This month we are featuring Irish authors and contemporary Women authors. It’s a focused hodgepodge with something for everyone.
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Popular Irish Authors:
James Joyce – Ulysses; Dubliners; and Finnegan’s Wake
William Butler Yeats – (1923 Nobel Peace Prize winner) A Prayer for My Daughter: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; and The Celtic Twilight
Bram Stoker – Dracula; The Jewel of Seven Stars; and The Judge’s House
Maeve Binchy – A Week in Winter; A Few of the Girls; and Firefly Summer
Roddy Doyle – The Commitments; The Snapper; The Van; Smile; and A Star Called Henry
John Banville – The Sea; Snow; and The Blue Guitar
Oscar Wilde – Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray; and De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot; Murphy; and Molloy
CS Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia; The Screwtape Letters; and Til We Have Faces
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes; Teacher Man; and ‘Tis
Colm Tóibín – Brooklyn; The Master; and House of Names
Cecelia Ahern – P.S. I Love You; How to Fall in Love; and Roar
Geraldine Aron – (playwright) “My Brilliant Divorce;” “A Gallway Girl;” and “Same Old Moon
Mary Arrigan – Saving the Dark Planet; Dead Monks and Shady Deals; and Milo and One Dead Angry Druid
Kevin Barry – Night Boat to Tangier; City of Bohane; and Beatlebone
Ann Enright – The Gathering; Actress; and The Forgotten Waltz
Tana French – The Searcher; In The Woods; and The Likeness
Sally Rooney – Normal People; and Conversations with Friends
Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars; Room; and Akin
Mariah Keyes – Sushi for Beginners; Grown Ups; and The Other Side of the Story
Eimear McBride – The Lesser Bohemians; A Girl is a Half-formed Thing; and Strange Hotel
Contemporary Women Authors:
Joan Didion – Notes to John; The Year of Magical Thinking; and The White Album
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye; Beloved; and Song of Solomon
Alice Walker – The Color Purple; Meridian; and The Temple of My Familiar
Zadie Smith – White Teeth; The Fraud; and Swing Time
Roxane Gay – Bad Feminist; Difficult Women; and The Year I Learned Everything
Chimamanda da Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus; We Should All be Feminists; and Half of a Yellow Sun
Kristin Hannah – The Great Alone; The Women; and The Nightingale
Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch; The Little Friend; and The Secret History
Louise Erdich – The Night Watchman; The Round House; and The Plague of Doves
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