Long Island
Irish novelist, born 1955. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2009.
Long Island is a 2024 novel by Colm Tóibín. It was shortlisted for the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year in 2025.
In family saga
On 2 of the 10 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- First published
- 2024
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2025
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Family saga, Love story
- Series
- Book 2 of Brooklyn
Is Long Island worth reading?
2 of the 10 best-of lists it could have made include it: the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2025) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Long Island
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2025), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781035029464
How critics, prizes and readers rate Long Island
Prize juries and readers rate it about equally: it earned 22% on prize lists and 20% on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Long Island
If you liked Long Island, try Brooklyn.
