# Colm Tóibín bibliography

Colm Tóibín FRSL (/ˈkʌləm toʊˈbiːn/ KUL-əm toh-BEEN, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Irish:; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the David Cohen Prize and the Folio Prize, amongst other awards.

## Articles

Asked in 2021 how many articles he had written, Tóibín was uncertain: "I suppose thousands might be accurate", he told The New Yorker.

### Literary book reviews

| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
| 1993 | Tóibín, Colm (8 April 1993). "The Built-in Reader". London Review of Books. Vol. 15, no. 7. | Beckett, Samuel (1992). O'Brien, Eoin; Fournier, Edith (eds.). Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Black Cat. ISBN 0-7145-4212-1. |
| 1994 | Tóibín, Colm (26 May 1994). "Insiderish". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 10. | Brodkey, Harold (1994). Profane Friendship. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-03775-7. |
| 1994 | Tóibín, Colm (4 August 1994). "The South". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 15. | One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop. Chatto & Windus. 1994. ISBN 0-7011-6195-7. |
| 1995 | Tóibín, Colm (20 April 1995). "Like Learning to Swim in Early Middle Age". London Review of Books. Vol. 17, no. 8. | Gunn, Thom (1994). Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-17196-6. |
| 1996 | Tóibín, Colm (5 September 1996). "Why should you be the only ones that sin?". London Review of Books. Vol. 18, no. 17. | Heilbut, Anthony (1996). Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-39-455633-8.; Hayman, Ronald (1996). Thomas Mann: A Biography. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-2531-5.; Prater, Donald (1995). Thomas Mann: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-815861-0. |
| 2000 | Tóibín, Colm (10 August 2000). "Gaelic Gloom". London Review of Books. Vol. 22, no. 15. | Sampson, Denis (1998). Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist. Marino Books. ISBN 1-86023-078-4. |
| 2003 | Tóibín, Colm (4 February 2003). "A Djinn speaks". London Review of Books. Vol. 25, no. 4. | Saddlemyer, Ann (2002). Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-811232-7. |
| 2004 | Tóibín, Colm (7 October 2004). "Return to Catalonia". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LI, no. 15. | Cercas, Javier; McLean, Anne (2004). Soldiers of Salamis. Bloosmbury. ISBN 978-1582343846. |
| 2006 | Tóibín, Colm (11 May 2006). "Don't abandon me". London Review of Books. Vol. 28, no. 9. | Williamson, Edwin (2005). Borges: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-024657-6. |
| 2006 | Tóibín, Colm (30 November 2006). "A Thousand Prayers". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 19. | Li, Yiyun (2005). A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Random House. ISBN 978-1400063123. |
| 2007 | Tóibín, Colm (26 April 2007). "Dissecting the Body". London Review of Books. Vol. 29, no. 8. | McEwan, Ian (2007). On Chesil Beach. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-08118-4. |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (20 December 2007). "The Shadow of Rose". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIV, no. 20. | Williams, Tennessee (2007). Bradham Thornton, Margaret (ed.). Notebooks. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300116823. |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (3 January 2008). "A Man with My Trouble". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 1. | Walker, Pierre; Zacharias, Greg (2007). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–72: Volume I. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2584-8.; Walker, Pierre; Zacharias, Greg (2007). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–72: Volume II. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2607-4. |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (17 April 2008). "A Great American Visionary". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LV, no. 6. | Crane, Hart (2006). Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters. Library of America. ISBN 978-1931082990. |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (6 November 2008). "I Could Sleep with All of Them". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 21. | Weiss, Andrea (2008). In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-88672-5. |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (14 May 2009). "Follow-the-Leader". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 9. | Travisano, Thomas; Hamilton, Saskia, eds. (2008). Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-24308-2. |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (11 June 2009). "The Admirable Mrs James". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVI, no. 10. | Gunter, Susan, E. (2009). Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803215696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); Fisher, Paul (2008). House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family. Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0805074901. |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (6 August 2009). "Who to Be". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 15. | Dow Fehsenfeld, Martha; More Overback, Lois, eds. (2009). The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929–40. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86793-1. |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (5 November 2009). "My God, the Suburbs!". London Review of Books. Vol. 31, no. 21. | Bailey, Blake (2009). Cheever: A Life. Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-43790-5. |
| 2010 | Tóibín, Colm (14 January 2010). "The Genius of Thom Gunn". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVII, no. 1. | Gunn, Thom (2009). Kleinzahler, August (ed.). Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374258597.; Greville, Fulke (2009). Gunn, Thom (ed.). Selected Poems of Fulke Greville. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226308463.; Weiner, Joshua, ed. (2009). At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89043-2. |
