Listen back HERE to Tracy McEneaney from Waterford Libraries on the Today with David McCullagh show on RTÉ Radio 1 from Thursday 27th November.

Lots of brilliant book recommendations, available to borrow from your local library branch.

Books Mentioned: 

Adult Fiction:
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Hagtale by Sally O’Reilly
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
The Death of Us by Abigail Dean
The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards
The Grape Vine by Kate Kemp
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Adult Non-Fiction: 
The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson
Queer Georgians’ by Dr Anthony Delaney Adult Non-Fiction
Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Guiffre

Picture Books for Children:
Milo and the Mountain by Jamie Carroll
Bí ag Spraoi Liom by Sadhbh Devlin

Non-Fiction for Children: 
The History of Information by Chris Haughton

Young Adult Fiction: 
Shorelines by Ruth Ennis (available in February 2026)
The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle
The Murder Hypothesis by Sarah Wishart