My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
By: Kevin Toolis
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming ou…
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1. Star of the Sea
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea set… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"Everything is in the way the material is composed."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
"It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
3. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
By: Owen Jones
4.09
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
4. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
5. The Comfort of Strangers
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more
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6. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… 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. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!: Just a Small-Town Girl Living in a Notions World
By: Emer McLysaght , None
3.75
Format: 288 pages,
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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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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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
10. Moment in Time
By: Suzanne Redfearn
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a heartrending story about the power of friendsh… read more
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- audiobook
11. Murder in an Irish Pub (Irish Village Mystery #4)
By: Carlene O'Connor
4.15
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
The luck of the Irish runs out for a professional poker player in this mystery set in County Cork t… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
12. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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
13. 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
- audiobook
14. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
15. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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
16. 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
- audiobook
"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
17. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
18. Red Clocks
By: Leni Zumas
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is on… read more
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- audiobook
"Mínevudottír may have felt free; but she was a cog in a land-snatching, resource-sucking, climate-fucking imperialist machine."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"Shut up, she tells her monkey mind. Please shut up, you picker of nits, presser of bruises, counter of losses, fearer of failures, collector of grievances future and past."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"But why does she want them, really? Because Susan has them? Because the Salem bookstore manager has them? Because she always vaguely assumed she would have them herself? Or does the desire come from …"-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
19. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- death
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
20. My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
By: Kevin Toolis
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming ou… read more
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- history
- memoir
- death
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
21. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- history
- memoir
- death
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
23. Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
By: Manchán Magan
4.17
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- irish literature
- ireland
24. The Girl from Donegal
By: Carmel Harrington
4.34
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the worl… read more
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25. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
By: Sallie Tisdale
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- death
"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
26. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
By: Anissa Gray
3.63
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, id… read more
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- audiobook
"Burn it all down. Let it go."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"I keep wondering how you find compassion for your own self when you go against what's good in you."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"My Big Mama raised us. She'd tell me and my two girl cousins every time we left the house, 'Y'all be careful. It's dangerous being a girl out there.'"-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"Sometimes life an pull a lot out of you, Althea. Just squeeze you dry. And if you don't have a way to get back whatever's good and precious to you, it's like losing your soul."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
27. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
28. Skin Deep
By: Liz Nugent
3.96
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
'I could probably have been an actress.It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.Isn't tha… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"People who go through life smiling miss out on the dignity of sorrow"-Liz Nugent, Skin Deep
29. A Lethal Legacy
By: Fin Dwyer
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fasci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- ireland
- audiobook
30. Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicis… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
By: Huda Al-Marashi
3.64
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
"Maybe Mama was right, and you could learn to love someone. Maybe knowing a guy loved you was enough to flip the switch in your heart that made you love him back."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