| 2011 | Tóibín, Colm (29 September 2011). "The Mysterious Powers of the Word". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LVIII, no. 14. | Gordimer, Nadine (2011). Life Times: Stories, 1952–2007. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374270537.; Gordimer, Nadine (2010). Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950–2008. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06628-9. |
| 2011 | Tóibín, Colm (3 November 2011). "Mann v. Mann". London Review of Books. Vol. 33, no. 21. | Juers, Evelyn (2011). House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-461-5. |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (10 May 2012). "Going Beyond the Limits". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIX, no. 8. | Barnes, Julian (2011). The Sense of an Ending. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-224-09415-3. |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (13 September 2012). "A Man of No Mind". London Review of Books. Vol. 34, no. 17. | Vargas Llosa, Mario; Grossman, Edith (2012). The Dream of the Celt. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27571-7. |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (9 December 2012). "The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan – review: A scholarly update of a book illustrated by monks reveals why it meant so much to James Joyce". The Guardian. | Meehan, Bernard (2012). The Book of Kells. Thames & Hudson. |
| 2013 | Tóibín, Colm (8 August 2013). "Places Never Explained". London Review of Books. Vol. 35, no. 15. | Post, Jonathan, ed. (2012). The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0730-2. |
| 2014 | Tóibín, Colm (10 July 2014). "Lust and Loss in Madrid: The novels of Javier Marías and Antonio Muñoz Molina". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXI, no. 12. | Marías, Javier; Jull Costa, Margaret (2013). The Infatuations. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307960726.; Muñoz Molina, Antonio; Grossman, Edith (2013). In The Night of Time. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0547547848. |
| 2014 | Tóibín, Colm (23 October 2014). "Putting Religion in Its Place". London Review of Books. Vol. 36, no. 20. | Robinson, Marilynne (2014). Lila. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-880-5. |
| 2015 | Tóibín, Colm (9 July 2015). "The Hard-Won Truth of the North". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXII, no. 12. | Dagerman, Stig; Macpherson Fulton, Robin (2011). German Autumn. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677528.; Dagerman, Stig; Thompson, Laurie (2012). Island of the Doomed. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677986.; Dagerman, Stig; Mier-Cruz, Benjamin (2013). A Burnt Child. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677993.; Dagerman, Stig; Hartman, Steven (2013). Sleet: Selected Stories. Godine. ISBN 978-1567924466. |
| 2015 | Tóibín, Colm (17 December 2015). "She Played Hard with Happiness". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXII, no. 20. | Lispector, Clarice; Dodson, Katrina (2015). Moser, Benjamin (ed.). The Complete Stories. New Directions. ISBN 9780811219631. |
| 2017 | Tóibín, Colm (11 May 2017). "Shadows & Ghosts". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXIV, no. 8. | Coetzee, J. M. (2017). The Schooldays of Jesus. Viking. ISBN 978-0735222663. |
| 2017 | Tóibín, Colm (6 July 2017). "Joyce in Court and The Ulysses Trials review". The Guardian. | Hardiman, Adrian (2017). Joyce in Court. Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781786691583.; Hassett, Joseph M. (2016). The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law. The Lilliput Press. ISBN 978-1843516682. |
| 2018 | Tóibín, Colm (22 February 2018). "The Heart of Conrad". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 65, no. 3. pp. 8–11. | Jasanoff, Maya. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Penguin. |
| 2018 | Tóibín, Colm (13 September 2018). "On Not Being Sylvia Plath". London Review of Books. Vol. 40, no. 17. | Gunn, Thom (2017). Selected Poems. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-32769-0. |
| 2018 | Tóibín, Colm (11 October 2018). "The Aristocracy's Swann Song". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXV, no. 15. | Weber, Caroline (2018). Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307961785. |
| 2020 | Tóibín, Colm (7 May 2020). "Wobble in My Mind". London Review of Books. Vol. 42, no. 9. | Hamilton, Saskia, ed. (2020). The Dolphin Letters, 1970–79: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-35741-3.; Lowell, Robert (2019). Hamilton, Saskia (ed.). The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–73. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-53827-9. |
| 2021 | Tóibín, Colm (10 June 2021). "We Must Be Light!". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXVIII, no. 10. | Hammer, Langdon; Yenser, Stephen, eds. (2021). A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-101-87550-6. |
| 2021 | Tóibín, Colm (1 August 2021). "The Pages by Hugo Hamilton review – a book with a story to tell". The Guardian. | Hamilton, Hugo (2021). The Pages. 4th Estate. ISBN 978-0008451660. |
| 2021 | Tóibín, Colm (12 August 2021). "I haven't been I". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 16. | Zenith, Richard (2021). Pessoa: An Experimental Life. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-241-53413-7. |
| 2022 | Tóibín, Colm (27 January 2022). "Snail Slow". London Review of Books. Vol. 44, no. 2. | Shovlin, Frank, ed. (2021). The Letters of John McGahern. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-32666-2. |
| 2023 | Tóibín, Colm (7 September 2023). "Arruginated". London Review of Books. Vol. 45, no. 17. | Slote, Sam; Mamigonian, Marc A.; Turner, John (2022). Annotations to James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886458-5. |
| 2023 | Tóibín, Colm (21 December 2023). "In the Streets of Barcelona". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LXX, no. 20. | Goytisolo, Luis; Riley, Brendan (2022). Antagonía [es]. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1628973983. |

