27 must-read audiobook books like The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud

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The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of…

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1. Work Strife Balance

By: Mia Freedman

4.03

Format: None pages, ebook

"Whenever women are honest about their struggles, they give other women a gift. Mia delivers." Eliz… read more

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2. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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5. 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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  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
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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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  • australia
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • teaching
  • death
  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • education
  • audiobook
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10. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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14. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Crows Nest

By: Nikki Mottram

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job i… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The House That Joy Built

By: Holly Ringland

3.88

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Eleventh Floor: a darkly compelling and twisty psychological drama from a talented new Australian author. Perfect for readers who love SALLY HEPWORTH, PIP DRYSDALE and ADELE PARKS by Kylie Orr

20. The Eleventh Floor: a darkly compelling and twisty psychological drama from a talented new Australian author. Perfect for readers who love SALLY HEPWORTH, PIP DRYSDALE and ADELE PARKS

By: Kylie Orr

3.65

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The view is a killer ... Darkly compelling and twisty psychological drama from a talented new Austr… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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22. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. The Opposite of Success

By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas

3.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Days Toppled Over

By: Vidya Madabushi

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Malli has an anxiety disorder that renders her unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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25. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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26. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Sidelines

By: Karen Viggers

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemp… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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29. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Last Trace

By: Petronella McGovern

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six … read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Girl Falling

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

25 Best fiction books like The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Prima Facie

Suzie Miller

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

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21 Best fiction books like What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

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Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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