Previous Adult Books of the Month

• April 2016 Blood on the Banner: the Republican struggle in Clare 1913-1923 by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

• March 2016 Room by Emma Donoghue

• January 2016 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• December 2015 A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard

• November 2015 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

• August 2015 Tender by Belinda McKeon

• June 2015 Here I Am: Challenging Perceptions of Down Syndrome in Ireland by Daniel Murphy

• May 2015 Inside the GPO 1916: a first-hand account by Joe Good

• April 2015 Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

• March 2015 The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid

• February 2015 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

• December 2014 Still Alice by Lisa Genova

• November 2014 Art and Architecture of Ireland

• October 2014 Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson

• August 2014 History of the Rain by Niall Williams

• July 2014 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

• June 2014 A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

• May 2014 Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn

• March 2014 A Month by the Sea: encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy

• February 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• December 2013 The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

• October 2013 The Parish of Corofin: A Historical Profile by Michael Mac Mahon

• September 2013 Strumpet City by James Plunkett

• July 2013 Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson

• June 2013 Secrets of the Irish Landscape Edited by Matthew Jebb and Colm Crowley

• May 2013 Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking by Michael Harding

• April 2013 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• March 2013 Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin

• December 2012 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

• November 2012 Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

• September 2012 The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler

• August 2012 Ancient Light by John Banville

• July 2012 The Wild Flowers of Loophead, Co. Clare, Ireland by Carmel T. Madigan

• April 2012 Life by Keith Richards with James Fox

• March 2012 The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

• January 2012 Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

• December 2011 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

• November 2011 Solace by Belinda McKeon

• October 2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

• September 2011 Love You More by Lisa Gardner

• July 2011 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

• June 2011 The Whisperer – Donato Carrisi

• May 2011 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• April 2011 New Irish Short Stories edited by Joseph O'Connor

• March 2011 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

• February 2011 The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell

• January 2011 Faithful Place by Tana French

• December 2010 The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story edited with an introduction by Anne Enright

• November 2010 Vanishing Ireland by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury

• October 2010 Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• September 2010 Room by Emma Donoghue

• August 2010 The Help by Kathryn Stockett

• July 2010 An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry Edited by Wes Davis

• June 2010 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

• May 2010 Trespass by Rose Tremain

• April 2010 Forgotten Skills of Cooking by Darina Allen

• February 2010 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

• January 2010 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

• November 2009 A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• October 2009 Love and Summer by William Trevor

• September 2009 Lush Life by Richard Price

• August 2009 The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

• July 2009 Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

• June 2009 The 19^th Wife by David Ebershoff

• May 2009 Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

• April 2009 The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

• March 2009 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

• February 2009 The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham

• January 2009 Days We Remember: Momentous Events in Irish Life by Deirdre Purcell

• December 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

• November 2008 Clare: History and Society Edited by Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent

• October 2008 Birds of Ireland: Facts, Folklore and History by Glynn Anderson

• September 2008 The Outcast by Sadie Jones

• August 2008 The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

• July 2008 Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

• June 2008 Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter

• May 2008 Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett

• April 2008 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• March 2008 Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

• February 2008 The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris

• January 2008 Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom From the Celtic World by John O’Donohue

• December 2007 Back From the Brink: the autobiography by Paul McGrath with Vincent Hogan

• November 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright

• October 2007 What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn

• September 2007 One Step Behind by Henning Mankell

• August 2007 The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

• July 2007 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• June 2007 Barbecue by Eric Treuille and Birgit Erath

• May 2007 The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson

• April 2007 Q & A by Vikas Swarup

• March 2007 Mao: the Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

• February 2007 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

• January 2007 Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

• November 2006 A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry

• October 2006 Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

• September 2006 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

• August 2006 It’s Not About the Bike – My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins
• July 2006 The Master by Colm Tóibín

• June 2006 Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
• May 2006 Don’t Move by Margaret Mazzantini
   
• April 2006 Memoir by John McGahern

• March 2006 Gearrscéalta an Chéid, Roghnaigh le Gearóid Denvir agus Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha

• February 2006 Complete Irish Wildlife by Paul Steery

• January 2006 Saturday by Ian McEwan

• December 2005 A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

• November 2005 The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 By Diarmaid Ferriter

• October 2005 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• September 2005 Himalaya by Michael Palin

• August 2005 Moments: Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims Edited by Ciara Considine

• July 2005 The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• June 2005 Dorothea Lange’s Ireland Text by Gerry Mullins, essay by Daniel Dixon

• May 2005 The Gingerbread Woman by Jennifer Johnston

• April 2005 Knots & Crosses - An Inspector Rebus Mystery by Ian Rankin

• March 2005 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

• February 2005 The Cure by Carlo Gébler

• January 2005 Original Sin by P.D. James

• December 2004 The Irish Christmas Book by John Killen

• November 2004 The Irish Times Book of Favourite Irish Poems

• October 2004 The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

• September 2004 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

• August 2004 Booked! (v. carefully) Selected Writings by Tom Humphries

• July 2004 The Clare Anthology Edited by Kieran Sheedy

• June 2004 The Bookseller of Kabul By Åsne Seierstad

• May 2004 Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World By Eric Schlosser

• April 2004 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

• March 2004 Star of the Sea by Joseph O’ Connor

• February 2004 The Encyclopaedia of Ireland by Brian Lalor (General Editor)

• January 2004 Lives Less Ordinary: Thirty-two Irish Portraits by Judy Kravis and Peter Morgan

• December 2003 Irish Christmas Stories and Irish Christmas Stories 2 by David Marcus

• November 2003 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

• October 2003 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

• September 2003 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

• August 2003 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• July 2003 The Pretender by Mary Morrissy

• June 2003 Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

• May 2003 Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

• April 2003 Blood-Dark Track: a Family History by Joseph O'Neill

• March 2003 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

• February 2003 Philip Brennan's Clare: 73 unique images of the artist's native County Clare

• January 2003 Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry

• December 2002 The Pale Gold of Alaska and Other Stories by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

• November 2002 That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern

• October 2002 As it is in Heaven by Niall Williams

• September 2002 The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins

• August 2002 Alice Falling by William Wall

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