22 must-read nonfiction books like The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton

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The Privileged Few

By: Clive Hamilton

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace

1. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

By: David Foster Wallace

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more

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Cover of How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

2. How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: Alain de Botton

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more

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"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

Cover of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David  Brooks

3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Cover of Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos

4. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

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Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Cover of Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird

6. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

7. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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9. 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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"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

Cover of Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva

10. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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Cover of Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

11. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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Cover of The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

12. The School of Life: An Emotional Education

By: Alain de Botton

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more

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13. 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

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"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

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14. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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15. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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

16. 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

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Cover of The Work by Bri Lee

17. 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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18. Saltblood

By: Francesca De Tores

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mot… read more

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Cover of A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life by Alain de Botton

19. A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

By: Alain de Botton

4.04

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compas… read more

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Cover of The School: The ups and downs of one year in the classroom by Brendan James Murray

20. The School: The ups and downs of one year in the classroom

By: Brendan James Murray

4.49

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

One teacher. One school. One year. Brendan James Murray has been a high school teacher for more … read more

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Cover of Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Stephen Minter #1) by Steven  Carroll

21. Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Stephen Minter #1)

By: Steven Carroll

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a ser… read more

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22. The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening

By: Hugh Mackay

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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Cover of The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself by Nick Bryant

23. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

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Cover of Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston

24. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

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Cover of Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85) by Sarah Krasnostein

25. Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)

By: Sarah Krasnostein

4.16

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic… read more

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Cover of Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover

26. Repeat: A Warning from History

By: Dennis Glover

4.54

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Are we about to see history repeat?'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' —S… read more

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27. The Privileged Few

By: Clive Hamilton

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

28. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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29. Juice

By: Tim Winton

4.15

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as… read more

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3.82

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