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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIn Sunlight or In Shadow
Stephen King, Justin Scott, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Gail Levin, Kris Nelscott, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Warren Moore · 278 pages
"A newly commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper"--Dust jacket.
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri · 208 pages
Title: Interpreter of Maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the lives of Indian and Indian-American characters who are grappling with issues of identity, displacement, and the complexities of human relationships. Here’s a brief summary of each story in the collection: "A Temporary Matter": A couple,
The Best American Short Stories 2007
Stephen King · 448 pages
Pa's darling / Louis Auchincloss Toga party / John Barth Solid wood / Ann Beattie Balto / T.C. Boyle Riding the doghouse / Randy DeVita My brother Eli / Joseph Epstein Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay Eleanor's music / Mary Gordon L. DeBard and Aliette, a love story / Lauren Groff Wake / Beverly Jensen Wait / Roy Kesey Findings & impressions
The Best American Short Stories 2008
Salman Rushdie · 358 pages
The Collected Stories
William Trevor · 1,261 pages
William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorou
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
Lex Williford, Michael Martone · 672 pages
An updated edition of top-selected short fictional works features a spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse U.S. and Canadian authors.
The Best American Short Stories 2012
Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, Julie Otsuka, Edith Pearlman, Angela Pneuman, Eric Puchner, George Saunders, Taiye Selasi, Sharon Solwitz, Kate Walbert, Carol Anshaw, Jess Walter, Adam Wilson, Taylor Antrim, Nathan Englander, Roxane Gay, Mary Gaitskill, Jennifer Haigh, Mike Meginnis, Steven Millhause · 384 pages
The Best American Short Stories 2013
Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor · 308 pages
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Stories: All-New Tales
Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio · 428 pages
"The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ."The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.S
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Tobias Wolff · 558 pages
The thirty-three stories in this generous and discerning volume prove that American short fiction may be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States, one that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches to the use of language. - Back cover.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
Dave Eggers · 353 pages
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
James Thomas · 263 pages
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Richard Bausch · 1,734 pages
Telling Tales
Nadine Gordimer · 303 pages
"Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures." "The twenty-one stories are written in different voices - individual styles - exploring the possibilities of th
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Theodore W. Goossen · 496 pages
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 288 pages
Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man who aches
The Best American Short Stories 2015
T.C. Boyle · 346 pages
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Jeffrey Eugenides · 587 pages
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace, Ethan Canin, Andrea Lee, Raymond Carver, Paul Theroux, Claire Keegan, Lewis Robinson, Lynda Sexson, Daniel Lyons, William Trevor, Denis Johnson, Russell Banks · 182 pages
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Katrina Kenison · 775 pages
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Walter Mosley · 384 pages
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1
Robert Silverberg · 558 pages
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · 247 pages
Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virgi