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Nesting by Roisín O’DonnellThe Land in Winter by Andrew MillerTime of the Child by Niall WilliamsTwist by Colum McCannFlesh by David Szalay
Booker Prize Eligible 2025
177 books — 173 voters
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia LennonClear by Carys DaviesMother Naked by Glen James BrownThe Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryLong Island by Colm Tóibín
Booker Prize Eligible 2024
194 books — 178 voters

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Irish Interest 2023
140 books — 19 voters
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared HoseinThe House of Doors by Tan Twan EngSoldier Sailor by Claire KilroyShy by Max PorterBirnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Booker Prize Eligible 2023
166 books — 207 voters

The Colony by Audrey MageeSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganYoung Mungo by Douglas StuartThe Trees by Percival EverettCompanion Piece by Ali Smith
Booker Prize Eligible 2022
160 books — 217 voters
The Promise by Damon GalgutAssembly by Natasha BrownThe Fortune Men by Nadifa MohamedChina Room by Sunjeev SahotaThe Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Booker Prize Eligible 2021
153 books — 177 voters

Apeirogon by Colum McCannShuggie Bain by Douglas StuartActress by Anne EnrightA Thousand Moons by Sebastian BarryLove and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
Booker Prize Eligible 2020
160 books — 109 voters
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel JamesNight Boat to Tangier by Kevin BarrySpring by Ali SmithLand of the Living by Georgina HardingThe Fire Starters by Jan Carson
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019
175 books — 186 voters

The Shepherd's Hut by Tim WintonFrom a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal RyanWarlight by Michael OndaatjeNow We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew MillerAsymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 236 voters
Days Without End by Sebastian BarryReservoir 13 by Jon McGregorHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieSolar Bones by Mike McCormackAutumn by Ali Smith
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters

Slade House by David MitchellThirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCannThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesMinds of Winter by Ed O'LoughlinBack to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters
Single & Single by John Le CarréDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Best Books of 1999
521 books — 262 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,826 books — 10,308 voters
Three Plays by Seán O'CaseyThe Commitments by Roddy DoyleThe Master by Colm TóibínThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm TóibínThe Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Best Irish Literature
629 books — 715 voters

Satin Island by Tom McCarthyThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroNora Webster by Colm TóibínSleeping On Jupiter by Anuradha RoyThe Green Road by Anne Enright
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters
The Dig by Cynan JonesThe Thing About December by Donal RyanThe Night Guest by Fiona McFarlaneIn the Wolf's Mouth by Adam FouldsArctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 695 voters

The Spinning Heart by Donal RyanHarvest by Jim CraceTransAtlantic by Colum McCannThe Kills by Richard HouseUnexploded by Alison MacLeod
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallySurvival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Well-Written Holocaust Books
888 books — 2,876 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelPure by Timothy MoThe Panopticon by Jenni FaganAbsolution by Patrick FlanerySwimming Home by Deborah Levy
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
151 books — 269 voters
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne EnrightOther People's Money by Justin CartwrightChinaman by Shehan KarunatilakaPure by Andrew MillerThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,755 voters
The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,984 voters