The Bogman
By: Walter Macken
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An orphan returns from Dublin to live with his tyrannical grandfather in a small west of Ireland vi…
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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.72
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
2. Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
By: Evan S. Connell
4.06
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here The wife of a su… read more
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"Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"Trenta, trentacinque, quaranta: gli anni erano sempre passati a farle visita come zie criticone, e sempre erano scomparsi senza lasciare traccia, senza fare rumore. E adesso ne era arrivato un altro."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"At the Louvre she immediately recognized the Venus de Milo, even though they happened to approach from the rear, and of course the Mona Lisa was unmistakable; it looked exactly like the reproductions."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
3. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
By: William Kent Krueger
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown th… read more
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- fiction
"What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve."-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
"Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" "He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things." "-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that th…"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
4. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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6. Strumpet City
By: James Plunkett
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embra… read more
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7. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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8. Licensed to Thrill 1: Hunt For Jack Reacher Series Thrillers Books 1-3
By: Diane Capri
5.00
Format: 646 pages, ebook
"Intricate and Ingenious. Make some coffee. You'll read all night." -- Lee Child Licensed to Thrill… read more
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9. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
10. The Outside Boy
By: Jeanine Cummins
5.00
Format: 208 pages,
Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family… read more
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11. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… 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
13. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
14. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
15. New Neighbours for Coronation Close (Coronation Close, #1)
By: Lizzie Lane
4.41
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Bristol 1936 Jenny Crawford has resigned herself to a loveless marriage living hand to mouth with … read more
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- fiction
16. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
18. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
19. An Unwanted Inheritance
By: Imogen Clark
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Reluctantly Home comes a story of three siblings and a suitcase full… read more
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- fiction
20. That Old Country Music
By: Kevin Barry
3.90
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
21. The Bogman
By: Walter Macken
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An orphan returns from Dublin to live with his tyrannical grandfather in a small west of Ireland vi… read more
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