Brooklyn
Irish novelist, born 1955. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2009.
Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Colm Tóibín. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2009.
In family saga
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- First published
- 2009
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2009
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Love story, Family saga
Is Brooklyn worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2009) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 51 | See the list |
Best edition of Brooklyn
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2015), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2015)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780241972700
How critics, prizes and readers rate Brooklyn
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 25% of the points available on prize lists, against 14% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Brooklyn
If you liked Brooklyn, try Long Island.
