5 must-read nonfiction books like Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice by Jessica White

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Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice

By: Jessica White

4.00

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Hearing Maud: a Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author’s exp…

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1. Burial Rites

By: Hannah Kent

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more

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2. The Spare Room

By: Helen Garner

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the othe… read more

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3. 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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  • australia
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4. 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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  • australia
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5. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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6. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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7. 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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8. 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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  • australia
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9. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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10. 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

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11. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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13. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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14. That Bligh Girl

By: Sue Williams

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A fascinating story of Governor Bligh's trouble-making daughter, Mary, a powerful and determined wo… read more

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  • australia
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15. Consolation (Hirsch, #3)

By: Garry Disher

4.16

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is steal… read more

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16. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

By: Megan Phelps-Roper

4.16

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

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17. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

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18. Loud

By: Tana Douglas

3.93

Format: 352 pages, ebook

'Douglas's story is a rock history time capsule and a journey of self-discovery all at once.' ROLLI… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Huda and Me

By: H. Hayek

4.03

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Huda's sitting in the airport lounge, fiddling with our tickets. I can tell she's excited because s… read more

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20. Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice

By: Jessica White

4.00

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Hearing Maud: a Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author’s exp… read more

Similar categories in Jessica White's Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice book and Jessica White's Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • disability
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21. Dusk

By: Robbie Arnott

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris … read more

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Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Hannah Kent

3.87

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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4.21

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4.41

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Pip Williams

4.07

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4.13

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