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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote · 45 pages
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one ol
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry · 37 pages
Wonderful Christmas story, you laugh and cry at the same time, tender, inspiring, and the best of it is, you know it's all a storm in a teacup. What they have is priceless.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 352 pages
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many
The Spa Decameron
Fay Weldon · 336 pages
Ein paar Powerfrauen verbringen Weihnachten in einem eleganten Wellnessbad. Bei Kaviar und Champagner erzählen sie einander im Whirlpool ihre Lebensgeschichten: Eine Verschwörungstheoretikerin, eine transsexuelle Richterin, eine Expfarrersfrau, die von einem Poltergeist verfolgt wird, eine Psychoanalytikerin, die ihren Ehemann vergiftet hat, eine Manikürespezialistin, die von einem Scheich entführ
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank · 274 pages
After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris · 144 pages
A collection of Christmas stories. The story Dinah, the Christmas Whore, describes the reaction of a family when a daughter brings home a prostitute, while SantaLand Diaries is on a department store elf.
The Great Gatsby and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 319 pages
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 63 pages
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat · 244 pages
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann · 264 pages
The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue
Will Eisner · 498 pages
This book joins three works by Will Eisner, all set around Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx (New York). (1) Contract with God (1978), comprising four independent brief stories. (2) A Life Force (1988), which follows events in Dropsie Avenue during the Great Depression years, and (3) Dropsie Avenue (1995), where the story follows the neighborhood from the 1800s (farming community) to high-end suburb,
This Year It Will Be Different
Maeve Binchy · 266 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and ins
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 480 pages
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 202 pages
Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early entries in a narrative series about the Glasses, a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York. In the first story, Franny, a young college girl, arrives in New Haven (Yale) to be with her boyfriend for a football weekend, where they go to a café. The story is essentially an account of
Girls in Trucks
Katie Crouch · 276 pages
Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of a poor young girl trying to sell matches on a bitterly cold winter night. As she lights her matches one by one for warmth, each small flame reveals comforting visions that momentarily lift her from the harshness of her world. Through these brief illuminations, the story contrasts the cruelty of her reality with the beauty of her hopes and dreams
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle · 68 pages
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat and duck turn into a first class case of felony and theft of a very precious Blue Carbuncle. A fun and well written tale. (Summary by phil chenevert )
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
The Collected Stories
Richard Yates · 496 pages