5 Best nonfiction books like On Mother by Sarah Ferguson

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On Mother

By: Sarah Ferguson

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Ferguson’s homage to her mother A mother’s love over decades and across continents. The sudd…

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1. The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power

By: Helen Garner

4.27

Format: 24 pages,

In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming… read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Doc

By: Mary Doria Russell

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hop… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

4. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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5. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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6. 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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  • audiobook
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7. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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  • 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • death
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10. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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11. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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12. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • family
Cover of Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales

13. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • nonfiction
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14. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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15. To Be a Man: Stories

By: Nicole Krauss

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to… read more

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  • audiobook
"One day I saw it: how she looked back at the man that j the business suit who stood across a subway car from her, burning a hole through her with his eyes. Her stare was a challenge."

-Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man: Stories

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16. 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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  • audiobook
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17. Between You and Me

By: Joanna Horton

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. On Mother

By: Sarah Ferguson

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Ferguson’s homage to her mother A mother’s love over decades and across continents. The sudd… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ferguson's On Mother book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • family
  • audiobook
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20. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

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  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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21. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda 'Froomes' Price's All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot book and Sarah Ferguson's On Mother

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

16 Top audiobook books like On Mother by Sarah Ferguson

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Mary Doria Russell

3.33

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

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4.21

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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Naomi Alderman

3.81

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird

3.89

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Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

Leigh Sales

3.88

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Best Wishes

Richard Glover

3.81

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