Books for St. Patrick's Day

No shamrocks or leprechauns here - try one of these new Irish novels this March. From dark to ditzy, there's something for everyone.

Updated March 3, 2025
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The drowned : a novel
Banville, John
Paper Book
From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman's sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive,...
Gun street girl
McKinty, Adrian.
Paper Book
Duffy's back - and this closed case has just been blown wide open.
Kala : a novel
Walsh, Colin
Paper Book
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS * "An enthralling, evocative and heartfelt mystery" (Chris Whitaker) from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying...
Last call at the Local
Ruiz, Sarah Grunder
Paper Book
Raine Hart is used to the challenges of living with ADHD. It's why she ditched her life in Boston to busk around Europe as a traveling musician. No boss. No schedule. No one to disappoint but herself. But when a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to perform, she sees no other option but...
Love at first book
McKinlay, Jenn
Paper Book
When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author's prickly son... until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading. Emily...
Morbidly yours
Fairbanks, Ivy
Paper Book
"Sweet and spicy and fabulous!"--ABBY JIMENEZ, New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly TikTok sensation Morbidly Yours, an opposites-attract romantic dramedy about a shy, demisexual Irish mortician who must marry by his 35th birthday to keep his beloved...
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisín
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK  AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025 'Tense,...
Trust her
Berry, Flynn
Paper Book
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in the...
You have gone too far
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
With the haunting, moody prose of Tana French and the compulsive storytelling of Dervla McTiernan or Ann Cleeves, bestselling author Carlene O'Connor lures readers to a remote village on Ireland's southwest coast, where winding windswept roads open to spectacular views of rugged cliffs against...

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