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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1995
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his fathe...



  • Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents a...



  • From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandh...



  • Novelist Colum McCann's Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him.There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of...



  • The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to t...



  • A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling G...



  • In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a q...



  • McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfo...








  • In such acclaimed novels as "Let the Great World Spin" and "TransAtlantic," National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more th...



  • From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon -- named for a s...



  • "American Mother is a book that will shake your soul out."—StingNational Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – i...


Award-Winning Books by Colum McCann

Let the Great World Spin
2009 National Book Award -- Fiction
2010 Ambassador Book Award -- Fiction
2010 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award -- Fiction
2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colum McCann has published 12 books.

Colum McCann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, American Mother, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Colum McCann, Songdogs, was published in October 1995.

No. Colum McCann does not write books in series.