Zero-Sum: Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acc…
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1. Onlookers: Stories
By: Ann Beattie
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant collection of linked stories … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
2. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
3. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
4. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
5. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
6. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
8. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
9. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
10. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
11. Blue Skies
By: T.C. Boyle
3.81
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary A… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
13. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
14. Night Side of the River
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
15. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
16. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
17. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Be Mine
By: Richard Ford
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Zero-Sum: Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acc… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- classics
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- dark
- horror
20. Disruptions
By: Steven Millhauser
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- contemporary
21. The Coiled Serpent
By: Camilla Grudova
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more
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- gothic
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
