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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHow We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers · 224 pages
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans · 240 pages
Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Amy Bloom · 181 pages
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."--The New YorkerA great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. R
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver · 159 pages
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 273 pages
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
We Live in Water
Jess Walter · 177 pages
"We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kid
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg: Stories
Deborah Eisenberg · 986 pages
Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.
Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout · 272 pages
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has c
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks · 416 pages
A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combinat
Half in Love: Stories
Maile Meloy · 176 pages
The Beggar's Garden
Michael Christie · 261 pages
"This ... collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters - from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief - as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside"--Publisher.
Minimum of Two
Tim Winton · 153 pages
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan · 250 pages
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human exper
The Book of Other People
Zadie Smith · 304 pages
The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at 4:30a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to swee
You Have a Friend In 10A
Maggie Shipstead · 272 pages
A Permanent Member of the Family
Russell Banks
Hellgoing
Lynn Coady · 223 pages
"With astonishing range and depth, Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories. A young nun charged with taking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blashphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can'
Honeydew
Edith Pearlman · 278 pages
Presents a collection of short stories full of teenage drug use, anorexia, cruise-ship stowaways, and a widowed nail tech who finds herself falling for a client.
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 pages
Werewolves In Their Youth
Michael Chabon · 212 pages
Le divorce, l'abandon et la nostalgie sont au coeur des neufs nouvelles qui composent ce recueil, excepté la dernière qui fait un clin d'oeil à la "pulp fiction". L'auteur choisit le ton de la comédie et de l'ironie mordante pour ces récits.
When it Happens to You
Molly Ringwald · 272 pages
A collection of interlinked stories that explores the numerous betrayals, big and small, that one grapples with across a lifetime.
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Anna Gavalda · 352 pages
"With arresting naturalism and a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda, "a gifted literary stylist" (Vogue), has a knack for capturing our inner as well as our outer dialogues with perfect pitch, evoking reflection, pain, and laughter in equal measure. The stories in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere are as wicked as they are i
Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
Virginia Woolf · 70 pages