6 Top nonfiction books like Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen by Ellen Coyne

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Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen

By: Ellen Coyne

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Is it possible to be young, progressive, and a Catholic? Ellen Coyne is about to find out… ‘You kn…

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1. The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

3.13

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

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2. Burial Rites

By: Hannah Kent

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more

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3. The Lessons

By: Naomi Alderman

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few wh… read more

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4. Asking For It

By: Louise O'Neill

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more

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  • irish literature

5. Unraveling Oliver

By: Liz Nugent

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her." So begins Liz Nugent's astonishing debut … read more

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6. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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7. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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8. The Outsider

By: Jane Casey

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

He came to destroy the family. Now he’s the one in danger. As an undercover police officer, Rob … read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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10. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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12. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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15. Idol

By: Louise O'Neill

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more

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  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"

-Louise O'Neill, Idol

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16. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Grown Ups

By: Marian Keyes

3.94

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beauti… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable."

-Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

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18. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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19. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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  • audiobook
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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21. There's Something I Have to Tell You

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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23. People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more

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  • audiobook
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24. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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26. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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27. Boys Don't Cry

By: Fíona Scarlett

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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28. A Girl Is a Body of Water

By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4.15

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more

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"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

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29. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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30. There's Been a Little Incident

By: Alice Ryan

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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31. Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen

By: Ellen Coyne

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Is it possible to be young, progressive, and a Catholic? Ellen Coyne is about to find out… ‘You kn… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook

25 best-selling audiobook books like Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen by Ellen Coyne

Transform Your Habits

The Gathering

Anne Enright

3.13

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Outsider

Jane Casey

4.09

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19 Best fiction books like Idol by Louise O'Neill

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Bookseller

Alice Slater

3.48

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Idol

Louise O'Neill

3.58

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