7 Best nonfiction books like Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

Cover of Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

Country Girl

By: Edna O'Brien

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Country Girlis Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.…

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Cover of Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

1. Chronicles, Volume One

By: Bob Dylan

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"People were people."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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2. Dead Silence (Doc Ford, #16)

By: Randy Wayne White

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Imagine the worst that can happen. Then imagine again. The stunning new Doc Ford novel by the New Y… read more

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Cover of Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

3. Country Girl

By: Edna O'Brien

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Country Girlis Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

4. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more

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5. Nora Webster

By: Colm Tóibín

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more

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6. Emerald City

By: Jennifer Egan

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

The theme of longing in all its forms-for change, for redemption, for travel outside the bounds of … read more

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7. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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8. The Gustav Sonata

By: Rose Tremain

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War see… read more

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9. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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11. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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12. A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

4.02

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more

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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"

-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace

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13. The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

By: Alexia Casale

3.70

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hid… read more

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"We’re not fools for wanting love, only for lying to ourselves about whether we’ve found it"

-Alexia Casale, The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

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14. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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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15. 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
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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16. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

By: Katja Oskamp

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more

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  • biography memoir
"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"

-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

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17. Just Because

By: Matthew McConaughey

4.09

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matt… read more

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18. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kenyon's Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania book and Edna O'Brien's Country Girl

  • nonfiction
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19. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen

20. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

By: Robert Matzen

3.85

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It m…"

-Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

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21. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

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"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

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