Order of Emma Donoghue Books
Emma Donoghue is an Irish author of literary fiction novels and stories. Emma grew up in Dublin, attending Catholic convent schools there, aside from spending a year in New York when she was 10. In 1990, she earned a first-class honours B.A. in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. Emma has been able to earn her living as a full-time writer since the age of 23. After spending years commuting between England, Ireland and Canada, she settled in London, Ontario, Canada and lives there with her partner and their children.
Emma Donoghue made her debut as a published author in 1993 with the short story collection Kissing the Witch and the non-fiction book Passions Between Women. Below is a list of Emma Donoghue’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Finbar's Hotel Books
| Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lotterys Plus One Books
| The Lotterys Plus One | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lotterys More or Less | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Stir-Fry | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hood | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slammerkin | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Life Mask | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Landing | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sealed Letter | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Room | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Frog Music | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wonder | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Akin | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pull of the Stars | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Haven | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Learned by Heart | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Kissing the Witch | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Astray | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Touchy Subjects | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| RED | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
| Ladies And Gentlemen | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Signatories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Room the Play | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Passions Between Women | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We are Michael Field | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inseparable | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Out Of Line Books
| This Telling | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Graceful Burdens | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sweet Virginia | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Contractors | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Halfway to Free | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bear Witness | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shine, Pamela! Shine! | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poems Between Women | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love and Sex | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Hot Second: Stories About Desire | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Finding the Words | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love Alters:Stories of Lesbian Love and Erotica | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Furies | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel was written with Maeve Binchy, Dermot Bolger, Clare Boylan, Anne Haverty, Kate O’Riordan and Deirdre Purcell. RED also has stories by Cecelia Ahern, Rachel Cusk, Max Hastings, Victoria Hislop, Anthony Horowitz, Hanif Kureishi, Andrew Motion and Will Self.
If You Like Emma Donoghue Books, You’ll Love…
Emma Donoghue Synopses: Hood is a standalone title by Emma Donoghue. In the late ’70s, convent school teenagers Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic Ireland – until Cara dies in a car accident.
In The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.