13 must-read nonfiction books like Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles

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Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

By: Caro Giles

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Nor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • audiobook
Cover of Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe

2. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jones's Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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5. Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

By: Caro Giles

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Nor… read more

Similar categories in Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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6. Thin Places

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

3.83

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more

Similar categories in Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Thin Places book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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7. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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8. 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 Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • audiobook
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9. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Cover of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May

10. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Cover of All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden by Victoria Bennett

11. All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden

By: Victoria Bennett

4.46

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate weaving of memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of rewilding our … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Bennett's All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks

12. 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 Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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13. The Art of Falling

By: Danielle McLaughlin

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this "delicate slow burn of a novel" (Jan Carson), a woman's marriage and career are threatened … read more

Similar categories in Danielle McLaughlin's The Art of Falling book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • audiobook
Cover of Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent

14. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
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15. The Space Between Us

By: Doug Johnstone

3.86

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more

Similar categories in Doug Johnstone's The Space Between Us book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • audiobook
Cover of Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

16. 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 Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
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17. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • audiobook
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18. The Cure for Sleep

By: Tanya Shadrick

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-d… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Shadrick's The Cure for Sleep book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"And what a thing a book is! How far it can travel, like a seed that carries on a wing or the wind to germinate in another time and place."

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"Oh it is appalling what the body can endure. Its will to live, despite such damage. Our hearts lacking the rabbit’s rare capacity to simply stop and spare us from suffering."

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no cer…"

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"I was in love with myself, there by the water, but not like Narcissus, unheeding of others. Instead, feeling so at home in my body freed my attention to turn outwards, fully and forever. We are taugh…"

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

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19. Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place

By: Jade Angeles Fitton

4.11

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

' I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experience… read more

Similar categories in Jade Angeles Fitton's Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding by Joanna Wolfarth

21. Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By: Joanna Wolfarth

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mo… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Wolfarth's Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding book and Caro Giles's Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

  • nonfiction

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

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3.66

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Lucy Jones

4.54

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4.10

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3.77

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Callum McSorley

4.10

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Jo Callaghan

4.22

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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