8 must-read nonfiction books like The House of Lies: A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all by Renee McBryde

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The House of Lies: A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all

By: Renee McBryde

4.26

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

AS SEEN ON 60 MINUTESThis compelling memoir of family secrets, murder, sexual assault and domestic …

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1. 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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2. 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
  • memoir
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3. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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4. 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
  • memoir
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5. 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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6. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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9. The Wrong Woman

By: J.P. Pomare

3.96

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappe… read more

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10. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Heartstrong

By: Ellidy Pullin

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'If not with you, then for you.' 'It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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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 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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14. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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15. 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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"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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16. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

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"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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17. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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18. I Give my Marriage a Year

By: Holly Wainwright

3.58

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to save your marriage? Lou and Josh have been together for 14 years. They s… read more

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19. The Widow of Walcha

By: Emma Partridge

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia

By: Mark Tedeschi

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The House of Lies: A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all

By: Renee McBryde

4.26

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

AS SEEN ON 60 MINUTESThis compelling memoir of family secrets, murder, sexual assault and domestic … read more

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  • memoir

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4.13

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Heather Rose

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4.14

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4.41

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3.91

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