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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra · 142 pages
The Pastures of Heaven
John Steinbeck · 241 pages
A series of short stories connected by a moral, hardworking, compassionate family that moves into a rural California valley and, while meaning well, pretty much destroys the lives of the characters in each story. Fascinating read that pits eccentric, creative diversity against the American ”moral" ideal.
The Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 499 pages
Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
Thirteen Stories
Eudora Welty · 243 pages
Here is a baker’s dozen of Welty’s very best, including: “The Wide Net,” in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; “Petrified Man,” revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; “Powerhouse,” Welty’s prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and “Why I Live at
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus · 213 pages
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin · 235 pages
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 693 pages
A Game of Chess and Other Stories
Stefan Zweig · 320 pages
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
The Complete Stories
Bernard Malamud · 528 pages
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul · 246 pages
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 this book comprises three novellas, set in three very different countries. The stories are about people surviving as best they can in states with varying levels of political, social and economic freedom.
Collected Stories
Tennessee Williams · 574 pages
Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
Virginia Woolf · 70 pages
Selected Stories
Robert Walser · 208 pages
Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 239 pages
Collected Stories: Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake · 192 pages
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
Juan Rulfo · 175 pages
A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentra
About Love and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov · 211 pages
Bliss and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 279 pages
A collection of fourteen short anecdotes, Bliss & Other Stories captures the human spirit in a way few writers have ever dreamed of doing. Mansfield’s ability to string together words approaches poetry. Her stories are free from the over-dramatic writing style that many women writers have been criticized for using, and instead candidly touch on the human experience. Whether writing about the awake