The Bridge

2026

The Penguin Book of the International Short Story

2026

The News from Dublin

short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island

2026

The News From Dublin

2026

The News from Dublin

from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island

2026

A Long Winter

2025

A Long Winter

2025

Long island

2025

On James Baldwin

2024

Long Island

2024

Vinegar Hill

Poems

2022

A Guest at the Feast

2022

A Very Irish Christmas

The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time

2021

The Magician

2021

The Shortest Day

2020

Pale Sister

2019

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

2018

House of Names

2017

On Elizabeth Bishop

2015

Nora Webster

2014

Summer of '38

2013

The Testament of Mary

2012

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Writers and Their Families

2012

All a Novelist Needs

Colm Tóibín on Henry James

2010

The Empty Family

2010

Brooklyn

2009

The Use of Reason

2006

Mothers and Sons

2006

The Master

2004

Beauty in a Broken Place

2004

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

2002

Love in a Dark Time

And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

2002

The Blackwater Lightship

1999

The Modern Library

1999

The Irish Famine

1999

The Story of the Night

1996

The Sign of the Cross

Travels in Catholic Europe

1994

The Heather Blazing

1992

Homage to Barcelona

1990

The South

1990

Bad Blood

A Walk Along the Irish Border

1988