Reading Guide: Reading Matters

Published in September 2023, Reading Matters sees the return of the 'best of the year' format to our annual reading guide. This guide contains 286 books for young readers aged 0–18, spanning fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels and more. Reviews are in English and Irish, with Irish authors, illustrators or publishers marked with a shamrock symbol throughout. Every book here has been selected based on our belief that a young reader somewhere will love it. We hope that these books will entertain and enrich, that they might be part of some children’s best childhood memories or that, at the very least, they make some young reader happy for a few hours. Cover illustration by Róisín Hahessy