17 best-selling ireland books like The Black Snow by Paul Lynch

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The Black Snow

By: Paul Lynch

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

The startling new novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational g…

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1. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"

-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

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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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  • literature
  • fiction
  • family
  • 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. Mothers and Sons

By: Colm Tóibín

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a tr… read more

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  • literature
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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4. The Temporary Gentleman

By: Sebastian Barry

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture Jack McNul… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. The Secret Scripture

By: Sebastian Barry

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Re… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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6. The Story of the Night

By: Colm Tóibín

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of Brooklynand The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in… read more

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  • historical
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Black Snow

By: Paul Lynch

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

The startling new novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational g… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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8. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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9. Good Behaviour

By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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11. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

By: Sebastian Barry

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicleas "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Wher… read more

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12. 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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  • literature
  • 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

13. What are You Like?

By: Anne Enright

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is one of the most exciting writers of Ireland's younger generation, a beguiling story… read more

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14. Sanctuary

By: William Faulkner

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuaryis a powerful novel examining the nature of… read more

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15. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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16. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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17. 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • family
"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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18. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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19. 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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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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21. 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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  • literature
  • fiction
  • family
  • 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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22. 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

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23. 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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24. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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25. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
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26. 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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27. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

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28. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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29. A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more

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  • fiction
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30. West

By: Carys Davies

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Stillicide

By: Cynan Jones

3.36

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and l… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"How often the process of construction starts with destruction."

-Cynan Jones, Stillicide

"There is only early morning light. Then the Water Train passes. Different. A weight of sound. The sound of a great waterfall crashing into a pool. It has the power church bells must used to have."

-Cynan Jones, Stillicide

26 Best fiction books like The Black Snow by Paul Lynch

Transform Your Habits

A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Gathering

Anne Enright

3.13

Transform Your Habits

Mothers and Sons

Colm Tóibín

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

4.39

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12 must-read fiction books like Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, Marian Keyes

Transform Your Habits

The Vet's Daughter

Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Tortoise and the Hare

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

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