8 must-read nonfiction books like The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

1. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • 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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • australia
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • audiobook
"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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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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • religion
  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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7. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Julia Baird's Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. 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

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Best Wishes

By: Richard Glover

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time. Do you hate gambling ads, pre-r… read more

Similar categories in Richard Glover's Best Wishes book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

Similar categories in David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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12. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Conversion book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

Similar categories in Indira Naidoo's The Space Between the Stars book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • australia
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler

15. 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

Similar categories in Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • islam
  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • medieval
  • iran
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Kate Mildenhall's The Hummingbird Effect book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2) by Amanda  Hampson

17. The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series,… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2) book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • historical
  • australia
  • 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

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The House That Joy Built book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.03

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more

Similar categories in Grantlee Kieza's The Remarkable Mrs Reibey book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. Ghost Cities

By: Siang Lu

3.91

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narrative… read more

Similar categories in Siang Lu's Ghost Cities book and Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

  • australia
  • audiobook

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