9 must-read nonfiction books like Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson

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Constellations

By: Sinéad Gleeson

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, …

"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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2. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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3. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • feminism
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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4. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Feeney's How to Build a Boat book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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5. As Pequenas Chances

By: Natalia Timerman

3.86

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Enquanto aguarda um voo, Natalia encontra o médico de cuidados paliativos que atendeu seu pai Artur… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Timerman's As Pequenas Chances book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • nonfiction
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6. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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7. Nightbloom

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's Nightbloom book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • audiobook
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8. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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9. A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.04

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more

Similar categories in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

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10. Cacophony of Bone

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway… read more

Similar categories in Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Cacophony of Bone book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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11. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

Similar categories in Emilie Pine's Ruth & Pen book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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12. My Hot Friend

By: Sophie White

4.11

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Lexi is on top of the world The podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratosp… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's My Hot Friend book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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13. Constellations

By: Sinéad Gleeson

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

"Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability"

-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

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14. Mole Creek

By: James Dunbar

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A hellish war. A deadly secret. Fifty years on, in a small Tasmanian town, the truth unfolds and th… read more

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15. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jamie's Cairn book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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17. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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18. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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19. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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20. La escritura como un cuchillo

By: Annie Ernaux

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Durante un año, aproximadamente, sin una regularidad fija, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet le envió a Annie E… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's La escritura como un cuchillo book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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21. Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

By: Caroline Magennis

4.02

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Magennis's Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women book and Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations

  • feminism
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

How to Build a Boat

Elaine Feeney

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Breakdown

Cathy Sweeney

3.81

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Danielle Pender

3.69

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Claire Kilroy

4.10

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