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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorNothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash · 262 pages
In this collection of short stories, Rash turns to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in stories that span from the Civil War to present day.
Beginners
Raymond Carver · 173 pages
The unedited version of 'What we talk about when we talk about Love" before it would be cut by Carver's editor and mentor.
Matryona's House And Other Stories
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 205 pages
Fine Just the Way it Is
Annie Proulx · 240 pages
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy. About Author: Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping N
Blind 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
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 70 pages
Among the Missing
Dan Chaon · 273 pages
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missi
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
Last Evenings on Earth
Roberto Bolano · 224 pages
The Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 499 pages
Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
Collected Stories
Wallace Stegner · 525 pages
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Joseph Conrad · 261 pages
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood · 288 pages
A collection of short stories which covers a wide range of human emotions.
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake · 192 pages
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July · 214 pages
This collection of short stories introduces the possibility of a moment that can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman's obsession with Prince William, or an aging factory worker who has never been in love, the result is startling, sexy and tender by turns.
Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages
The Collected Stories
Richard Yates · 496 pages
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra · 142 pages
Scenes from Village Life
Amos Oz · 228 pages
In 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.