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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Collected Stories
Richard Yates · 496 pages
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Tobias Wolff · 175 pages
Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the off
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
Last Night: Stories
James Salter · 132 pages
A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author's signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments.
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus · 213 pages
After Rain
William Trevor · 212 pages
Chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eight best books of 1996, and by the Boston Globe as one of the six best books of fiction of 1996 -- Appeared on several bestseller lists, including The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Village Voice Literary Supplement -- William Trevor was the recipient of a 1996 Lannan Litera
Dusk and Other Stories
James Salter, Philip Gourevitch · 157 pages
Last Evenings on Earth
Roberto Bolano · 224 pages
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
Half in Love: Stories
Maile Meloy · 176 pages
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Anna Gavalda · 352 pages
"With arresting naturalism and a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda, "a gifted literary stylist" (Vogue), has a knack for capturing our inner as well as our outer dialogues with perfect pitch, evoking reflection, pain, and laughter in equal measure. The stories in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere are as wicked as they are i
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.
Karate Chop: Stories
Dorthe Nors · 89 pages
A collection of stories explores the mundane and the dangerous in daily life, including tales of a husband obsessed with female serial killers and a bureaucrat who converts to Buddhism to gain power.
How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers · 224 pages
Stories
Anton Chekhov · 348 pages
Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
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 Complete Stories
Bernard Malamud · 528 pages
Brodie's Report
Jorge Luis Borges · 137 pages
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel," are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with su
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · 198 pages
Summerhouse, Later: Stories
Judith Hermann · 224 pages
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan · 250 pages
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human exper