17 must-read fiction books like Paradise by Edna O'Brien

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Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at…

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1. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

2. Giacomo Joyce

By: James Joyce

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more

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3. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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4. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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5. The Inner Room

By: Robert Aickman

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more

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6. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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7. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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8. Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • drama
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9. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead

By: Milan Kundera

3.70

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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11. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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12. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Dante and the Lobster

By: Samuel Beckett

3.32

Format: None pages, None

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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14. Terrific Mother

By: Lorrie Moore

3.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Country Funeral

By: John McGahern

3.84

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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16. The Cheater's Guide to Love

By: Junot Díaz

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

By: Alan Bennett

3.96

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Victim

By: P.D. James

3.76

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. An Elegy for Easterly

By: Petina Gappah

3.51

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Cosmopolitan

By: Akhil Sharma

3.32

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Daughters of Passion

By: Julia O'Faolain

3.40

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature

10 Top contemporary books like Paradise by Edna O'Brien

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Claire Keegan

4.00

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Sally Rooney

3.78

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3.57

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Claire Keegan

3.46

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Claire Keegan

4.00

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Donal Ryan

4.09

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