Maggie O'Farrell best books, ranked
Maggie O'Farrell — 2 titles in the rankings, first published between 2020 and 2026. They average 8.1, above the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note Northern Irish-born novelist, raised in Wales and Scotland, best known for Hamnet, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and is one of the best rated books here. It imagines the family of a Stratford glover’s son, never named as Shakespeare, through his wife Agnes, a healer with uncanny instincts, and the death of their eleven-year-old son in 1596, the grief that the play Hamlet later echoes. Lyrical, intimate and devastating; filmed in 2025. Her newer novel Land has few ratings so far.
- Ranked titles
- 2 books
- Average score
- 8.1
- Total ratings
- 590
- First published
- 2020–2026
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Books by Maggie O'Farrell
Other books by Maggie O'Farrell
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 2000After You'd Gone
- 2006The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- 2010The Hand That First Held Mine
- 2016This Must Be the Place
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