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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAll Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
Edward P. Jones · 403 pages
A collection of fourteen short stories is set in Washington, D.C., and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life
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
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz · 240 pages
This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
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.
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley · 208 pages
Socrates Fortlow is Walter Mosley's most compelling character since Easy Rawlins, a tough, brooding ex-convict and is set to be a bold and original new hero.
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf · 112 pages
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
Yukio Mishima · 205 pages
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig · 133 pages
Cities I've Never Lived In: Stories
Sara Majka · 160 pages
"Linked stories ... of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself"--Page 4
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · 198 pages
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann · 264 pages
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore · 322 pages
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez · 146 pages
Summerhouse, Later: Stories
Judith Hermann · 224 pages
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
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
A Model World and Other Stories
Michael Chabon · 207 pages
A collection of short stories includes "A Model World", "Millionaires", and a series of tales about a young boy experiencing the pain of his parents' imminent divorce.
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind
David Guterson · 164 pages
Publisher's description: Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of power.
You Have a Friend In 10A
Maggie Shipstead · 272 pages
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 323 pages
A nasty anecdote -- The eternal husband -- Bobok -- The meek one -- The dream of a ridiculous man.
All Fires the Fire
Julio Cortazar · 157 pages