19 best-selling australia books like Out of the Forest by Gregory P. Smith

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Out of the Forest

By: Gregory P. Smith

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For ten years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South …

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1. Dirt Music

By: Tim Winton

0.00

Format: 194 pages,

Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Be… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
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2. Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia

By: E. Fuller Torrey , Anne Deveson

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, and a founder of the National Schizophrenia Australia Organization,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. Breath

By: Tim Winton

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more

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4. Monkey Grip

By: Helen Garner

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

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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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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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7. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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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
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life by Pip Williams

11. One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life

By: Pip Williams

3.83

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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14. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. 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
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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17. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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18. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Side of Beautiful

By: Kim Lock

3.94

Format: 368 pages, ebook

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out nove… read more

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  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"No matter how people fought it, or denied it, or outraged about it. Death happened. Birth happened. Life happened. It was a devastating, as transformative, and a simple as that."

-Kim Lock, The Other Side of Beautiful

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20. This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

By: Marc Fennell

3.32

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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22. The Deep

By: Kyle Perry

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling breakout author of The Bluffs comes a heart-stopping new thriller set on the r… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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23. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD by Matilda Boseley

24. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia  Henry

26. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree

27. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir

By: Charlotte Ree

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess  Hill

28. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

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29. Out of the Forest

By: Gregory P. Smith

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For ten years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • nature
  • audiobook
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30. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent by Gregory Smith

31. Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent

By: Gregory Smith

3.83

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

'There's a realm beyond happiness that very few people inhabit. Follow what I've done and you may o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

11 Top book club books like Out of the Forest by Gregory P. Smith

Transform Your Habits

Dirt Music

Tim Winton

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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12 Top nonfiction books like Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent by Gregory Smith

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

Heather Rose

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

4.44

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