16 best-selling nonfiction books like Recovering by Richie Sadlier

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Recovering

By: Richie Sadlier

4.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from foot…

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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.72

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more

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"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

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2. The Woman Who Stole My Life

By: Marian Keyes

3.57

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

Stella Sweeney is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year - touring her self-… read more

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3. Open

By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"Control what you can control."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"The most animated talks we have are about…things"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

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4. The Second Half

By: Roddy Doyle , Roy Keane

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of Manchester United and Ir… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

5. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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6. It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

By: Suzanne O'Sullivan

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Even if medical tests cannot explain your pain or tiredness or disability, it does not lessen your… read more

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7. The Break

By: Marian Keyes

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Amy's husband Hugh isn't really leaving her. At least, that's what he promises. He is just taking a… read more

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8. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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9. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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10. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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11. 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

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12. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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13. 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

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"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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14. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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15. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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16. 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

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17. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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18. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

By: Simon Kuper

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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19. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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21. Champagne Football: The Rise and Fall of John Delaney and the Football Association of Ireland

By: Mark Tighe

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own p… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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22. 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

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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23. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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24. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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25. Tiger Woods

By: Jeff Benedict

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfat… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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26. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

By: Roddy Collins

4.28

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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27. The Trap

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.61

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: … read more

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28. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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29. Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices

By: Keith Earls

4.35

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

  ★ AN POST IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER! ★ Fight Or My Life, My Choices is the autob… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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30. Recovering

By: Richie Sadlier

4.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from foot… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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31. The Choice

By: Philly McMahon

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

When Dublin footballer Philly McMahon lost his older brother John in 2012, it brought to an end a p… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

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4.06

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4.10

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3.96

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