14 Top irish literature books like Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom by Marita Conlon-McKenna

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Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna

4.02

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

The No.1 bestselling novel from one of Ireland's most loved writers!With the threat of the First Wo…

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Cover of Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women by Steven O'Riordan, Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery, Marina Gambold, Sue Leonard

1. Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women

By: Steven O'Riordan , Nancy Costello , Kathleen Legg , Diane Croghan , Marie Slattery , Marina Gambold , Sue Leonard

4.31

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

"At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present san… read more

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  • ireland
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2. The Hat Shop On The Corner

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna , conlon-mckenna-marita

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Hats! Hats! Hats! Upbrims, sidesweeps, silks, ribbons and trims all become part of Ellie's life whe… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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3. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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5. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You by Maisie Hill

7. Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

By: Maisie Hill

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Idol

By: Louise O'Neill

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"

-Louise O'Neill, Idol

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9. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Freckles

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.71

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What if the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all alon… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • ireland
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  • audiobook
"You’re the last person in the world I’d want to hurt."

-Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

"When you’re happy, even the things you hate can become the things you love."

-Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

"It’s home, isn’t it. The seemingly invisible things that go right to your soul."

-Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

"I mean, why else would you be looking for motivational quotes. You want to be guided."

-Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

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11. Suspects

By: Lesley Pearse

3.82

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when your dream home becomes your worst nightmare? . . . THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES B… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) by Genevieve Cogman

12. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

Cover of Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea (Heaven's Cove, #1) by Liz Eeles

13. Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea (Heaven's Cove, #1)

By: Liz Eeles

4.25

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

From the attic of Driftwood House there are stunning views of the deep green sea and sapphire sky. … read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Speak: The Graphic Novel

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

4.39

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what yo… read more

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  • fiction
"Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity. If you're tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"The school board banned one of Maya Angelou's books, so the librarian had to take down her poster. I fished it out of the trash. She must be a great writer if the school board is scared of her."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one pi…"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

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16. Conjure Women

By: Afia Atakora

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
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"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

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17. The Guinness Girls: A Hint of Scandal

By: Emily Hourican

3.52

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

'An utterly captivating insight into these fascinating women and the times they lived in ... it's a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Glorious Guinness Girls

By: Emily Hourican

3.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From London to Ireland during the 1920s, this glorious, gripping, and richly textured story takes u… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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19. The Girl from Donegal

By: Carmel Harrington

4.34

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the worl… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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20. 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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  • audiobook
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21. Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

By: Emer McLysaght

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. Toffee

By: Sarah Crossan

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. … read more

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  • audiobook
"I miss you, she says. I miss you and you're right here"

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"I miss you", she says. "I miss you and you're right here"

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"It will rain by noon. And then it will be fine again. It will."

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

"No goodbye is forever unless you can erase everything you ever knew about a person and everything you once felt."

-Sarah Crossan, Toffee

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23. The Importance of Being Aisling: Country Roads, Take Her Home

By: Emer McLysaght

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Aisling is 29 and she’s still a complete Aisling.After a tough year, things between herself and Joh… read more

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Cover of Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

24. Big Girl, Small Town

By: Michelle Gallen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called… read more

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  • historical fiction
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25. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • historical
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Cover of Harcourt's Mountain (The Harcourts of Canada #1) by Elaine Dodge

26. Harcourt's Mountain (The Harcourts of Canada #1)

By: Elaine Dodge

4.53

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00EK0V2Y4 . Nominated for the 2014 RONE Awards … read more

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  • historical
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Cover of All My Love, Detrick by Roberta Kagan

27. All My Love, Detrick

By: Roberta Kagan

4.13

Format: 392 pages, ebook

An act of kindness creates an unbreakable bond of friendship and love between a German boy—Detrick … read more

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  • historical
  • war
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  • historical fiction
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28. Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna

4.02

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

The No.1 bestselling novel from one of Ireland's most loved writers!With the threat of the First Wo… read more

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29. You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2)

By: Roberta Kagan

4.18

Format: 683 pages, ebook

Young artist Manfred Blau finds favor with propaganda chief Josef Goebbels and quickly rises throug… read more

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30. Sentimental Journey

By: Jill Barnett

4.20

Format: 507 pages, Kindle Edition

Praise for Jill Barnett's epic novel of love and war: Sentimental Journey is everything the title … read more

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  • war
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31. The Figurine

By: Victoria Hislop

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more

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26 Top fiction books like Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Transform Your Habits

The Hat Shop On The Corner

Marita Conlon-McKenna , conlon-mckenna-marita

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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19 Best fiction books like Idol by Louise O'Neill

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Bookseller

Alice Slater

3.48

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Louise O'Neill

3.58

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