Skip the Pub Crawl and Read One of These Books on St. Patrick's Day

This debut novel won the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction thanks to Eimear McBride's scathing and tortured writing. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing depicts a young girl coming to grips with her brother's brain tumor as well as her own sexuality. The gripping stream-of-conscious style prose will keep its hold on your memory for years to come.