Colm Toibin

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1991
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Eilis Lacey

1 - Brooklyn (May-2009)
2 - Long Island (May-2024)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The South

    A highly acclaimed novel from the author of Brooklyn and an “immensely gifted and accomplished writer” (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain.In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, de...

  • The Heather Blazing

    Colm Tóibín’s “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic.Eamon Redmond is a judge in Irel...

  • The Story of the Night

    From the award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay liv...

  • The Blackwater Lightship

    From the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson.It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, he...

  • The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

    An evocative compilation of the best in Irish short fiction includes excerpts from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, James Joyce's "The Dead," "Castle Rackrent" by Maria Edgeworth, John McGahern's "The Country Funeral," and works by Samuel...

  • The Master

    “Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.Beautif...

  • Mothers and Sons

    With dazzling brilliance and empathy, Colm Tóibín's collection of stories wrestles with complicated themes of emotional restraint, the long reach of sexual repression, and the difficulty of escaping one's past.Each of the nine stories in this beaut...

  • Brooklyn

    Eilis Lacey - 1

    Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tibn's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland ...

  • The Empty Family

    In the breathtaking long story “The Street,” Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona -- a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In “Two Women,” an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer t...



  • The Testament of Mary

    PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING AND INDELIBLE, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. In the ancien...

  • Twisted Truths: Stories from the Irish

    Twisted Truths is an exciting anthology which brings together some of the finest and most innovative writing in the Irish language published in the past three decades. It is a carefully chosen selection of twenty-two stories, by thirteen authors, whi...

  • Nora Webster

    From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and fi...

  • House of Names

    From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra -- spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling -- and her children. “I have been acquaint...

  • The Magician

    A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek​From one of today’s most brilliant and...

  • A Guest at the Feast

  • Long Island

    Eilis Lacey - 2

    * OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMEN...

  • Irish Short Stories

    • / General Fiction
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    From dark comedies to understated tragedies, the works assembled here bear the unique tone of the Irish voice, the singular imprint of its landscape and culture. Drawing on modern classics by Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O'Connor as well as contemporary...

Award-Winning Books by Colm Toibin

Brooklyn
2009 Costa Book Award -- Novel
The Master
2004 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Fiction
2005 Stonewall Book Award -- Fiction
2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction
The Story of the Night
1998 Triangle Award -- Gay Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colm Toibin has published 17 books.

Colm Toibin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Long Island, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Colm Toibin, The South, was published in September 1991.

Yes. Colm Toibin has 1 series.
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