Bad Blood

A Walk Along the Irish Border

1988

The Shortest Day

2020

The Penguin Book of the International Short Story

2026

Nora Webster

2014

The Magician

2021

Love in a Dark Time

And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

2002

A Very Irish Christmas

The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time

2021

Vinegar Hill

Poems

2022

The Empty Family

2010

All a Novelist Needs

Colm Tóibín on Henry James

2010

The South

1990

The Use of Reason

2006

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Writers and Their Families

2012

A Long Winter

2025

A Long Winter

2025

The Sign of the Cross

Travels in Catholic Europe

1994

A Guest at the Feast

2022

House of Names

2017

On Elizabeth Bishop

2015

On James Baldwin

2024

The Master

2004

The Story of the Night

1996

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

2018

The News from Dublin

from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island

2026

The Blackwater Lightship

1999

The Modern Library

1999

Brooklyn

2009

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

2002

The Heather Blazing

1992

Beauty in a Broken Place

2004

The Irish Famine

1999

Homage to Barcelona

1990

Mothers and Sons

2006

Long Island

2024

Summer of '38

2013

The News from Dublin

short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island

2026

Long island

2025

The News From Dublin

2026

Pale Sister

2019

The Testament of Mary

2012