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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorUnaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri · 352 pages
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers,
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
The Collected Stories
Richard Yates · 496 pages
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski · 478 pages
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.
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 288 pages
Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man who aches
The Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 499 pages
Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
Ablutions
Patrick deWitt · 164 pages
Working at a decaying Hollywood bar while making notes for the novel he hopes to write, a bartender is drawn into the alcoholic oblivion that affects his customers, losing his wife, his goals, and himself in the process.
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Edith Wharton · 256 pages
Contains: [Ethan Frome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98501W/Ethan_Frome) The touchstone ; The last asset ; Xingu ; The other two.
Minimum of Two
Tim Winton · 153 pages
How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers · 224 pages
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.
In the Beginning Was the Sea
Tomas Gonzalez · 163 pages
The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote tropical coast. Among mango trees, hot sands and everlasting sunshine, they plan to live the Good Life, self-sufficient and close to nature.
The Collected Stories
Lydia Davis · 733 pages
A single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes "Break it Down" and "Varieties of Disturbance."
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Pedro Juan Gutierrez · 400 pages
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin · 34 pages
Summerhouse, Later: Stories
Judith Hermann · 224 pages
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Kazuo Ishiguro · 221 pages
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling sing
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake · 192 pages
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.
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