Recommended Reads

10 Recommended Reads by You

1.      The Family on Paradise Street......Dermot Bolger          
2.      Water for Elephants......Sarah Gruen
3.      One Day ........David Nicholls
4.      We need to talk about Kevin.......Lionel Shriver
5.      Room.......Emma Donoghue
6.      The Time Traveller's Wife........Audrey Niffenegger
7.      Afterwards.......Rosamund Lupton
8.      The Girl Who Played With Fire…....Steig Larsson
9.      Around Ireland with a Fridge..........Tony Hawkes
10.      Tom Crean: unsung hero of the Scott and Shackleton expeditions.......Michael Smith

 10 Recommended Kid’s Books

1.         Matilda…..Roald Dahl
2.         Holes.......Louis Sachar
3.         Room on the Broom….Julia Donaldson
4.         Stormbreaker........Anthony Horowitz
5.         Charlie and the great glass elevator..........Roald Dahl
6.         The Gruffalo….Julia Donaldson
7.         Dog Days….Jeff Kinney
8.         The Suitcase Kid.......Jacqueline Wilson
9.         Horrid Henry’s Revenge……Francesca Simon
10.         Big Nate Strikes again..........Lincoln Peirce

Ghost Light by Irish author Joseph O'Connor was the most borrowed book in Irish Libraries in 2011, according to figures published by The Library Council of Ireland