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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorErections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski · 478 pages
Bad Behavior: Stories
Mary Gaitskill · 203 pages
Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)
The Outlaw Album: Stories
Daniel Woodrell · 176 pages
Twelve short stories depict people on the fringes of society, including an injured rapist who is cared for by a young girl and a husband who cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet.
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto · 216 pages
Homesick for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh · 304 pages
Features stories, in which the flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful, but beauty comes from strange sources. In this book, the author shows us uncomfortable things, and makes us look at them forensically - until we find, suddenly, that we are really looking at ourselves.
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.
The Pugilist at Rest
Thom Jones · 240 pages
14 stories grouped into four parts: the horrors of Vietnam; men at war with women; the difficulties of divorce, mental defects, and the ravages of cancer; and battling epilepsy and alcoholism.
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake · 192 pages
Black Tickets: Stories
Jayne Anne Phillips · 265 pages
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature · 176 pages
Bed
Tao Lin · 278 pages
Contains nine short stories by American author Tao Lin, which feature characters who struggle with laziness, boredom, exhaustion, and other emotions and situations.
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.
Great Dream of Heaven
Sam Shepard · 186 pages
"In these eighteen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellsprings that have made him one of our most acclaimed - and distinctly American - playwrights: sex and regret, the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence, the comic gulf of misapprehension between men and women, and the even deeper gulf that separates men from their true selves.". "A fascinated boy watches the gri
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver · 159 pages
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis · 225 pages
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total ab
Close Range
Annie Proulx · 287 pages
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fierc