7 Top biography books like True Friends by Patti Miller

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True Friends

By: Patti Miller

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Friendships are among the most important relationships in our lives, often outlasting love affairs,…

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1. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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2. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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3. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. The Lovers

By: Yumna Kassab

2.95

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other… read more

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6. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. 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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8. 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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"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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9. Bedtime Story

By: Chloe Hooper

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again."

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"You know that grief cannot be avoided. And that when it finds a person, they might look the same but they're changed: their missing person has altered the atmosphere in the house, the classroom, the …"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failur…"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

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10. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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11. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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12. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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14. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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15. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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16. Wild Place

By: Christian White

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia.… read more

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17. 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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18. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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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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  • nonfiction
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20. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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21. Hydra

By: Adriane Howell

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century … read more

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22. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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23. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

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  • psychology
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24. Infidelity and Other Affairs

By: Kate Legge

3.38

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your ow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. 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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26. Scrubbed

By: Nikki Stamp

3.98

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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27. Ghost Cities

By: Siang Lu

3.91

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narrative… read more

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28. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
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29. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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30. True Friends

By: Patti Miller

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Friendships are among the most important relationships in our lives, often outlasting love affairs,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
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31. The Oxenbridge King

By: Christine Paice

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a… read more

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