Best 'Australia' Non-Fiction Books

1.
In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,169 ratings
2.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
3.
Kings in Grass Castles
Kings in Grass Castles 3.78 avg rating — 534 ratings
4.
Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly's Mother
Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly's Mother 4.21 avg rating — 483 ratings
5.
Dark Emu
Dark Emu 4.28 avg rating — 15,490 ratings
6.
Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda
Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda 4.36 avg rating — 295 ratings
7.
Working Class Boy (Working Class Boy, #1)
Working Class Boy (Working Class Boy, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 4,956 ratings
7.
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
9.
Working Class Man (Working Class Boy, #2)
Working Class Man (Working Class Boy, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
10.
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery 3.21 avg rating — 327 ratings
11.
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
12.
My Journey
My Journey 4.19 avg rating — 436 ratings
13.
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
14.
Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse
Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse 4.29 avg rating — 722 ratings
15.
CSI Told You Lies
CSI Told You Lies 3.81 avg rating — 750 ratings
16.
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race 4.17 avg rating — 680 ratings
17.
The Silver Moon: Reflections on Life, Death and Writing
The Silver Moon: Reflections on Life, Death and Writing 3.94 avg rating — 365 ratings
18.
Kokoda
Kokoda 4.28 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
18.
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings
18.
The girls they left behind
The girls they left behind 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
21.
Kokoda
Kokoda
by: Paul Ham
4.29 avg rating — 287 ratings
21.
Bush bashers
Bush bashers 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
21.
Botany Bay: The Real Story
Botany Bay: The Real Story 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
24.
The Lost Battlefield of Kokoda
The Lost Battlefield of Kokoda 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
24.
Bush Tracks and Desert Horizons
Bush Tracks and Desert Horizons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
24.
The thirty-niners
The thirty-niners 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
27.
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands 3.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
27.
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog 4.21 avg rating — 237 ratings
27.
A Land Half Won
A Land Half Won 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
30.
Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero
Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
30.
A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne 4.02 avg rating — 83 ratings
30.
The Lucky Country
The Lucky Country 3.69 avg rating — 673 ratings
33.
Beating About the Bush
Beating About the Bush 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
33.
Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne
Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne 3.85 avg rating — 155 ratings
33.
Cooper's Creek
Cooper's Creek 3.83 avg rating — 523 ratings
36.
Too Long in the Bush
Too Long in the Bush 4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings
36.
Stillways: A Memoir
Stillways: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
38.
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua 4.33 avg rating — 166 ratings
38.
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography 3.78 avg rating — 963 ratings
38.
The Bastard from the Bush
The Bastard from the Bush 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
41.
The Missing Beaumont Children: 50 Years of Mystery and Misery
The Missing Beaumont Children: 50 Years of Mystery and Misery 3.78 avg rating — 175 ratings
41.
Tam the Untamed
Tam the Untamed 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
41.
Melbourne (The City Series)
Melbourne (The City Series) 3.56 avg rating — 326 ratings
41.
Intruders in the bush: The Australian quest for identity
Intruders in the bush: The Australian quest for identity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
45.
The Satin Man: Uncovering the Mystery of the Missing Beaumont Children
The Satin Man: Uncovering the Mystery of the Missing Beaumont Children 3.64 avg rating — 215 ratings
45.
Ajax the Warrior
Ajax the Warrior 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
45.
Australian women at war
Australian women at war 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
48.
The Railway Dog: The True Story of an Australian Outback Dog
The Railway Dog: The True Story of an Australian Outback Dog 4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings
48.
Beyond the Ladies' Lounge: Australian Women Publicans
Beyond the Ladies' Lounge: Australian Women Publicans 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
50.
Lasseter's Gold
Lasseter's Gold 4.20 avg rating — 70 ratings
50.
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
50.
Colonel William Light Founder of a City
Colonel William Light Founder of a City 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
53.
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen 4.21 avg rating — 669 ratings
53.
