud

By: Mehreen Faruqi

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A no-holds-barred memoir and outspoken manifesto from Senator, role model, and modern Australian he…

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Cover of Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

1. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall book and Mehreen Faruqi's Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

2. Mullumbimby

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Ind… read more

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Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

3. 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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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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  • australia
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5. 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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6. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • australia
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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7. The Sugar Palace

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s ambition Sydney, 1925: When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Swe… read more

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8. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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9. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • australia
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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10. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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  • australia
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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11. 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

Cover of Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All by Hannah Ferguson

12. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
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13. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

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  • australia
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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14. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • australia
Cover of The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall

15. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

By: Jane Goodall

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
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17. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • 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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18. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Cover of I Don't: The Case Against Marriage by Clementine Ford

19. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
Cover of Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard

20. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
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21. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

23. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Cover of Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) by Dinuka McKenzie

24. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

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  • australia
Cover of Puff Piece by John Safran

25. Puff Piece

By: John Safran

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

26. My Body Keeps Your Secrets

By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It occurred to me that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick  Morton

27. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

28. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Big Beautiful Female Theory by Eloise Grills

29. Big Beautiful Female Theory

By: Eloise Grills

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, big beautiful female theory is a carnivalesque exploratio… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens
Cover of Don't Look Away: A memoir of identity & acceptance by Danielle Laidley

30. Don't Look Away: A memoir of identity & acceptance

By: Danielle Laidley

4.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

'It's an inspiring, disarming, and deeply moving book, and it deserves to be widely read.' Craig Si… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud by Mehreen Faruqi

31. Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud

By: Mehreen Faruqi

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A no-holds-barred memoir and outspoken manifesto from Senator, role model, and modern Australian he… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • womens

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