10 must-read ireland books like Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch

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Red Sky in Morning

By: Paul Lynch

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of whi…

If you liked the ireland plot in Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

2. The Mark and the Void

By: Paul Murray

4.33

Format: 288 pages,

Claude is a Frenchman who lives in Dublin. His birthplace is famed as the city of lovers, but so fa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of Provinces of Night by William Gay

3. Provinces of Night

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Red Sky in Morning by Paul    Lynch

4. Red Sky in Morning

By: Paul Lynch

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of whi… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Red Sky in Morning book and Paul Lynch's Red Sky in Morning

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

5. 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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6. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise o… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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

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9. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Paul Lynch's Red Sky in Morning

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of This Other Eden by Paul Harding

10. 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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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

11. 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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12. 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
  • 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

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13. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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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14. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

15. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

16. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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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17. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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18. 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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

19. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel       Mason

20. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

By: Daniel Mason

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Godwin by Joseph O'Neill

21. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

18 Top fiction books like Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch

Transform Your Habits

The Gathering

Anne Enright

3.13

Transform Your Habits

The Mark and the Void

Paul Murray

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Provinces of Night

William Gay

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Red Sky in Morning

Paul Lynch

2.33

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20 Top fiction books like A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

This Other Eden

Paul Harding

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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