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ⓘ About Claire Keegan
In 1992 she returned to Ireland, and began writing in 1994, spending a year living in Cardiff. She took an MA in Creative Writing and taught undergraduates for one year at the University of Wales. Claire has won the Rooney Prize for Literature, The William Trevor Prize, the Olive Cook Award, the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, the Francis MacManus Award, and Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009. Her stories have been published in Granta, The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and The Paris Reviewer, and have been translated into twenty languages. “Foster” was adapted into an acclaimed movie called “The Quiet Girl”, which was released in 2022. “Antarctica” is the first short story collection and was released in 1999.
All Book Series by Claire Keegan
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Series opener · book 1 of 28 · published 1955 Anthology · Flannery O'Connor
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Claire Keegan?
In 1992 she returned to Ireland, and began writing in 1994, spending a year living in Cardiff. She took an MA in Creative Writing and taught undergraduates for one year at the University of Wales. Claire has won the Rooney Prize for Literature, The William Trevor Prize, the Olive Cook Award, the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, the Francis MacManus Award, and Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009.
Which Claire Keegan series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Stories series, the earliest of Claire Keegan's multi-book series: it opens with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and runs to 28 books across 1955–2019, ending with Intruders (2019).
How many books has Claire Keegan written?
Claire Keegan has 33 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1955 and 2023. 28 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Faber Stories series with 28 books — and 5 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Claire Keegan's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Claire Keegan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Stories (1955–2019, 28 books).
How are Claire Keegan's books organised into series?
This guide splits Claire Keegan's 33 books into 1 named series and 5 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019).