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Reckless Traveler by Walter RheinThe Kurdish Bike by Alesa LightbourneOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten TroostA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Ex-Pats
142 books — 59 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstTrafficked to Hell by R.J. FloHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia AlvarezGirl in Translation by Jean KwokWith Love, The Argentina Family by Mirta Ines Trupp
Language and Identity
40 books — 31 voters

The Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryLong Island by Colm TóibínThe Coast Road by Alan MurrinIntermezzo by Sally RooneyIs He Ever Going to Leave His Wife?  by Martess Dowling
Irish Interest 2024
145 books — 22 voters
Open, Heaven by Seán HewittThe Language of Remembering by Patrick HollowayOrdinary Saints by Niamh Ni MhaoileoinDaughter of the Otherworld by Shauna LawlessRot by Padraic X. Scanlan
Irish Interest 2025
140 books — 20 voters

Imagined Communities by Benedict AndersonNations and Nationalism by Ernest GellnerNationalism by Anthony D. SmithNationalism by Elie KedourieNationalism by Ernest Gellner
Nationalism
102 books — 19 voters
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'DonoghueOld God's Time by Sebastian BarryThe Death Census of Black ’47 by Liam KennedyHow to Build a Boat by Elaine FeeneyRace, Politics, and Irish America by Mary M Burke
Irish Interest 2023
140 books — 19 voters

1984 by George OrwellCapitalism for Democrats by Martin LowyThe United States Constitution by Founding FathersAntisemitism by Deborah E. LipstadtCop Under Fire by David Clarke Jr.
Valuable Historical and Political Reads
142 books — 13 voters
The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart HillThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi OnoPrincess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day GeorgeThe Oaken Throne by Robin Jarvis
How to rule a kingdom
10 books — 11 voters

Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganRememberings by Sinéad O'ConnorBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally RooneyThe Opposite of Butterfly Hunting by Evanna LynchThe Best Catholics in the World by Derek Scally
Irish Interest 2021
55 books — 8 voters
The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
100 books — 6 voters

Opening Night by Sara BaumeSaid the Dead by Doireann Ní GhríofaSaoirse by Charleen HurtubiseSister Wake by Dave   Rudden'An Asylum for My Affections' by Molly Hennigan
Irish Interest 2026
71 books — 5 voters
The Osages by John Joseph MathewsThe Magnificent House of Man Alone by Helen RushmoreWah’Kon-Tah by John Joseph MathewsOsage Traditions by James Owen DorseyThe Osage in Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) by Kristie C. Wolferman
Wazhazhe/Osage
34 books — 2 voters

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy DoyleDurango by John Brendan KeaneDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierUnder the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKennaLucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
Best Irish Books of the 1990s
10 books — 2 voters
How Green Was My Valley by Richard LlewellynIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
alt-j
4 books — 1 voter

Paradise Lost by John MiltonThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 1 by Alex RaymondCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
Glass Animals
15 books — 1 voter

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