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One Dublin One Book 2025: Dublin, written in our hearts

11 March 2025
One Dublin One Book aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. This annual project is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, which encourages reading for pleasure.
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Staff Pick: A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell

O’Connell writes incisively about Macarthur, the murders and indeed the political fallout.
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Staff Pick: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

For those willing to venture to gothic spaces with unsettling explicit descriptions, this bold novel won’t disappoint
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Staff Pick: In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor

Review of the poet's debut collection
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Staff Pick: Written on the Body

Copies of Written on the Body are available in our libraries, and also as an eBook on Borrowbox.
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Staff Pick: What you are looking for is in the library

Review of 'What you are looking for is in the library' by Michiko Aoyama and translated by Alison Watts
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Top Ten Adult nonfiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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Top Ten Adult fiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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Top Ten Junior fiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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Top Ten Junior nonfiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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Staff Pick: The Cazalet Chronicles

The five novels, tracing the fortunes of an upper-middle-class family, are set in Sussex and London in the period surrounding the Second World War.
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