Iron Annie
By: Luke Cassidy
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An uncompromising, darkly humorous look at life in the criminal underworld of the Irish border from…
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1. Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Trade Paperback
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more
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2. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
3. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
4. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
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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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
6. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
7. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- queer
8. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
9. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
10. Pine
By: Francine Toon
3.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- crime
"...she can’t shake the discomfort of last night. It has seeped into the daylight."-Francine Toon, Pine
11. My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1
By: Kabi Nagata
4.18
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The sequel to the viral sensation My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! In this follow-up to th… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"The energy that, until now, had swelled up in the space between life and death turned toward a thirst for love."-Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1
12. 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
- contemporary
13. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- adult
- fiction
14. Lot
By: Bryan Washington
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."-Bryan Washington, Lot
"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"-Bryan Washington, Lot
15. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
16. Golden State
By: Ben H. Winters
3.47
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
"They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the no…"-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
17. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- lesbian
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
18. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Holding Her Breath
By: Eimear Ryan
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A joy to read. ... Emotional, clever, and humorous, Holding Her Breath will engross readers with… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
20. Iron Annie
By: Luke Cassidy
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An uncompromising, darkly humorous look at life in the criminal underworld of the Irish border from… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
- queer
21. A Bánh Mì for Two
By: Trinity Nguyen
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
