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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1995
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • A mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present from the National Book Awardâ€"winning author.With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks ...



  • Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents a...



  • From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandh...



  • The National Book Awardâ€"winning author’s biographical novel of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev: “Exuberant and exhilarating . . . a brilliant leap of imagination” (San Francisco Chronicle).In Dancer, Colum McCann tells the ballet...



  • Short stories of exile, loss, love, and displacement by the National Book Awardâ€"winning, New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin.There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored...



  • A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling G...



  • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-LevittIn the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the...



  • McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfo...








  • In such acclaimed novels as "Let the Great World Spin" and "TransAtlantic," National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more th...



  • From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon -- named for a s...



  • "American Mother is a book that will shake your soul out."—StingNational Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – i...



  • A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin“Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.”A...


Award-Winning Books by Colum McCann

Let the Great World Spin
2009 National Book Award -- Fiction
2010 Ambassador Book Award -- Fiction
2010 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award -- Fiction
2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colum McCann has published 13 books.

The next book by Colum McCann, Twist, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Colum McCann, Songdogs, was published in October 1995.

No. Colum McCann does not write books in series.