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The inspiration behind the tear-inducing movie of the same name,P.S. I Love Youis an epic love story — with a twist. Gerry dies just before Holly turns 30, and he leaves her letters to guide and console her as the year after his death unfolds. Slowly, Holly transforms from a grieving widow to a woman bursting with creativity and strength, with Gerry’s spirit there every aching step of the way.
Buy It!P.S. I Love You, $7.20;amazon.com
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This gripping debut novel in the Dublin Murder Squad series is a tightly-plotted psychological thriller following an Irish detective as he attempts to solve the murder of a local 12-year-old girl - and to keep the terror of his childhood memories of a similar crime at bay.
Buy It!In the Woods,$15.30;amazon.com
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This hugely successful classic memoir chronicles the author’s “miserable Irish Catholic childhood” in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. McCourt manages to spin truly tragic tales of poverty, cruelty and near-starvation into profound and often funny anecdotes that make this book impossible to put down.
Buy It!Angela’s Ashes, $12.14;amazon.com
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Buy It!Gulliver’s Travels, $5.40;amazon.com
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Buy It!Ulysses, $9.96;amazon.com
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Set in the 1930s,thisis the story of Portia, an orphan who stays at her well-to-do half-brother’s home, where she ultimately meets her downfall. Eddie is handsome. He’s also good for nothing, which Portia learns when a lighter flashes in the dark. Portia is betrayed, and it’s a hurt that cuts so deep that she’s scarred forever.
Buy It!The Death of the Heart, $12.90;amazon.com
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This is thenovelthat first introduced the beloved and bloodthirsty Count Dracula, a vampire who tries to move from Transylvania to England to spawn more of the undead. His fight with Professor Van Helsing — the one mortal leading the battle against him — has inspired myriad adaptions on the stage and screen.
Buy It!Dracula, $5.50;amazon.com
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Buy It!The Chronicles of Narnia, $29.99;amazon.com
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Yeats was born in Ireland and later became known as one of the most influentialpoetsof the 1900s, both in his country and across the English-speaking world. As he once famously said: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
Buy It!The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, $7.99;amazon.com
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When O’Brien’s novels were first published, they were so shocking that some of them were burned. The story of her life is just as scintillating as her books. In her memoir, the novelist tracks her beginnings in County Clare to her divorce and life as a single mother. O’Brien also recounts stories of wild parties in London, where she met stars like Princess Margaret and Sean Connery. She writes of a number of famous men who tried to seduce her (like Marlon Brando and Richard Burton). “You might come toCountry Girlfor the gossip,“writes Dwight Garner of theNew York Times,“but you’ll stay for this memoir’s ardent portrait of a young woman struggling to find her identity both as a human being and a writer.”
Buy It!Country Girl, $9.99;amazon.com
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Buy It!Tara Road, $7.99;amazon.com
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This is Wilde’s only novel and it’s both creepy and beautiful — just like its main character. Dorian Gray is handsome and full of vigor, but with each depraved act his portrait decays. It serves as a record of his misdeeds that he keeps hidden away. A mix of sensuality and suspense, this philosophicalnovelhas been a hit since its publication in 1890.
Buy It!The Picture of Dorian Gray, $3.50;amazon.com
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