Books from Ireland
124 popular irish books
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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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The Vampire's Assistant and Other Tales from the Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan EN
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Darren Shan is just an ordinary schoolboy who loves to ride bikes and hang out with his three best friends. Then one day Darren and his friends stumble across an invitation to visit the Cirque Du Freak, a strange and mysterious freak show. Almost as if by destiny, Darren wins a ticket and what follows is his horrifying descent into the dark and bloody world of vampires. This is Darren's story. New movie edition features the first three books--Cirque Du Freak, The Vampire's Assistant, and Tunnels of Blood-- bound up in one volume!
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The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes EN
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*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022*** Discover the entertaining, uplifting and intriguing tale of finding true happiness in unexpected places from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups 'A total triumph' DAILY MAIL ___________ Ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one? One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a simple good deed. When the result is a terrible car accident, she meets a handsome stranger with a Range Rover who wants her number - no, for insurance purposes - and in this meeting a seed is born whi... continue
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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue EN
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A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . . Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a ps... continue
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The Wren, the Wren : From the Booker Prize-Winning Author by Anne Enright EN
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel's famo... continue
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Time Pieces : A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, Paul Joyce EN
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'If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir is a book you'll not be able to put down' The Guardian 'A trove of arresting imagery, from the lushly poetic to the luridly absurd ... utterly delightful' Irish Times 'Delicious ... Banville's soarings, like a hawk's, are both wild and comprehensive, taking in everything and imagining more' New York Times For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each ye... continue
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Tormento by John Boyne PT
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Apesar de sentir falta do irmão mais velho, que estava fazendo faculdade em outro país, Danny aproveitava o tempo livre das férias para andar de bicicleta e jogar bola com seu melhor amigo, Luke Kennedy. Até que um dia volta para casa e, estranhamente, não vê sinal de sua mãe. Quando a sra. Delaney finalmente chega, vem acompanhada de dois policiais. Ela havia se envolvido em um acidente - atropelara um garotinho que agora estava em coma, com poucas chances de sobreviver. A sra. Delaney se afoga em culpa e se isola de todo mundo, inclusive do marido e de Danny. O garoto, por sua vez, não enten... continue
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TRES LUCES by Claire Keegan ES
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"En la Irlanda rural de principios de los ochenta, una niña es llevada a casa de unos parientes a pasar una temporada, hasta que su madre haya dado a luz al último de sus hermanitos. En casa de los Kinsella todo contrasta con su hogar: hay baño y no letrina, una máquina blanca a la que llaman freezer, e insisten en que allí no hay secretos. Pero ella no solo descubrirá uno, sino también que el dolor puede convertirse en ternura. Un libro sublime y sugerente sobre la cambiante línea entre el secreto y la vergüenza, sobre ese intersticio entre lo que debe ser dicho y lo que debe callarse." --Con... continue
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Ulysses by James Joyce EN
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The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts, and proofs in order to produce as accurate and complete a new edition as possible. First published in 1984, the Gable... continue
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett EN
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own conscio... continue