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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBullfighting: Stories
Roddy Doyle · 219 pages
A collection of stories set in modern Ireland explores a theme of loss, from a man who remembers his early family life while taking daily prescribed walks to a father who considers the impact of his children's pets.
The News from Dublin: Stories
Colm Tóibín · 304 pages
Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Colum McCann · 196 pages
Araby
James Joyce
A young boy in love with his friend’s sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar and by the time he arrives, most of the stalls are closed and only late night activities are taking place between young women and men.
Yesterday's Weather
Anne Enright · 314 pages
The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Ireland.
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov
The steppe -- Panpipes -- The kiss -- Verochka -- The name-day party -- A dreary story -- Gusev -- The duel.
The Collected Stories
Lorrie Moore · 704 pages
"The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore's short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff"-- This career-spanning collection of Moore's work showcases her talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. The stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls grappling with pain or disappointment. -- adapted from jacket
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
Elizabeth McCracken · 240 pages
A collection of stories navigates the fragile space between love and loneliness, including the title story in which a family finds their lives irrevocably changed by their teenage daughter's risky behavior.
The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story
Joan Wickersham · 208 pages
"The author of the acclaimed memoir 'The Suicide Index' returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what's in someone else's heart -- or in our
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 240 pages
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Her award-winning Ha
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin · 247 pages
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakis
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 255 pages
Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was not
Summerhouse, Later: Stories
Judith Hermann · 224 pages
You Are Not a Stranger Here
Adam Haslett · 240 pages
A collection of short stories features characters confronting the concerns of both classic literature and contemporary life, from an aging inventor who visits his gay son to an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.
Flights of Love: Stories
Bernhard Schlink · 320 pages
From the internationally bestselling author of "The Reader" comes a collection of stories that weave around the idea of love in all its many forms.
Between Friends
Amos Oz · 195 pages
'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are.' Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart, played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement, intense dissatisfaction and lifetimes of words left unspoken. Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husba
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy · 219 pages
Award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade.Eleven unforgettable new stories
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
Runaway
Alice Munro · 335 pages
In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel disco
How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers · 224 pages
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