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Explore 24 books like Constraints by Steffan Triplett — a handpicked selection united by Essays, Literary Collections, Personal Memoirs, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Still Writing The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life — Dani Shapiro

Still Writing The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Whatever It Took An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II — Henry Langrehr

Whatever It Took An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

I’ll Fly Away Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison — Wally Lamb

I’ll Fly Away Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Roughing It Originally Illustrated — Mark Twain

Roughing It Originally Illustrated

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters — Ursula K. Le Guin

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Take My Name But Say It Slow Essays — Thomas Dai

Take My Name But Say It Slow Essays

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Story of a Secret State My Report to the World — Jan Karski

Story of a Secret State My Report to the World

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Performance — Ruth Ivo

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The Book of (more) Delights — Ross Gay

The Book of (more) Delights

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 — Joyce Carol Oates

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

One Life My Mother’s Story — Kate Grenville

One Life My Mother’s Story

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The Anthropocene Reviewed Essays on a Human-Centered Planet — John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For — Henry Thoreau

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

She’s Nice Though Essays on Being Bad at Being Good — Mia Mercado

She’s Nice Though Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

I Finally Bought Some Jordans Essays — Michael Arceneaux

I Finally Bought Some Jordans Essays

Michael Arceneaux

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love — Haruki Murakami

Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Amateur Circus Life A New Method Of Physical Development For Boys And Girls (1916) — Ernest Berkeley Balch

Amateur Circus Life A New Method Of Physical Development For Boys And Girls (1916)

Ernest Berkeley Balch

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

How to Change History A Salvage Project — Robin Hemley

How to Change History A Salvage Project

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

A Life of One’s Own Nine Women Writers Begin Again — Joanna Biggs

A Life of One’s Own Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Other Colours Essays and a Story — Orhan Pamuk

Other Colours Essays and a Story

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You A Memoir — Neko Case

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You A Memoir

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Poems And Songs, And Lecture On Poetry With A Brief Memoir Of The Author (1866) — Former Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Robert Duthie

Poems And Songs, And Lecture On Poetry With A Brief Memoir Of The Author (1866)

Former Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Robert Duthie

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

Marley & Me Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog — John Grogan

Marley & Me Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood — Michelle Herman

The Middle of Everything Memoirs of Motherhood

Michelle Herman

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections • Personal Memoirs

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Essays, Literary Collections, Personal Memoirs — the same threads that run through Constraints by Steffan Triplett. Among the authors featured: Dani Shapiro, Henry Langrehr, Wally Lamb, Mark Twain, and others.

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