Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
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1. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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2. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
3. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
4. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
5. 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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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
7. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
8. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
9. The Year of the Cat: A Love Story
By: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
I looked around at my flat, at the woodchip wallpaper and scuffed furniture, and realised that I di… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
10. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
11. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
12. Common Decency
By: Susannah Dickey
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
13. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
14. Reality Check
By: Vicki Notaro
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
16. Careering
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Spirit Level
By: Richy Craven
3.94
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
18. Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin
By: Máiría Cahill
4.29
Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition
NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow… read more
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- irish literature
19. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
20. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
By: Leanne McCormick
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - … read more
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- historical
- ireland
- irish literature
21. Operation Masonic (Operation, #5)
By: Helen C. Escott
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Operation Masonic The Lost Cathedral The Freemasons' Most Worshipful Grand Master has been mu… read more
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