The Happiest Refugee
The Happiest Refugee
by: Anh Do
4.24 avg rating — 17,442 ratings
53.
Tough times: Australia in the seventies
Tough times: Australia in the seventies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
56.
Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916 3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
56.
Anglicans in Australia
Anglicans in Australia
by: Tom Frame
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
58.
Lucky For Me
Lucky For Me 3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
58.
Invading Australia: Japan And The Battle For Australia 1942
Invading Australia: Japan And The Battle For Australia 1942 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
60.
From The Ground Up
From The Ground Up really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
60.
Lucky Goes to Sea
Lucky Goes to Sea 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
60.
Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession (Redback Quarterly #4)
Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession (Redback Quarterly #4) 4.18 avg rating — 179 ratings
63.
Tobruk
Tobruk 4.25 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
63.
Unpolished Gem
Unpolished Gem 3.61 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
63.
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia 3.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
66.
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land 4.19 avg rating — 314 ratings
66.
Alice Springs
Alice Springs 3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings
66.
Depends What You Mean By Extremist
Depends What You Mean By Extremist 3.93 avg rating — 1,576 ratings
69.
Hell's Gates: The Terrible Journey of Alexander Pearce, Van Diemen's Land Cannibal
Hell's Gates: The Terrible Journey of Alexander Pearce, Van Diemen's Land Cannibal 3.71 avg rating — 62 ratings
69.
Life As I Know It
Life As I Know It 4.12 avg rating — 382 ratings
69.
Shutdown: The Failure of Economic Rationalism and How to Rescue Australia
Shutdown: The Failure of Economic Rationalism and How to Rescue Australia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
72.
Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend
Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 4.13 avg rating — 713 ratings
72.
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
72.
Winners and Losers: The pursuit of social justice in Australian history
Winners and Losers: The pursuit of social justice in Australian history liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
75.
In Search of Hobart
In Search of Hobart 3.80 avg rating — 111 ratings
75.
The confident years: Australia in the twenties
The confident years: Australia in the twenties 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
77.
Flinders: The Man who Mapped Australia
Flinders: The Man who Mapped Australia 4.23 avg rating — 445 ratings
77.
Adelaide
Adelaide 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings
77.
Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture
Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
80.
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese War Criminals Go Free
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese War Criminals Go Free 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
80.
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
80.
Spies, Bombs & the Path of Bliss
Spies, Bombs & the Path of Bliss really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
83.
The Cruel City: Is Adelaide the Murder Capital of Australia?
The Cruel City: Is Adelaide the Murder Capital of Australia? 3.37 avg rating — 99 ratings
83.
Canberra
Canberra 3.62 avg rating — 109 ratings
85.
Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians, #1)
Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 243 ratings
85.
Brisbane (The City Series)
Brisbane (The City Series) 3.45 avg rating — 145 ratings
87.
Gold Fever A Rollicking History of the Australian Goldrush
Gold Fever A Rollicking History of the Australian Goldrush 2.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
87.
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
89.
Australian Outlaw: The True Story of Postcard Bandit Brenden Abbott
Australian Outlaw: The True Story of Postcard Bandit Brenden Abbott 3.91 avg rating — 125 ratings
89.
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
91.
Pacific Fury: How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese
Pacific Fury: How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings
91.
Fifteen Young Men
Fifteen Young Men 4.10 avg rating — 82 ratings
93.
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women 3.68 avg rating — 887 ratings
93.
The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
by: Guy Hull
3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings
95.
The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier 4.22 avg rating — 863 ratings
95.
Darwin
Darwin
by: Tess Lea
3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings
97.
The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill: The Australian behind the legendary stories The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky
The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill: The Australian behind the legendary stories The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
97.
We of the Never-Never
We of the Never-Never 3.66 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
99.
Heroic Australian Women of War
Heroic Australian Women of War 4.41 avg rating — 69 ratings
99.
Missing in Action: Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Missing in Action: Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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