11 must-read irish literature books like Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2) by Sebastian Barry

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Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

By: Sebastian Barry

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wi…

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1. An Evening of Long Goodbyes

By: Paul Murray

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Charles Hythloday observes the world from the comfortable confines of his family estate, and doesn’… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s …"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

"You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values ! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things…"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

"The accursed ship didn't sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast em…"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

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2. The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

3.13

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

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3. Last Friends (Old Filth, #3)

By: Jane Gardam

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

By: Sebastian Barry

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

6. The Green Road

By: Anne Enright

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more

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7. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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

8. Grace

By: Paul Lynch

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Audio

A sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl and her brother on a great journey across nineteenth-c… read more

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9. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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

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10. 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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  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
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"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

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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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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12. 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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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13. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

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14. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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15. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • historical
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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16. Huiswerk

By: Marja Pruis

3.28

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Clara Feij is in het mooiste huis van Amsterdam komen wonen, vindt ze zelf. Schoonmaken laat ze ove… read more

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

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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18. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Actress

By: Anne Enright

3.44

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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20. Bellagio (De Alfa-vrouwen #1)

By: Nan Adams

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

Bellagio is het spannende eerste deel van de trilogie De Alfa-vrouwen van Nan Adams. Als Geraldi… read more

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21. Malibu (De Alfa-vrouwen #2)

By: Nan Adams

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Malibu is het spannende tweede deel van De Alfa-vrouwen-trilogie van Nan Adams. Als Geraldine te… read more

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17 Best fiction books like Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2) by Sebastian Barry

Transform Your Habits

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Paul Murray

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Gathering

Anne Enright

3.13

Transform Your Habits

Last Friends (Old Filth, #3)

Jane Gardam

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

Sebastian Barry

3.98

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21 must-read fiction books like Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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