Irish Fiction for Adults

Updated March 10, 2026
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Foster
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US ...
The hunter
French, Tana
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 * A New York Times Best Crime and Best Thriller Novel of 2024 * A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024 * An NPR, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and Globe and Mail Best...
Eat the ones you love
Griffin, Sarah Maria
Paper Book
A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke. During a visit to her local shopping mall, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower...
The Rachel Incident: A novel
O'Donoghue, Caroline.
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three * "O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications."...
Milkman
Burns, Anna
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWinner of the Man Booker PrizeIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she...
Intermezzo : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
Collected poems
Yeats, W. B.
Paper Book
W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the apocalyptic resonance of 'The Second Coming', this...
It should have been you
Mara, Andrea
Paper Book
Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable new thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of ALL HER FAULT, now a break-out TV show starring Sarah Snook. Your neighbours have secrets. How far would they go to keep them? *WINNER Crime...
Grace : a novel
Lynch, Paul
Paper Book
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Prophet Song, a sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from...
This is happiness
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE By the author of Four Letters of Love, the international bestseller now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan 'I love this...
The story collector
Woods, Evie
Paper Book
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything... One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor...
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Joyce, James
Paper Book
For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works-featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestsellingsix-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century...
The bee sting
Murray, Paul
Paper Book
One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction ...
Long Island
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book
A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives...
An Irish country welcome
Taylor, Patrick
Paper Book
An Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series. In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue...
The scholar
McTiernan, Dervla
Paper Book
When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will...
Murder at an Irish bakery
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
The green road
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds.
Evenings and weekends
McKenna, Oisín
Paper Book
"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles "Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections....
We are the Brennans
Lange, Tracey
Paper Book
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** In the vein of Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange's We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame--and the redemptive power of love--in an...
The girl in the castle : a novel
Montefiore, Santa
Paper Book
The Irish Girl was previously published as The Girl in the Castle. Ireland. The early twentieth century. Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war. Read their story -- and see why JOJO MOYES says that "Nobody does epic romance like Santa...

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