27 Top australia books like How We Love: Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford

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How We Love: Notes on a Life

By: Clementine Ford

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author …

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1. 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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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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2. 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
  • audiobook
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3. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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  • feminism
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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7. 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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  • biography
  • love
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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8. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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9. How We Love: Notes on a Life

By: Clementine Ford

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • love
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. The Space Between

By: Michelle Andrews

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Emotional Female

By: Yumiko Kadota

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. 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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  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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18. 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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  • feminism
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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19. Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge

By: Bri Lee

3.65

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • essays
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"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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24. 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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  • audiobook
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25. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

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26. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

By: Anita Heiss

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning au… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • australia
  • audiobook
"We’ve never been alone, and we have each other. Not everyone gets everything, and we are so lucky for so much. I’m learning my place, my responsibilities."

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

"I love that I’ve been lucky enough to travel to every Australian city and work with some of the best, most forward-thinking individuals, and coach many to extraordinary feats. I love the friendships …"

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

"P.S. I truly love every square inch of Australia. I look forward to when we realise that this country is our giver of life and will survive long after we have passed on. Maybe, then, we will each cho…"

-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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27. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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28. Heartsick

By: Jessie Stephens

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we respect. And so we are left in the middle of th… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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29. The Most Important Job in the World

By: Gina Rushton

4.10

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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30. My Year Of Living Vulnerably

By: Rick Morton

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of D… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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31. Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship

By: Gyan Yankovich

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decad… read more

Similar categories in Gyan Yankovich's Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship book and Clementine Ford's How We Love: Notes on a Life

  • nonfiction
  • essays

30 must-read audiobook books like How We Love: Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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