9 must-read biography books like Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia by E. Fuller Torrey, Anne Deveson

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Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia

By: E. Fuller Torrey , Anne Deveson

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, and a founder of the National Schizophrenia Australia Organization,…

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1. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane

By: Elspeth Muir

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother, Alexander, finished his last university exam and went out … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. The Death of Bunny Munro

By: Nick Cave

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Set adrift by his wife's sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does th… read more

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5. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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6. Prozac Nation

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to li… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
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7. Between a Wolf and a Dog

By: Georgia Blain

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle cl… read more

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8. Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia

By: E. Fuller Torrey , Anne Deveson

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, and a founder of the National Schizophrenia Australia Organization,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • science

9. The Good People

By: Hannah Kent

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller [that] t… read more

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10. The Children of Men

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more

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11. Looking for Alibrandi

By: Melina Marchetta

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. … read more

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12. The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality

By: Georgia Blain

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her… read more

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13. Jasper Jones

By: Craig Silvey

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more

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14. Goodwood

By: Holly Throsby

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It wasn't just one person who went missing, it was two people. Two very different people. They were… read more

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15. No Time Like the Past (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #5)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jodi Taylor's best-selling series The Chronicles of St Mary is back with a bang... St Mary's has be… read more

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16. 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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17. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
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19. 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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20. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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21. 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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22. The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

4.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

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23. 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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24. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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26. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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  • mental health
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27. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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  • mental illness
  • mental health
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28. The Daughter's Tale

By: Armando Lucas Correa

3.73

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are… read more

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29. My Brilliant Sister

By: Amy Brown

3.42

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life … read more

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30. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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31. How to Be Second Best

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.89

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A hilarious and heart-warming debut that captures the dramas, delights and delirium of modern paren… read more

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"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"You won't get rid of him that easily. Troy will live a long and annoying life. People like him always do."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"Lola is a sociopath in a children's book and TV series, sister of Charlie, one of the great long-suffering brothers of literature."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

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