Normal People

Normal People
First edition cover
AuthorSally Rooney
Audio read byAoife McMahon
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel (Romance)
Set inDublin and Carricklea, County Sligo
PublisherFaber & Faber
Publication date
30 August 2018
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint
Pages266
Awards2019 British Book Award for Book of the Year
ISBN978-0-571-33464-3
OCLC1061023590
823/.92
LC ClassPR6118.O59 N67 2018

Normal People is a 2018 novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney. Normal People is Rooney's second novel, published after Conversations with Friends (2017). It was first published by Faber & Faber on 30 August 2018. The book became a best-seller in the US, selling almost 64,000 copies in hardcover in its first four months of release. A critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated television adaptation of the same name aired from April 2020 on BBC Three and Hulu. A number of publications ranked it one of the best books of the 2010s.