### Introductions

| Year | Article | Subject | Notes |
| 2024 | Tóibín, Colm (5 October 2024). "Colm Tóibín on poet Paul Durcan turning 80: 'Beside the wildness, there is tenderness'". The Irish Times. | Paul Durcan | This is the introduction to 80 at 80, a selection of the poet's works, which was edited by Niall MacMonagle and published on 16 October 2024, to coincide with Durcan's 80th birthday. |

### Himself, on his own work

| Year | Article | Subject | Notes |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (17 February 2012). "Colm Tóibín: writers and their families". The Guardian. | Himself and his family; his novel The Heather Blazing | With discursions onto W. B. Yeats; V. S. Naipaul; Jorge Luis Borges; George Moore; James Joyce; John Millington Synge; Henry James; the Mann family; James Baldwin; Samuel Beckett |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (19 October 2012). "The inspiration for The Testament of Mary". The Guardian. | His novel The Testament of Mary | On Mary, mother of Jesus |
| 2013 | Tóibín, Colm (23 May 2013). "Those Dickens Kids: What Happened?". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LX, no. 9. | His novel The South | — |
| 2014 | Tóibín, Colm (2 October 2014). "Colm Tóibín: the literature of grief". The Guardian. | His novel Nora Webster | With discursions onto Mary Lavin's short stories; Hamlet; Anne Carson, Euripides, Sophocles and Fiona Shaw; C. S. Lewis, Julian Barnes and Joyce Carol Oates; Joan Didion and Francisco Goldman; Nadine Gordimer and Juan Goytisolo |

