11 must-read biography books like Dancing with Demons by Tim Watson-Munro

Cover of Dancing with Demons by Tim Watson-Munro

Dancing with Demons

By: Tim Watson-Munro

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary memoir of a man who has spent his working life looking into the eyes of modern ev…

If you liked the biography plot in Dancing with Demons by Tim Watson-Munro , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. This House of Grief

By: Helen Garner

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's This House of Grief book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. Written on the Skin

By: Liz Porter

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at … read more

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3. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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4. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

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5. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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7. Mr Einstein's Secretary

By: Matthew Reilly

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more

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"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

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8. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's The Nowhere Child book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • crime
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9. Badness

By: Gary Jubelin

4.08

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's Badness book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Gary Jubelin

10. I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

By: Gary Jubelin

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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11. 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

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

Cover of Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93) by Lech Blaine

12. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)

By: Lech Blaine

4.17

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more

Similar categories in Lech Blaine's Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93) book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

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

13. 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

Similar categories in Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
"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

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14. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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15. Australia Day

By: Stan Grant

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea… read more

Similar categories in Stan Grant's Australia Day book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."

-Stan Grant, Australia Day

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16. Gun To The Head: My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath.

By: Keith Banks

4.58

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath. From the bestselling author of Drugs, Guns… read more

Similar categories in Keith Banks's Gun To The Head: My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath. book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen

17. Witches: What Women Do Together

By: Sam George-Allen

3.72

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Covens. Girl bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come to… read more

Similar categories in Sam George-Allen's Witches: What Women Do Together book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
"If you tell me I am just my flesh and blood than I will make magic out of it"

-Sam George-Allen, Witches: What Women Do Together

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18. The Cop Who Fell to Earth

By: Craig Semple

4.64

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Before eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he was someo… read more

Similar categories in Craig Semple's The Cop Who Fell to Earth book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Dancing with Demons by Tim Watson-Munro

19. Dancing with Demons

By: Tim Watson-Munro

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary memoir of a man who has spent his working life looking into the eyes of modern ev… read more

Similar categories in Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Do As I Say: How Cults Control, Why We Join Them, and What They Teach Us About Bullying, Abuse and Coercion by Sarah Steel

20. Do As I Say: How Cults Control, Why We Join Them, and What They Teach Us About Bullying, Abuse and Coercion

By: Sarah Steel

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the m… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Steel's Do As I Say: How Cults Control, Why We Join Them, and What They Teach Us About Bullying, Abuse and Coercion book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • nonfiction
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21. 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

Similar categories in Christian White's The Ledge book and Tim Watson-Munro's Dancing with Demons

  • crime

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This House of Grief

Helen Garner

3.00

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

4.10

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The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Badness

Gary Jubelin

4.08

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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

Paul Carter

3.86

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A Mother's Story

Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty

3.86

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I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

Gary Jubelin

4.15

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Tim Booth

3.98

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