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Donal Ryan Books in Order

Donal Ryan has written 8 books, published between 2012 and 2024. The first book is The Spinning Heart (2012) and the newest is Heart, Be at Peace (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2012–2024
Pages on record
619 in 3 of 8 books
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Donal Ryan is an Irish literary novelist, born in 1976, whose eight catalogued books comprise seven novels and a collection of short stories. Ireland supplies the ground: families, fathers and sons, bereavement, land, and the aftermath of financial collapse. The Spinning Heart (2012) opens the run and Heart, Be at Peace (2024) closes it, taking in The Thing About December (2013), All We Shall Know (2016), From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018) and Strange Flowers (2020). Every Ryan novel has reached number one in Ireland, and Heart, Be at Peace took the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

How many Donal Ryan books are there?

Donal Ryan has 8 books, released between 2012 and 2024.

Donal Ryan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Donal Ryan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (2012)
  2. Cover of All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan (2016)
  1. 1
    The Spinning Heart2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  2. 2
    The Thing About December2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  3. 3
    A Slanting of the Sun2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  4. 4
    All We Shall Know2016 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016187
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  5. 5
    From a Low and Quiet Sea2018 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018192
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  6. 6
    Strange Flowers2020 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020240
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  7. 7
    The Queen of Dirt Island2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  8. 8
    Heart, Be at Peace2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Donal Ryan books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

8 books

8 Donal Ryan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Donal Ryan books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 8 Donal Ryan books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Donal Ryan

Start with The Spinning Heart (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Donal Ryan book?

Heart, Be at Peace (2024) is the newest Donal Ryan book released so far.

Is there a new Donal Ryan book coming?

No next Donal Ryan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Donal Ryan has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 2 nominations for Donal Ryan. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Donal Ryan at a glance

Still publishing
Donal Ryan published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Donal Ryan books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
619 pages across the 3 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Donal Ryan books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Donal Ryan books are about

5 of the 8 Donal Ryan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.