St. Patrick's Day Book Bingo

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar: A YA romance set in Ireland with Sapphic and Bengali main characters.Hani and Ishu both want something from the other, and pretending to date may just get that done.

All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-doyle: When Deena's wild older sister Mandy goes missing, presumed dead, Deena refuses to believe it's true. Especially when letters start arriving--letters from Mandy--which proclaim that their family is not just stuck with bad luck or bad decisions but a curse, handed down to women from generation to generation. Mandy's gone to find the root of the curse before it's too late for Deena. 

Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat: A 14-year-old girl, Kit Byrne, living during the Great Famine of 1847 in Ireland. The Byrne family faces imminent eviction when their landlord, Lord Fraser, wants to repossess their land.

Fever by Mary Beth Keane: The woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City.

There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones: Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, prepares for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, she spends her senior year in Ireland, where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company.

The Radiant Road by Katherine Catmull: After years of living in America, Clare Macleod and her father are returning to Ireland, into the house Clare was born in. For Clare, the house is not only full of memories of her mother, but also of a mysterious boy with raven-dark hair and dreamlike nights filled with stars and magic. Clare soon discovers that the boy is as real as the fairy-making magic, and that they're both in great danger from an ancient foe. 

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: A close-knit group of friends on a quest to find and awaken a sleeping Welsh king has strong parallels to the Irish legend of Finn MacCoul, and its mystical theories about star-crossed love and otherworldly “ley lines” speak to ancient Celtic ideas about the existence of earthly magic.

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan: Instead of mermaids, Celtic folklore has selkies—seals who take human form, and become captive subservient wives to the men daring (and rude) enough to steal their sealskins. Gorgeous prose tells a dark and heartbreaking story of love, witchcraft, and human hungers, set on the stark and wild coast of the North Sea.

The Call by Peadar O’Guilin: In this Ireland, Irish fairies the Sidhe have cut off the island from the rest of the world, and now engage in brutal, randomly timed kidnappings of people younger than 18, referred to as Callings. When a teen is Called to the Grey Land, they disappear into an otherworld from which they might return broken, mutated, or simply dead, which is why all Irish children are trained in the art of surviving the experience. That includes Vanessa, whose disability as a result of being a polio survivor might put her at a disadvantage, but whose tenacity and determination will not let her go down without a fight.