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:
Publication Order of Finbar’s Hotel Books
Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel | (1999) |
Publication Order of Lotterys Plus One Books
The Lotterys Plus One | (2017) | |
The Lotterys More or Less | (2018) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Stir-Fry | (1994) | |
Hood | (1995) | |
Slammerkin | (2001) | |
Life Mask | (2004) | |
Landing | (2007) | |
The Sealed Letter | (2008) | |
Room | (2010) | |
Frog Music | (2014) | |
The Wonder | (2016) | |
Akin | (2019) | |
The Pull of the Stars | (2020) | |
Haven | (2022) | |
Learned by Heart | (2023) | |
The Paris Express | (2025) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Kissing the Witch | (1997) | |
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits | (2002) | |
Astray | (2012) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Touchy Subjects | (2006) | |
Three and a Half Deaths | (2011) | |
RED | (2012) |
Publication Order of Plays
Ladies And Gentlemen | (1996) | |
Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays | (2015) | |
Signatories | (2016) | |
Room the Play | (2017) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Passions Between Women | (1993) | |
We are Michael Field | (1998) | |
Inseparable | (2010) |
Publication Order of Out Of Line Books
This Telling | (2020) | |
Graceful Burdens | (2020) | |
Sweet Virginia | (2020) | |
The Contractors | (2020) | |
Halfway to Free | (2020) | |
Bear Witness | (2020) | |
Shine, Pamela! Shine! | (2020) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | |
The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories | (1999) | |
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction | (1999) | |
Poems Between Women | (1999) | |
Love and Sex | (2001) | |
One Hot Second: Stories About Desire | (2002) | |
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity | (2008) | |
Finding the Words | (2011) | |
Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness | (2011) | |
Love Alters:Stories of Lesbian Love and Erotica | (2013) | |
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century | (2021) | |
Furies | (2023) | |
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) |
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.