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ⓘ About Emma Donoghue
Born on October 24, 1969, Emma Donaghue is a well-known, multiple award-winning Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian. She is best known for her novel Room, which became an international best seller with over 2 million copies sold to date. She also won the Stonewall Book Award for her 1995 novel Hood. She won acclaim from the LGTB community, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction for her 2000 novel Slammerkin. The novel Room was adapted into a feature film, and Donoghue wrote the screenplay for it. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated for three more Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Picture, but was not the winner in any of these categories.
All Book Series by Emma Donoghue
This Telling
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 2020 Anthology · Cheryl Strayed
Shine, Pamela! Shine!
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2020 Anthology · Kate Atkinson
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
Book 7 of 14 · published 2008
Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness
Book 8 of 14 · published 2011
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
Book 12 of 14 · published 2021
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering
Latest in the series · book 14 of 14 · published 2024
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Emma Donoghue?
Born on October 24, 1969, Emma Donaghue is a well-known, multiple award-winning Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian. She is best known for her novel Room, which became an international best seller with over 2 million copies sold to date. She also won the Stonewall Book Award for her 1995 novel Hood.
Which Emma Donoghue series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Out Of Line series, the earliest of Emma Donoghue's multi-book series: it opens with This Telling (2020) and runs to 7 books across 2020, ending with Shine, Pamela! Shine! (2020).
How many books has Emma Donoghue written?
Emma Donoghue has 50 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1993 and 2025. 10 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Out Of Line series with 7 books — and 40 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Emma Donoghue's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Emma Donoghue's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Finbar's Hotel (1999, 1 book), Lotterys Plus One (2017–2018, 2 books) and Out Of Line (2020, 7 books).
How are Emma Donoghue's books organised into series?
This guide splits Emma Donoghue's 50 books into 3 named series and 40 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Out Of Line (7 books, 2020); Lotterys Plus One (2 books, 2017–2018); Finbar's Hotel (1 book, 1999).