Life Without Children: Stories
By: Roddy Doyle
3.47
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories…
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1. Master of Reality
By: John Darnielle
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
John Darnielle hears [Black Sabbath's Master of Reality] through the ears of Roger Painter, a young… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"Good things never last, bad things never die."-John Darnielle, Master of Reality
"I could feel myself getting younger and angrier. Or maybe I could feel the young angry person I really am and will always be rising up and taking over, Incredible Hulk style. I don't know. I probably…"-John Darnielle, Master of Reality
"I can't draw pictures! But that's OK because there are no pictures on the the cover of Master of Reality. It is just words written in a wavy style which you would probably say is just drugs but I thi…"-John Darnielle, Master of Reality
"When you listen to early Black Sabbath, you know that the main difference between them & you is that somebody bought them guitars and microphones. They're not smarter than you; they're not deeper tha…"-John Darnielle, Master of Reality
2. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
3. A Natural
By: Ross Raisin
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Tatuaggio (Pepe Carvalho #2)
By: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán , Hado Lyria
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un cuerpo de hombre joven desnudo sobre la arena, y en la piel, un tatuaje: He nacido para revoluci… read more
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- fiction
5. On Canaan's Side
By: Sebastian Barry
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Narrated by Lilly Bere, 'On Canaan's Side' opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
6. Dunbar
By: Edward St. Aubyn
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was… read more
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7. 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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8. Breakfast on Pluto
By: Patrick McCabe
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Breakfast on Plutobecame a #1 bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and … read more
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9. A Long Way from Verona
By: Jane Gardam
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at… read more
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10. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
11. The Enchanters
By: James Ellroy
3.73
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
13. 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
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
14. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
15. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
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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
16. 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
- contemporary
- 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
17. 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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- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
18. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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
19. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
20. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
21. Call and Response
By: Gothataone Moeng
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Cocktail
By: Lisa Alward
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the Globe and Mail 's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to R… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
By: Omer Friedlander
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
he Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
By: Hilary Mantel
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestsel… read more
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- short stories
25. Life Without Children: Stories
By: Roddy Doyle
3.47
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
26. Dance Move
By: Wendy Erskine
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Praise for Sweet Home: ‘An exceptional ear for dialogue, an impeccable semantic rhythm and an un… read more
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- short stories
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27. Fra i nat sover jeg på taget
By: Jens Christian Grøndahl
3.78
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Egentlig er livet forbi. Først blev diagnosen stillet, derefter forlod konen ham. Men så står hun d… read more
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28. Heart, Be at Peace
By: Donal Ryan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
29. Glory Days: Stories
By: Simon Rich
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
30. The Passengers
By: Will Ashon
3.50
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices - people talking about their lives… read more
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31. Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past
By: Páraic Kerrigan
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Marking fifty years of the founding of an LGBTQ rights movement in Ireland, Reeling in the Queers e… read more
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- irish literature
