16 must-read irish literature books like Wolf-Men and Water Hounds: The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland by Manchán Magan

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Wolf-Men and Water Hounds: The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland

By: Manchán Magan

4.55

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Uncover the secrets of our island in this engrossing look at magical landmarks across the country. …

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1. The Other Side Of The Wall

By: Andrea Mara

4.05

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sylvia looks out her bedroom window at night and sees a child face down in the pond next door,… read more

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2. Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)

By: Nora Roberts

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even… read more

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3. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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4. The Lost Words

By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more

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5. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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6. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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7. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)

By: Jane Casey

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more

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8. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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12. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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13. The Western Wind

By: Samantha Harvey

3.41

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man … read more

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"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and …"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

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14. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

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15. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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16. Reykjavík: A Crime Story

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.66

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more

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17. Topographia Hibernica

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.33

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more

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18. Of Blood and Bone (Chronicles of The One, #2)

By: Nora Roberts

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful fa… read more

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19. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

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"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

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20. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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21. The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of The One, #3)

By: Nora Roberts

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Rise of Magicks is the conclusing to the trilogy After the sickness known as the Doom destro… read more

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"There's no law saying I can't bitch about it first."

-Nora Roberts, The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of The One, #3)

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22. All Her Fault

By: Andrea Mara

4.15

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

ONE MISSING BOY.Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo f… read more

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23. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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24. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding

By: Eoghan Daltun

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Beautiful nature writing combined with a passionate appeal for a radically changed relationship to … read more

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"A common misconception is that rewilding seeks to return land to an idealised previous ecological state. In reality it would never be possible to go back in time to some arbitrarily chosen baseline -…"

-Eoghan Daltun, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding

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25. A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.04

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more

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"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

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26. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

By: Emma Dabiri

4.06

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more

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27. Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

By: Melissa Albert

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve fairy tales by the author of The Hazel Wood and The N… read more

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28. The Gospel According to Blindboy

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.22

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and vis… read more

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29. Three Little Birds

By: Sam Blake

3.78

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial r… read more

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30. Wolf-Men and Water Hounds: The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland

By: Manchán Magan

4.55

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Uncover the secrets of our island in this engrossing look at magical landmarks across the country. … read more

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31. I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have ha… read more

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4.49

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4.41

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