Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland on December 15th, 1930 and passed away at the age of 93 on July 27th, 2024.

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Edna O'Brien Stats: The highest rated book by Edna O'Brien on Book Notification is The Little Red Chairs, a Standalone novel. The second-highest rated book is In the Forest, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by Edna O'Brien on Book Notification is The Little Red Chairs, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is In the Forest, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Edna O'Brien books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of The Country Girls Trilogy Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Country Girls
1960
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Girl with Green Eyes
1962
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Girls in Their Married Bliss
1964
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List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

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1
August Is A Wicked Month
1965
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2
Casualties of Peace
1966
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3
Zee & Co.
1971
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4
A Pagan Place
1971
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5
Night
1973
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6
Johnny I Hardly Knew You
1977
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7
The Dazzle
1981
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8
The Rescue
1983
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9
The High Road
1988
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10
On The Bone
1989
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11
Time and Tide
1992
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12
House of Splendid Isolation
1994
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13
Down by the River
1997
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14
Wild Decembers
1999
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15
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In the Forest
2002
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16
The Light of Evening
2006
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17
10
The Little Red Chairs
2015
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18
Girl
2019
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List of Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Love Object
1968
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2
Three Dublin Plays
1969
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3
A Scandalous Woman And Other Stories
1974
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4
Collector's Choice
1978
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5
A Rose in the Heart
1979
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6
A Fanatic Heart
1984
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7
Lantern Slides
1990
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8
Edna O'Brien Reader
1994
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9
Mrs. Reinhardt
1996
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10
Irish Revel
1998
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11
Returning
1998
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12
Triptych and Iphigenia
2005
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13
Saints and Sinners
2011
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List of Plays in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Virginia
1981
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2
Triptych
2005
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3
Haunted
2011
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List of Picture Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Christmas Treat
1982
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Shovel Kings
2009
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2
Joyce's Women
2022
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Mother Ireland
1976
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2
James and Nora
1981
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3
Vanishing Ireland
1987
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4
Byron in Love
2009
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5
Country Girl
2012
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List of Faber Stories Books in Publication Order

A collection of stories by renowned authors, offering diverse and engaging tales.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)
1955
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The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)
1968
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3
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)
1982
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4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)
1983
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5
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)
1989
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6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)
1997
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7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)
1998
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8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)
2009
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9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)
2011
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10
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)
2012
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11
10
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)
2014
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12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)
2014
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13
2
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)
2016
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14
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)
2019
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15
The Victim (By: P.D. James)
2019
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16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)
2019
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17
Paradise
2019
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18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)
2019
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19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)
2019
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20
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)
2019
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21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)
2019
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22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)
2019
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23
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)
2019
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24
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)
2019
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25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)
2019
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26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)
2019
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27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)
2019
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28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)
2019
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List of Selected Shorts Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (With: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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5
Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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6
Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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7
Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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8
Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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9
Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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10
Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, Anthony Rapp, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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13
The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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16
New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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17
Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
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List of Penguin Lives Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
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Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)
1960
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2
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)
1999
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3
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)
1999
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4
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White)
1999
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5
Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry)
1999
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6
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)
1999
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7
James Joyce
1999
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8
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)
2000
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9
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)
2000
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10
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)
2000
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11
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)
2000
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12
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)
2000
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13
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)
2001
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14
Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields)
2001
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15
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong)
2001
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16
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)
2001
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17
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)
2001
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18
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)
2001
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19
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)
2002
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20
Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan)
2002
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21
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)
2002
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22
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley)
2002
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23
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)
2002
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24
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Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)
2003
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25
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)
2003
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26
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)
2004
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27
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)
2004
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28
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson)
2006
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29
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)
2007
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30
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)
2008
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31
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)
2008
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32
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)
2011
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List of Edna O'Brien Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Women and Fiction
1975
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2
Arabian Days
1977
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3
Best for Winter
1979
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Winter's Tales
1980
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5
Winter's Tales 26
1981
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6
Tales for the Telling
1986
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7
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
1987
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8
Women Writers at Work
1989
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9
Friendship
1990
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10
New Writing From Ireland
1994
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11
Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien (Josephine Edna O\'Brien) was born on December 15th, 1930. Edna passed away July 27th, 2024 at 93 years old. Edna O'Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland.

Edna O'Brien is probably best known for her Standalone Novels. There are currently 18 novels available. The first standalone was released in 1965 with the novel August Is A Wicked Month. The most recently released novel was Girl which was released in 2019.

Edna O'Brien also wrote the Collections series which has 13 books including The Love Object and Three Dublin Plays.

Edna O'Brien: Awards & Accolades

O'Brien's book, Lantern Slides won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Best Fiction, in 1990.

Edna O'Brien books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Time and Tide was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Best Fiction, in 1992. The Little Red Chairs was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Female Narrator, in 2017.

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Edna O'Brien: F.A.Q

When was Edna O'Brien Born?

Edna O'Brien was born on December 15th, 1930.

When did Edna O'Brien die?

Edna O'Brien died on July 27th, 2024 at 93 years old.

Where was Edna O'Brien Born?

Edna O'Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland.

What book awards has Edna O'Brien won?

O'Brien's book, Lantern Slides won the award Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Best Fiction, in 1990.

What was the first book Edna O'Brien wrote?

The first book written by Edna O'Brien was The Country Girls, published in 1960.

What was the most recent book Edna O'Brien wrote?

Her most recently released work was Joyce's Women (a short story) on October 27th, 2022.

How many books has Edna O'Brien written?

Edna O'Brien has written 48 books across 11 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 3 books in The Country Girls Trilogy Series
  • 18 Standalone Novels
  • 13 Collections
  • 3 Plays
  • 1 Picture Books
  • 2 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 5 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Faber Stories Series
  • 1 book in the Selected Shorts Series
  • 1 book in the Penguin Lives Series

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