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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorVampires in the Lemon Grove
Karen Russell · 256 pages
Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino · 432 pages
When the moon was closer to the earth, he would once a month, when its orbit made it possible climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great confusion and destroying his grandmother's pillow. As a child, he used the curve of space to play marbles with brand-new atoms. With the rest of his family, he evolved to walk on land only
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Aimee Bender · 188 pages
A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the hear
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
Kevin Wilson · 208 pages
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider -- a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabbl
Daydreams of Angels
Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill's distinctive style and voice fill these charming, sometimes dark, always beguiling stories. From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he was nine and visited the pearly gates, to "The Little Wolf-Boy of Northern Quebec," in which untamed children run
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
Manuel Gonzales · 304 pages
A collection of short works set in a range of fantastical settings explores such themes as disproportional guilt, the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges to defend and provide for loved ones.
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
Etgar Keret · 200 pages
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature · 176 pages
The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · 256 pages
Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an absentminded p
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link · 352 pages
**SHE HAS BEEN HAILED BY MICHAEL CHABON** as "the most darkly playful voice in American fiction" and by Neil Gaiman as "a national treasure." Now Kelly Link's eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have. Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to
Not the End of the World
Kate Atkinson · 278 pages
Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Missy introduces him to a world he never knew existed.
Voodoo Heart
Scott Snyder · 288 pages
Scott Snyder's protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder's wondrous imagination there's a thin membrane betwee
The Man Who Walked Through Walls
Marcel Ayme · 228 pages
Marcel Aym's most celebrated tale provides the title of this collection of ten short stories. The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul is able to penetrate walls, but never exploits his gift until his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate measures. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime?
Flying Leap
Judy Budnitz · 256 pages
In her tales of people with ordinary hopes and fears who are forced to confront situations that are skewed, surreal, even fantastic, Judy Budnitz plays with the boundaries of time and reality. But each story is grounded in the possible, and each is enriched and empowered by a sense of humanity and hope rare in any writer, of any age.
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges · 167 pages
All Fires the Fire
Julio Cortazar · 157 pages
Dangerous Laughter
Steven Millhauser · 250 pages
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Melancholy of Anatomy
Shelley Jackson · 179 pages
The Iraqi Christ
Hassan Blasim · 140 pages
This collection of stories explores the chaos of post-invasion Baghdad. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by a suicide bomber into swapping places. A composer of crossword puzzles survives a car-bomb, only to find himself haunted by the spirit of one of its victims. A victim of looting flees armed robbers but falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which s
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka · 271 pages
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes 'Metamorphosis', his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; 'Meditation', a collection of his earlier studies; 'The Judgement', written in a single night of frenzied creativity; 'The Stoker', the first chapter of a novel s
Demons in the Spring
Joe Meno · 272 pages
Features a collection of short stories about the surreal yet dark lives of individuals considered outcasts, misfits, or peculiar to loved ones or the outside world.