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85 popular irish books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Ireland. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain EN

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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CONFESSION Six neighbours, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead. In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good. There's just one problem. Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight. The police start to ask questions and the seemingly ... continue

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Dracula by Bram Stoker EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
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Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his 'master'. In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and a determined gro... continue

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Dracula : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Reviews and Reactions, Dramatic and Film Variations, Criticism by Bram Stoker EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
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This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.
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Dubliners by James Joyce EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
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Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.
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Eclipse by John Banville ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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El narrador, Alexander Cleave, está en medio de una crisis. Percibe que algo no está bien en su vida. Siente que el nudo central de su problema está en que toda su vida se ha ocupado más de representar que de ser, o de vivir, lo cual cuaja perfectamente con su profesión de actor (aunque el problema lo preceda). "A veces me parece que es en esos intervalos de vacío, sin que fuera consciente de ello, cuando he vivido de forma más real y auténtica." Hay al menos un aspecto de su vida que muestra otra cosa: la profunda conexi&oacu... continue

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El Faro de Blackwater by Colm Tóibín ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Después de varios años sin dirigirse la palabra, la enfermedad de Declan hará que la familia Devereux reestablezca los lazos que antaño les unieran y se sometan a un proceso de acercamiento en el que van a aflorar y aclararse algunos de los malentendidos que les distanciaron (relacionados muchos de ellos con la muerte del padre). Tóibin se ha convertido casi en un autor de culto entre los lectores gay. Sin embargo, no se trata de un autor sectario, como los demuestran la amplitud de sus éxitos precedentes en Europa. El autor vendrá a presentar su libro a Barcelona en el mes de abril (ver apart... continue


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Esperando a Godot by Samuel Beckett ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quiza, los que ya lo conocian como ex secretario de otro irlandes no menos genial: James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenia escrita ya gran parte de su obra literaria; sin embargo, para muchos, paso a ser autor de Esperando a Godot. Se dice que, desde aquella primera puesta en escena -que, realizada por el gran Roger Blin, causo tanta estupefaccion y obtuvo tanto exito-hasta nuestros dias, no ha habido ano en que, en algun lugar de nuestro planeta, no se haya representado Esperando a ... continue

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Follow Me to Ground : A Novel by Sue Rainsford EN

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Palm Beach Post, BuzzFeed, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated of 2020 A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she m... continue


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