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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBurning Bright
Ron Rash · 205 pages
Jacob and Edna have fallen on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. When one of their hens stops laying eggs, it seems like the final straw. Jacob is determined to solve the mystery. What he discovers is as heartbreaking as it is revelatory.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
Kevin Wilson · 208 pages
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider -- a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabbl
Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
A.M. Homes · 224 pages
In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
Night at the Fiestas
Kirstin Valdez Quade · 304 pages
A collection of ten stories that "plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths. The deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the role of Jesus in a bloody penitential Passion. A young man discovers that his estranged father and a boa constrictor have been squatting in his grandmoth
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry
Elizabeth McCracken · 216 pages
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
Jon McGregor · 272 pages
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore · 322 pages
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Penelope Lively · 208 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
Lost In The City
Edward P. Jones · 250 pages
The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li · 212 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.
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Elissa Schappell · 304 pages
"From the acclaimed author of Use Me, eight provocative and darkly funny linked stories that explore the commonly shared, but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers, mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day"--
Bliss and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 279 pages
A collection of fourteen short anecdotes, Bliss & Other Stories captures the human spirit in a way few writers have ever dreamed of doing. Mansfield’s ability to string together words approaches poetry. Her stories are free from the over-dramatic writing style that many women writers have been criticized for using, and instead candidly touch on the human experience. Whether writing about the awake
The Theory of Light and Matter
Andrew Porter · 178 pages