Best Irish authors

Irish authors ranked by the scores readers give their books. For a small island, Ireland has an outsized literary reputation, from James Joyce's Dublin to Bram Stoker's Dracula and on to Sally Rooney's quiet contemporary novels. Irish writing is prized for wit, melancholy and a distinctive voice. The list below orders Irish authors by how readers rate their books.

Ranked by each author’s score — the average of their books’ reader ratings on BookRank. Citizenship data: Wikidata.