Best of Australian Non-Fiction

1.
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee 4.26 avg rating — 4,073 ratings
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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
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People 4.20 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Dark Emu
Dark Emu 4.28 avg rating — 15,490 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,164 ratings
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My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
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Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia 4.32 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Kings in Grass Castles
Kings in Grass Castles 3.78 avg rating — 534 ratings
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A Fortunate Life
A Fortunate Life 4.25 avg rating — 9,642 ratings
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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
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The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia 4.14 avg rating — 737 ratings
12.
Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1) 3.94 avg rating — 6,328 ratings
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We of the Never-Never
We of the Never-Never 3.66 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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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
15.
Crime & Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System (Redback Quarterly #5)
Crime & Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System (Redback Quarterly #5) 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings
16.
Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and Memories
Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and Memories 4.16 avg rating — 197 ratings
17.
Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law 4.09 avg rating — 6,776 ratings
18.
Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact 4.06 avg rating — 261 ratings
19.
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM 4.29 avg rating — 472 ratings
20.
Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia
Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia 3.94 avg rating — 83 ratings
21.
The Land Before Avocado
The Land Before Avocado 3.91 avg rating — 4,199 ratings
22.
My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes]
My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
23.
Black Widow: the True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer
Black Widow: the True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer 3.61 avg rating — 84 ratings
24.
Hell West and Crooked
Hell West and Crooked
by: Tom Cole
4.26 avg rating — 379 ratings
25.
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work 4.29 avg rating — 230 ratings
26.
Million Wild Acres
Million Wild Acres 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings
27.
Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World
Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World
by: Jane Caro
3.92 avg rating — 257 ratings
28.
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
29.
Don't Take Your Love to Town
Don't Take Your Love to Town 3.93 avg rating — 257 ratings
30.
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
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Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance (Redback Quarterly #6)
Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance (Redback Quarterly #6) 3.92 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Cooper's Creek
Cooper's Creek 3.83 avg rating — 523 ratings
33.
An Economy Is Not A Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia (Redback Quarterly #7)
An Economy Is Not A Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia (Redback Quarterly #7) 3.67 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Australia Felix
Australia Felix 3.73 avg rating — 150 ratings
35.
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia 3.68 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia 3.92 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Bearbrass: Imagining early Melbourne
Bearbrass: Imagining early Melbourne 3.85 avg rating — 155 ratings
38.
True North: A Memoir
True North: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
39.
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
40.
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
41.
What's Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Australian History
What's Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Australian History 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
42.
The Letters of Rachel Henning
The Letters of Rachel Henning 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
43.
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
44.
Melbourne (The City Series)
Melbourne (The City Series) 3.56 avg rating — 326 ratings
45.
Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians, #1)
Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 243 ratings
46.
Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia
Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
46.
Australia Through the Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction, 1830-1980
Australia Through the Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction, 1830-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
48.
Forgotten War
Forgotten War 4.26 avg rating — 293 ratings
49.
Nothing But Gold: The Diggers of 1852
Nothing But Gold: The Diggers of 1852 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
50.
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
51.
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History 3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
52.
Bush Tracks and Desert Horizons
Bush Tracks and Desert Horizons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
52.
Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
by: Editia
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
52.
Tracy
Tracy 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings
52.
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft 4.29 avg rating — 103 ratings
52.
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World 4.36 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
52.
Hazelwood
Hazelwood
by: Tom Doig
4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
52.
A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future
A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
52.
The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities
The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
52.
A bluey of swaggies
A bluey of swaggies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
52.
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Growing Up Disabled in Australia 4.37 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
52.
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef 4.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
63.
The Drownings' Argument
The Drownings' Argument 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
63.
Campervan Kama Sutra - Outback Australia, with a camper trailer, three kids and a dog*
Campervan Kama Sutra - Outback Australia, with a camper trailer, three kids and a dog* 3.52 avg rating — 133 ratings
63.
The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia
The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia 3.68 avg rating — 88 ratings
63.
Outsider Art in Australia
Outsider Art in Australia 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
63.
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia 4.48 avg rating — 637 ratings
63.
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,489 ratings
63.
Conscription; the Australian debate, 1901-1970;
Conscription; the Australian debate, 1901-1970;
by: J. M Main
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
63.
Boys whistle, girls sing: Sexism in children's books (Primary language ideabooks)
Boys whistle, girls sing: Sexism in children's books (Primary language ideabooks) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
63.
Growing Up Queer in Australia
Growing Up Queer in Australia 4.28 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
72.
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka 3.99 avg rating — 377 ratings
72.
Too Long in the Bush
Too Long in the Bush 4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings
72.
The Scarlet Thread
The Scarlet Thread 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
72.
Australia Under Surveillance: How should we act?
Australia Under Surveillance: How should we act? 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
72.
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place 4.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
72.
Seven Sisters Illustrated Edition: Messages from Aboriginal Australia
Seven Sisters Illustrated Edition: Messages from Aboriginal Australia 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
72.
The Believer
The Believer 3.64 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
72.
Working Australia
Working Australia 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
72.
Hands up!: Who enjoyed their schooldays
Hands up!: Who enjoyed their schooldays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
81.
Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890
Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
81.
Beating About the Bush
Beating About the Bush 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
81.
Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases
Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases 3.44 avg rating — 48 ratings
81.
White Beech: The Rainforest Years
White Beech: The Rainforest Years 3.44 avg rating — 190 ratings
81.
In the Middle of Nowhere
In the Middle of Nowhere 4.01 avg rating — 164 ratings
81.
Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race
Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
81.
Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression
Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
81.
The Overlanders
The Overlanders really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
89.
Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
89.
Regal Realm: A World Champion's Story
Regal Realm: A World Champion's Story 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
89.
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
89.
Dingo the Story of Our Mob
Dingo the Story of Our Mob 3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings
89.
The Inked-In Image: A Social and Historical Survey of Australian Comic Art
The Inked-In Image: A Social and Historical Survey of Australian Comic Art really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
89.
Stern Justice: The Forgotten Story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes Trials
Stern Justice: The Forgotten Story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes Trials 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
89.
No Charity There: A short history of social welfare in Australia
No Charity There: A short history of social welfare in Australia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
96.
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
96.
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography 3.78 avg rating — 963 ratings
96.
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
by: Jim Eames
3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
96.
From strength to strength
From strength to strength 3.88 avg rating — 472 ratings
96.
Great Australian Urban Myths REV Ed
Great Australian Urban Myths REV Ed liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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