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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami · 362 pages
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami's mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated cr
A Winter Book
Tove Jansson · 208 pages
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 265 pages
Goodnight, Beautiful Women
Anna Noyes · 224 pages
This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book. Charles Baxter Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight, Beaut
Island: Collected Stories
Alistair MacLeod · 434 pages
Sixteen stories set against the backdrop of Cape Breton Island explore family relationships, the importance of tradition, legend, the significance and beauty of the surrounding landscape, superstition, and memory.
In the Penny Arcade
Steven Millhauser · 164 pages
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from "August Eschenburg," the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to "Cathay," a king
Once the Shore
Paul Yoon · 270 pages
So persuasive are Yoon's powers of invention that readers go searching for his Solla Island somewhere off the mainland of South Korea--not realizing that it exists only in this breathtaking collection of eight interlinked stories ... Yoon's writing results in a fully formed, deftly executed debut. The lost lives, while heartbreaking, prove illuminating in Yoon's made-up world, so convincing and re
The Shell Collector
Anthony Doerr · 224 pages
“The Shell Collector” (2002), a short story by American author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of a blind shell expert living in exile with his dog in Kenya who becomes something of a celebrity after he uses deadly cone venom to cure a local eight-year-old girl of Malaria.
Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan · 168 pages
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulner
Pig Earth
John Berger · 213 pages
Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood · 288 pages
A collection of short stories which covers a wide range of human emotions.
Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages
The Complete Stories
Truman Capote · 328 pages
"Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, Random House presents
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Joseph Conrad · 261 pages
Diving Belles
Lucy Wood · 223 pages
Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Hous
Moonlight and Vines
Charles de Lint · 384 pages
In the Forest of Forgetting
Theodora Goss · 284 pages
Collected Stories
Gabriel García Márquez · 311 pages
The Red Garden
Alice Hoffman · 287 pages
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such characters as a wounded Civil War solider who is saved by a passionate neighbor and a woman who meets a fiercely human historical figure.
The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories
Michel Faber · 199 pages
Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White is one of the best-loved novels of recent years, capturing hearts and leaving many readers resperate for more. Now Faber returns to Silver Street, conjuring tantalising glimpses of Sugar, Clara, Mr Bodley et al, their lives before we first encountered them and their intriguing futures. For those who have already met them, The Apple is a chance to reco