The Recurring Cast
Colm Tóibín books in order · Colm Tóibín reading order · 9 books · 1992 to 2024

Colm Tóibín Books in Order and Reading Order

Literary and generalLiterary fiction

Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s finest novelists. Brooklyn, about a young woman from Enniscorthy who emigrates to New York, was a bestseller and a film, and Long Island picks up her story twenty years later.

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Colm Tóibín books in order

The first Eilis Lacey book is Brooklyn (2009). There are 9 books in all, published from 1992 to 2024, across 2 series and groups.

The Colm Tóibín reading order: each series in publication order, with its lead characters. Where the story runs in a different order, switch to Story order. Crossover books are marked and listed under their main series. Use My books to track what you have read.

Eilis Lacey

2 books · Set in New YorkLiterary fiction
  1. 1Brooklyn2009With Eilis LaceyBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Long Island2024With Eilis LaceyBuy on Amazon

Novels

7 booksLiterary fiction
  1. 1The Heather Blazing1992With Eamon Redmond · Set in WexfordBuy on Amazon
  2. 2The Blackwater Lightship1999With Helen · Set in WexfordBuy on Amazon
  3. 3The Master2004With Henry James · Set in EnglandBuy on Amazon
  4. 4The Testament of Mary2012Set in IrelandBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Nora Webster2014With Nora Webster · Set in EnniscorthyBuy on Amazon
  6. 6House of Names2017With Clytemnestra · Set in MycenaeBuy on Amazon
  7. 7The Magician2021With Thomas Mann · Set in Germany and AmericaBuy on Amazon

Who appears in which book

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Characters

9 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Enniscorthy and New York

Leads

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