### Other articles on literature

| Year | Article | Subject | Notes |
| 1994 | Tóibín, Colm (9 June 1994). "How many nipples had Graham Greene?". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 11. | Graham Greene | Auctioning his letters |
| 2001 | Tóibín, Colm (9 August 2001). "Lady Gregory's Toothbrush". The New York Review of Books. Vol. XLVIII, no. 13. | — | — |
| 2001 | Tóibín, Colm (20 September 2001). "The Last Witness". London Review of Books. Vol. 23, no. 18. | James Baldwin | Also covers Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement and William Styron |
| 2006 | Tóibín, Colm (9 February 2006). "Henry James's New York". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 2. | Henry James | — |
| 2006 | Tóibín, Colm (27 April 2006). "Happy Birthday, Sam!". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIII, no. 7. | Samuel Beckett | Including his attendance at a lecture by Carl Jung |
| 2007 | Tóibín, Colm (5 April 2007). "My Darlings". London Review of Books. Vol. 29, no. 7. | Samuel Beckett | His Irish actors |
| 2007 | Tóibín, Colm (19 July 2007). "Creating 'The Portrait of a Lady'". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LIV, no. 12. | Henry James (and George Eliot) | — |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (20 March 2008). "The Art of Being Found Out". London Review of Books. Vol. 30, no. 6. | Henry James | — |
| 2008 | Tóibín, Colm (23 October 2008). "James Baldwin & Barack Obama". The New York Review of Books. Vol. LV, no. 16. | James Baldwin | — |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (26 October 2009). "Hopkins: The Odd Man Out". The New York Review of Books (online). | Gerard Manley Hopkins | — |
| 2011 | Tóibín, Colm (17 March 2011). "The Importance of Aunts". London Review of Books. Vol. 33, no. 6. | — | (in the 19th-century novel) |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (15 June 2012). "Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers". The Guardian. | Dubliners | Published the day before Bloomsday, in a month when James Joyce's short story collection was resissued |
| 2012 | Tóibín, Colm (10 August 2012). "Brian Friel: trapped in silence". The Guardian. | Brian Friel | — |
| 2013 | Tóibín, Colm (22 February 2013). "The Sweet Troubles of Proust". The New York Review of Books (online). | Marcel Proust | — |
| 2013 | Tóibín, Colm (30 August 2013). "Seamus Heaney's books were events in our lives". The Guardian. | Seamus Heaney | His generosity; Dennis O'Driscoll; Peter Brook; the change in Heaney's work after his eighth collection Seeing Things (1991) |
| 2014 | Tóibín, Colm (18 January 2014). "Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star is as bewildering as it is brilliant". The Guardian. | The Hour of the Star | In the month that this, with other Clarice Lipsector titles, was reissued |
| 2015 | Tóibín, Colm (15 April 2015). "Gawking at Quixote". The New York Review of Books (online). | Don Quixote | — |
| 2015 | Tóibín, Colm (28 August 2015). "I embraced Henry James's fight against complacency". The Guardian. | The Ambassadors | The effects this Henry James novel had on Tóibín |
| 2016 | Tóibín, Colm (29 December 2016). "James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist , 100 years on". The Guardian. | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 29 December 2016 was the centenary of its publication. |
| 2016 | Tóibín, Colm (29 December 2016). "Colm Tóibín on that fine writer Anthony Cronin". The Irish Times. | Anthony Cronin | See below |
| 2017 | Tóibín, Colm (24 January 2017). "Anthony Cronin obituary". The Guardian. | Anthony Cronin | Obituary for "an important mentor" of Tóibín |
| 2020 | Tóibín, Colm (9 October 2020). "Louise Glück: Colm Tóibín on a brave and truthful Nobel winner". The Guardian. | Louise Glück | 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 2023 | Tóibín, Colm (17 October 2023). "Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear". The Guardian. | Louise Glück | Response to Glück's death |
| 2024 | Tóibín, Colm (2 August 2024). "The Pitch of Passion". The New York Review of Books (online). | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 2 August 2024 was the centennial of James Baldwin's birth. |
* "Freud and the Writers", in Blauner, Andrew, ed., On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN 9780691242439

### Articles on other topics

| Year | Article | Subject | Notes |
| 1994 | Tóibín, Colm (6 January 1994). "In the Pyrenees". London Review of Books. Vol. 16, no. 1. | | — |
| 1998 | Tóibín, Colm (30 July 1998). "Erasures". London Review of Books. Vol. 20, no. 15. | The Great Famine | — |
| 2001 | Tóibín, Colm (29 November 2001). "11 September". London Review of Books. Vol. 23, no. 23. | September 11 attacks | Opposing Mary Beard's excuses for the September 11 attackers |
| 2009 | Tóibín, Colm (15 December 2009). "Missing the Point". London Review of Books. | Art, allegory and urination | — |
| 2021 | Tóibín, Colm (21 January 2021). "The Bergoglio Smile". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 2. | Pope Francis | — |

## Poems

| Title | Year | First published | Notes |
| "Cush Gap, 2007" | 2011 | The Times Literary Supplement | Cush Gap, a location in County Wexford, is also mentioned in works such as Brooklyn. |
| "Miró"; "In San Clemente"; "Lost for Words"; "Face"; "The Torturer's Art" | 2017 | The Times Literary Supplement | — |
| "Father & Son" | 2021 | The New York Review of Books | — |
| "Vinegar Hill" | 2022 | The New Yorker | — |

