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10 Books by Contemporary Irish Authors You Need to Read


10 Books by Contemporary Irish Authors You Need to Read

I'd like to share 10 books (and a few additional recommendations) by Irish authors released in the last five years.

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Robinson Crusoe

Novel by Daniel Defoe https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDM80zJrw-sfluNbHCfDICF4E62BGp176vw_s8-r9VsTpKpz_P

Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.

Gulliver's Travels

Book by Jonathan Swift https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpY6UwSweJywIFv5Uv1N8MaAGAoJqSzv2D-NL4Mr-TdUV_5-2l

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

Pride and Prejudice

Novel by Jane Austen https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTAN0tr1CW6rfTmHT8heQxsuHEnlAzRAzr75gEC1Ttnn8iqvGg0

Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.

Bhagavad Gita

Book by Vyasa https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQImCpekdLbEGtZD5AITeWm63Labh7O0plYUuvx-NaKgPEc0vay

The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as the Gita, is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, which forms part of the Epic Mahabharata.

The Valley of Fear

Novel by Arthur Conan Doyle https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTuC7L7Zd_8TfDJbAaDCv-9ssy9qtHcNwRstSjmcBm2edZ54cmy

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novel by Oscar Wilde https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQd9exHr6EA_4-xh_U9xl3M5kNqzEf-pymZVd_vsHID4K7tACuQ

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.