10 must-read nonfiction books like In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams

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In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

By: Niall Williams

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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2. China Court: The Hours of a Country House

By: Rumer Godden

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

For more than half a century, Rumer Godden has been known as one of the finest and subtlest writers… read more

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3. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

By: Anne Lamott

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

4. First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton

By: David Maraniss

4.26

Format: 91 pages,

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5. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

By: Ruth Reichl

3.00

Format: 1118 pages,

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticula… read more

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6. The Sea

By: John Banville

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more

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7. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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8. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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9. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22) book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • audiobook
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10. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

Similar categories in Judi Dench's Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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11. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • audiobook
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12. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

By: Anne Lamott

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Look around and see whom you can serve."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

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13. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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14. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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15. Life in the Garden

By: Penelope Lively

3.58

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen… read more

Similar categories in Penelope Lively's Life in the Garden book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulo…"

-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden

"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in an…"

-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden

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16. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin

17. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story by Marc Hamer

18. Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

By: Marc Hamer

4.37

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it – it is like a book and everybody who visits it will fin… read more

Similar categories in Marc Hamer's Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We each have a space that fits us, all our darks and lights; and when we leave, the space lasts for a while, then slowly closes up, changing shape as it does, and we are mostly forgotten. I have forg…"

-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

"For a few days, uncertain about what I should do next, I go for walks and watch television. The walking is good, but the television leaves me feeling hopeless and worthless. The vile psychopaths it w…"

-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

"When a song is ended, it leaves nothing but a feeling in those who heard it until that feeling, slowly moving backwards in time, collapses under pressure from more recent feelings and is replaced. Ev…"

-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

"A Sikh told me once that everyone was a flower in the Lord God's garden - all the individuals, the colours and races, tribes and religions; it was an idea that I fell in love with, and kept coming ba…"

-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

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19. So Many Miles to Paradise: From Clare to There

By: Christine Breen

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

So Many Miles to Paradise is the engaging, inspirational account of a 9 month trip around-the-world… read more

Similar categories in Christine Breen's So Many Miles to Paradise: From Clare to There book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams

20. In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

By: Niall Williams

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a… read more

Similar categories in Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

21. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

Similar categories in Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat book and Niall Williams's In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

  • audiobook

13 must-read audiobook books like In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench

4.56

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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