## Short stories

| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| "A Priest in the Family" | 2004 | London Review of Books | Mothers and Sons | — |
| "Barcelona, 1975" | 2005 | The Dublin Review | | On the first orgy that Toibín attended at the age of twenty, at the house of an older painter. "The story is entirely real", Tóibín later said. |
| "One Minus One" | 2007 | Tóibín, Colm (30 April 2007). "One Minus One". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 78–83. | | About the death of his mother |
| "Sleep" | 2015 | Tóibín, Colm (23 March 2015). "Sleep". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 78–83. | | — |
| "Summer of '38" | 2013 | Tóibín, Colm (4 March 2013). "Summer of '38". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 3. pp. 58–65. | | — |

## Books
### Non-fiction

* Martyrs and Metaphors, Letters from the New Island, vol. 1, no. 2., Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1987, ISBN 978-1-85186-036-4
* The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism, 1980–1990, Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1990, ISBN 978-1-85186-081-4
* Homage to Barcelona, Simon & Schuster, 1990, ISBN 978-0-671-71061-3 (revised edition Picador, 2002, ISBN 978-0-330-37356-2)
* Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Picador, 1994, ISBN 978-0-330-52097-3
* The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, Jonathan Cape, 1994, ISBN 978-0-224-03767-9
* Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives From Wilde to Almodovar, Picador, 2002, ISBN 978-0-330-49137-2 (First English edition; Australian edition published 2001)
* Lady Gregory's Toothbrush, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-299-18000-3
* The Use of Reason, Picador, 2006, ISBN 978-0-330-44573-3
* Sean Scully: Walls of Aran, Thames & Hudson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-54339-9
* A Guest at the Feast. A Memoir, Penguin, 2011, ISBN 978-0-241-96229-9
* New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and their Families, Penguin, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-6855-1
* On Elizabeth Bishop, Princeton University Press, 2015, ISBN 9780691154114
* Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, Scribner, 2018, ISBN 978-1476785172
* A Guest at the Feast: Essays, Viking, 2022, ISBN 9780241004630

#### Collaborative

* Walking Along the Border. With photographs by Tony O'Shea. London: Macdonald. 1987. ISBN 9780356172484.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) (republished in 1994 without photographs as Bad Blood).
* Dubliners, O'Shea, Tony (illus.), London: Macdonald, 1990, ISBN 0-356-17641-X{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
* Tóibín, Colm; Callil, Carmel (1999), The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-34182-0
* The Irish Famine. A Documentary. With Diarmaid Ferriter, Profile Books Limited, 2001. ISBN 9781861972491
* Schneider, Gregor; O'Hagan, Andrew; Tóibín, Colm (2004), Die Familie Schneider, Artangel, ISBN 978-3-86521-236-8

#### As editor

* Tóibín, Colm, ed. (1995), The Guinness Book of Ireland, Guinness World Records, ISBN 978-0-85112-597-8
* Tóibín, Colm, ed. (1996), The Kilfenora Teaboy: A Study of Paul Durcan, New Island Books, ISBN 978-1-874597-31-5
* Tóibín, Colm, ed. (1999), The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction, Penguin/Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-85497-4

### Novels

* The South, Serpent's Tail, 1990, ISBN 978-0-330-32333-8
* The Heather Blazing, Picador, 1992, ISBN 978-0-330-32125-9
* The Story of the Night, Picador, 1996, ISBN 978-0-330-34017-5
* The Blackwater Lightship, McClelland and Stewart, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7710-8561-1
* The Master, Picador, 2004, ISBN 978-0-330-48565-4
* Brooklyn, Dublin: Tuskar Rock Press, 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23566-3
* The Testament of Mary, Viking, 2012, ISBN 978-1451688382
* Nora Webster, Scribner, 2014, ISBN 978-1439138335
* House of Names, Scribner, 2017, ISBN 978-1501140211
* The Magician, Scribner, 2021, ISBN 978-0241004616
* Long Island, Picador, 2024, ISBN 978-1-03-502944-0; Scribner, 2024, ISBN 978-1-4767-8511-0

### Short story collections

* Mothers and Sons, Picador, 2006, ISBN 978-0-330-44182-7
* The Empty Family, Penguin/Viking, 2010, ISBN 978-0-670-91817-1

### Poetry collections

* Vinegar Hill, Beacon Press, 2022, ISBN 978-0807006535

## Plays

* Beauty in a Broken Place (staged in Dublin in 2004)

## Screenwriting

* Return to Montauk (2017)