New York Times Bestsellers
Sally Rooney has placed 3 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 74 weeks on the charts. 2 titles reached #1.
Normal People
Sally Rooney Other Novels
34 weeks on the Times Paperback Trade Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Apr 2019 · 52 weeks across 3 NYT lists
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney Other Novels
8 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #2 · debuted Sep 2024 · 12 weeks across 2 NYT lists
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Reading Order
4 series · 35 booksSally Rooney Other Novels
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conversations with Friends | 2017 | Dublin Literary Award 2019Europese Literatuurprijs 2018Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | Normal People | 2018 | 🏆 Costa Book Award 2018🏆 Costa Novel Award 2018Women's Prize for Fiction 2019Goodreads Choice Award 2019Booker Prize 2018Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | Beautiful World, Where Are You | 2021 | 🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2021Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | Intermezzo | 2024 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Sally Rooney Screenplays
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Normal People: The Scripts with Lenny Abrahamson | 2021 | 🏆 Costa Book Award 2018🏆 Costa Novel Award 2018Women's Prize for Fiction 2019Goodreads Choice Award 2019Booker Prize 2018Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
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| 1 | A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor | 1955 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Inner Room (Short Story) by Robert Aickman | 1968 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Daughters of Passion (Short Story) by Julia O'Faolain | 1982 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Giacomo Joyce (Short Story) by Richard Ellmann | 1983 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver | 1989 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Shanti (Short Story) by Vikram Chandra | 1997 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | An Elegy for Easterly (Short Story) by Petina Gappah | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Short Story) by Alan Bennett | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 10 | The Cheater's Guide to Love (Short Story) by Junot Díaz | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 11 | Mrs Fox (Short Story) by Sarah Hall | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | Mostly Hero (Short Story) by Anna Burns | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 13 | Mr Salary (Short Story) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | Come Rain or Come Shine (Short Story) by Kazuo Ishiguro | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 15 | The Victim (Short Story) by P.D. James | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 16 | Dante and the Lobster (Short Story) by Samuel Beckett | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 17 | Paradise (Short Story) by Edna O'Brien | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 18 | Cosmopolitan (Short Story) by Akhil Sharma | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 19 | The Lydia Steptoe Stories (Short Story) by Djuna Barnes | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 20 | Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 21 | Terrific Mother (Short Story) by Lorrie Moore | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 22 | The Country Funeral (Short Story) by John McGahern | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 23 | The Forester's Daughter (Short Story) by Claire Keegan | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 24 | Three Types of Solitude (Short Story) by Brian W. Aldiss | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 25 | A River in Egypt (Short Story) by David Means | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 26 | Fairy Tales (Short Story) by Marianne Moore | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 27 | Ghostly Stories (Short Story) by Celia Fremlin | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 28 | Intruders (Short Story) by Adrian Tomine | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Sally Rooney Anthologies
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six Shorts 2017 | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
About the Author
Sally Rooney is an Irish author and screenwriter. Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, where she also grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013.