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Emma Donoghue Books in Order

Emma Donoghue has written 31 books, published between 1993 and 2025. The first book is Passions Between Women (1993) and the newest is The Paris Express (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
31
Published
1993–2025
Confirmed
1 of 31 titles
Pages on record
7,005 in 22 of 31 books
Reading time
117–175 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,005 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 31 titles with a page count on record.

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Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and literary historian, born in October 1969. Room (2010) became an international best-seller and a Booker Prize finalist, and Donoghue's screenplay of the film version earned an Academy Award nomination. Hood (1995) won the Stonewall Book Award, and Slammerkin took the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. In 2025 Donoghue received the Alice B Readers Award. The catalogue holds 31 books, from Passions Between Women (1993) to The Paris Express (2025), including the Lotterys Plus One series.

How many Emma Donoghue books are there?

Emma Donoghue has 31 books, released between 1993 and 2025. They include 2 series and 24 titles listed outside any series.

Emma Donoghue Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 31 Emma Donoghue 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 Passions Between Women by Emma Donoghue (1993)
  2. Cover of Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue (1994)
  3. Cover of Hood by Emma Donoghue (1995)
  4. Cover of Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue (1997)
  5. Cover of Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel by Emma Donoghue, book 1 of the Finbar's Hotel series (1999)
  6. Cover of The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories by Emma Donoghue, book 40 of the Mammoth Book Of… series (1999)
  7. Cover of Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue (2001)
  8. Cover of The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue (2002)
  9. Cover of Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue, book 1 of the Emma Donoghue Short Story series (2006)
  10. Cover of Landing by Emma Donoghue (2007)
  11. Cover of The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (2008)
  12. Cover of Room by Emma Donoghue (2010)
  13. Cover of Astray by Emma Donoghue (2012)
  14. Cover of Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (2014)
  15. Cover of Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays by Emma Donoghue (2015)
  16. Cover of Signatories by Emma Donoghue (2016)
  17. Cover of The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue, book 1 of the Lotterys Plus One series (2017)
  18. Cover of Akin by Emma Donoghue (2019)
  19. Cover of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (2020)
  20. Cover of Haven by Emma Donoghue (2022)
  21. Cover of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue (2023)
  1. 1
    Passions Between Women1993 · 362 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993362
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  2. 2
    Stir-Fry1994 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994240
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  3. 3
    Hood1995 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995336
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  4. 4
    Ladies And Gentlemen1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  5. 5
    Kissing the Witch1997 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997240
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  6. 6
    We are Michael Field1998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  7. 7
    Ladies' Night at Finbar's HotelFinbar's Hotel #11999 · 257 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999257
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  8. 8
    The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short StoriesMammoth Book Of… #401999 · 495 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999495
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  9. 9
    Slammerkin2001 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001390
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  10. 10
    The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits2002 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002272
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  11. 11
    Life Mask2004 · 672 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004672
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  12. 12
    Touchy SubjectsEmma Donoghue Short Story #12006 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006288
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  13. 13
    Landing2007 · 324 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007324
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  14. 14
    The Sealed Letter2008 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008416
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  15. 15
    Inseparable2010 · 271 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010271
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  16. 16
    Room2010 · 321 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010321
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  17. 17
    Three and a Half DeathsEmma Donoghue Short Story #22011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  18. 18
    Astray2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  19. 19
    Frog Music2014 · 403 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014403
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  20. 20
    Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays2015 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015224
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  21. 21
    Signatories2016 · 137 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016137
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  22. 22
    The Wonder2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  23. 23
    The Lotterys Plus OneLotterys Plus One #12017 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017336
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  24. 24
    Room the Play2017 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201796
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  25. 25
    The Lotterys More or LessLotterys Plus One #22018 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018285
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  26. 26
    Akin2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  27. 27
    Halfway to FreeOut Of Line #52020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
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  28. 28
    The Pull of the Stars2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020304
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  29. 29
    Haven2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  30. 30
    Learned by Heart2023 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2023336
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  31. 31
    The Paris Express2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Emma Donoghue 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.

Emma Donoghue Short Story

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Lotterys Plus One in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Lotterys Plus One
  2. 2. The Lotterys More or Less

Finbar's Hotel in order

1 book
  1. 1. Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Out Of Line in order

1 book
  1. 5. Halfway to Free

Mammoth Book Of… in order

1 book
  1. 40. The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories

Standalone books

24 books

24 Emma Donoghue titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Emma Donoghue books in order?

You only need to read Emma Donoghue books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Emma Donoghue

Start with Passions Between Women (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Emma Donoghue book?

The Paris Express (2025) is the newest Emma Donoghue book released so far.

Is there a new Emma Donoghue book coming?

No next Emma Donoghue 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 Emma Donoghue has won

Wikidata records 3 awards and 5 nominations for Emma Donoghue. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2010Wonfor Room
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction2008Won
  • Ferro-Grumley Award2002Won
  • Booker Prize2010Shortlistedfor Room
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction2008Shortlisted
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction2004Shortlisted
  • Otherwise Award1997Shortlisted
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction1994Shortlisted

Emma Donoghue at a glance

Still publishing
Emma Donoghue published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Emma Donoghue books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
7,005 pages across the 22 of 31 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Emma Donoghue books, 12 of 31, were published in the 2010s.

What the Emma Donoghue books are about

27 of the 31 Emma Donoghue books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: lesbians is tagged on 7 of 27. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.