17 must-read irish literature books like Blank Pages: And Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty

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Blank Pages: And Other Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writer…

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1. The Collected Stories

By: John McGahern

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

2. The Blackwater Lightship

By: Colm Tóibín

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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3. The China Factory

By: Mary Costello

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever; … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. The Book of Evidence

By: John Banville

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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5. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

By: Laurence Bergreen

3.50

Format: 296 pages,

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6. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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7. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

8. Amongst Women

By: John McGahern

3.00

Format: 81 pages,

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more

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9. Thérèse Desqueyroux

By: François Mauriac

1.00

Format: None pages,

Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more

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10. The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

By: Herta Müller , Philip Boehm

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totali… read more

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11. Saint Maybe

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more

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12. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

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13. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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14. 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

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15. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

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16. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

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17. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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18. 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
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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19. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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20. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • short story collection
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21. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By: Louise Kennedy

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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22. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

By: Nathalia Holt

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more

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"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"

-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

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23. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.87

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

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24. The Caregiver

By: Samuel Park

3.76

Format: 288 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."

-Samuel Park, The Caregiver

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25. Homesickness

By: Colin Barrett

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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26. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce

By: Nuala O'Connor

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Blank Pages: And Other Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writer… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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28. The Belladonna Maze

By: Sinéad Crowley

3.95

Format: None pages, ebook

From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinéad Crowley, gripping dual time… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of American Estrangement: Stories by Said Sayrafiezadeh

29. American Estrangement: Stories

By: Said Sayrafiezadeh

3.73

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Like the Appearance of Horses

By: Andrew Krivak

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace P… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. 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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24 best-selling fiction books like Blank Pages: And Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Stories

John McGahern

4.38

The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Tóibín

3.52

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The China Factory

Mary Costello

4.83

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The Book of Evidence

John Banville

3.64

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20 Top fiction books like American Estrangement: Stories by Said Sayrafiezadeh

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Such Small Hands

Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman

4.04

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Roman Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

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Eastbound

Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

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Rita Bullwinkel

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