The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Dublin

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
257 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
330 Dubliners James Joyce 1914 Irish English
357 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1939 Irish English
378 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 1820 British English
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
1575 Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Irish English
1781 Juno And The Paycock Sean O'Casey 1924 Irish English
1790 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
1915 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works Jonathan Swift 1729 Irish English
2062 Girl With Green Eyes Edna O'Brien 1962 Irish English
2244 The Gathering Anne Enright 2007 Irish English
2401 The Charwoman's Daughter James Stephens 1912 Irish English
2936 Best Ghost Stories Sheridan Le Fanu 1923 Irish English
3481 The Trusting And The Maimed James Plunkett 1959 Irish English
3819 The Commitments Roddy Doyle 1987 Irish English
3926 In The Woods Tana French 2007 Irish English
4252 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4389 James Joyce Richard Ellmann 1959 American English
4443 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4470 Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 Irish English
4591 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4632 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
4679 Skippy Dies Pauli Murray 2010 Irish English
4834 The Uninhabited House Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell 1875 British English
5477 Strumpet City James Plunkett 1969 Irish English
5581 The Young Man Botho Strauß 1984 German German
5730 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 2001 Irish English
5894 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
5992 The Green Road Anne Enright 2015 Irish English
6096 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 2017 Irish English
6368 The Candle Of Vision George William Russell 1974 Irish English
6887 The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy 1955 Irish English
6905 The Van Roddy Doyle 1991 Irish English
6930 Academy Street Mary Costello 2014 Irish English
7215 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7215 Poems Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7215 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
7215 The Shadow Of A Gunman Sean O'Casey 1923 Irish English
7622 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7758 Tatty Christine Dwyer Hickey 2004 Irish English
7850 Paula Spencer Roddy Doyle 2006 Irish English
7909 Bad Day In Blackrock Kevin Power 2008 Irish English
7961 Tenderwire Claire Kilroy 2006 Irish English
8094 Molly Fox’s Birthday Deirdre Madden 2008 Irish English
8252 Ghost Light Joseph O'Connor 2010 Irish English
8276 Solace Belinda McKeon 2011 Irish English
8438 Faithful Place Tana French 2010 Irish English
8734 The Dalkey Archive Flann O'Brien 1964 Irish English
8791 Here Are The Young Men Rob Doyle 2014 Irish English
8904 Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent 2014 Irish English
8906 Fallen Lia Mills 2014 Irish English
9369 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9372 Glenarvon Caroline Lamb 1816 British English
9545 Peppercanister Poems Thomas Kinsella 1972 Irish English
9623 This Hostel Life Melatu Uche Okorie 2018 Irish English
9760 Show Them A Good Time Nicole Flattery 2019 Irish English
9762 Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor 2019 Irish English
9777 A Ghost In The Throat Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2020 Irish English
9828 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9850 Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 2020 Irish English
9952 Actress Anne Enright 2020 Irish English
10123 White City Kevin Power 2021 Irish English
10132 Snowflake Louise Nealon 2021 Irish English
10131 Nora Nuala O’Connor 2021 Irish English
10378 Again, Rachel Marian Keyes 2022 Irish English
10504 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10779 Grown Ups Marian Keyes 2020 Irish English
11304 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1 Michael Holroyd 1988 British English
11660 The Tenants Of Time Thomas Flanagan 1988 American English
11660 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11899 Nora Brenda Maddox 1988 British English
11939 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1987 American English
12162 Harry Lorrequer Charles Lever 1839 Irish English
12258 Circle Of Friends Maeve Binchy 1990 Irish English
12324 A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle 1999 Irish English
12655 The Complete Letters Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 2000 Irish English
13086 P.S. I Love You Cecelia Ahern 2004 Irish English
13229 The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion Bram Stoker 1973 British Unknown
13246 The Henna Wars Adiba Jaigirdar 2020 Irish English
13359 The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1812 British English
13971 The Outside Boy Jeanine Cummins 2010 Unknown English
14042 Surrogate City Hugo Hamilton 1990 Irish Unknown
14176 To Be A Machine Mark O'Connell 2017 Irish English
14344 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle 1996 Irish English
14644 Love And Sleep Sean O'Reilly 2002 Unknown Unknown
14693 The Parts Keith Ridgway 2003 Irish English
14730 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14983 The Informer Liam O'Flaherty 1925 Irish English
14983 The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 2011 Irish English
14983 The Alchemyst Michael Scott 2007 Irish English
14983 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
15634 Surrender Bono 2022 Irish English
15858 The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats 1933 Irish English
15866 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15897 My Left Foot Christy Brown 1954 Irish English
15897 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
16699 Exiles James Joyce 1918 Irish English
17114 The Snapper Roddy Doyle 1990 Irish English
16854 The Wit Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
17114 The Hostage Brendan Behan 1958 Irish English
17114 Are You Somebody? Nuala O'Faolain 1996 Irish English
17114 Collected Letters George Bernard Shaw 1972 British English
17114 A Man With One Of Those Faces Caimh McDonnell 2016 Irish English
17114 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 2021 Irish English
17114 Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy 2007 Irish English
17114 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17114 The Secret Place Tana French 2014 Irish English
17114 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17114 Broken Harbor Tana French 2012 Irish English
17114 Rachel's Holiday Marian Keyes 1997 Irish English
17114 We Solve Murders Richard Osman 2024 British English
17114 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17114 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17114 Breakdown Cathy Sweeney 2023 Unknown English
17114 Trans Atlantic Colum McCann 2013 Irish English
17114 Where Rainbows End Cecelia Ahern 2004 Irish English