16 must-read ireland books like Mouthing by Orla Mackey

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Mouthing

By: Orla Mackey

3.93

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a ref…

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1. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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2. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • 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
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4. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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5. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

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

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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7. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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8. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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9. 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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  • fiction
"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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10. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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11. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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12. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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13. Exile

By: Aimée Walsh

3.90

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

'A brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice' - Irish Exa… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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14. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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15. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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16. The Lodgers

By: Holly Pester

3.31

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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18. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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19. Mouthing

By: Orla Mackey

3.93

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a ref… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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20. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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21. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction

18 Best fiction books like Mouthing by Orla Mackey

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The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

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Water

John Boyne

4.33

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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That They May Face The Rising Sun

John McGahern

3.77

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Donal Ryan

4.27

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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