A Temporary Matter
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.18
Format: 15 pages, ebook
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characte…
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1. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
By: Karen Russell
3.79
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magic… read more
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"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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"i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
2. The Hermit's Story
By: Rick Bass
4.10
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Hermit’s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a… read more
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"You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard w…"-Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story
3. Fiesta, 1980
By: Junot Díaz
3.46
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, cons… read more
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4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
6. The Lesson
By: Toni Cade Bambara
3.94
Format: None pages,
...teacher takes her inner city students to FAO Swhwart read more
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7. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
By: Stephen Crane
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streetsat his own expense. Consider… read more
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8. Taking Care
By: Joy Williams
4.12
Format: None pages,
Stories deal with a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, childhood f… read more
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9. A Clean Well Lighted Place
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more
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10. Roman Fever
By: Edith Wharton
3.33
Format: 170 pages,
While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic riva… read more
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12. Harrison Bergeron
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more
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13. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
By: Mark Twain , Bernard DeVoto , Henry Nash Smith
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
"I have told you nothing about man that is not true." You must pardon me if I repeat that remark no… read more
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14. Emergency
By: Denis Johnson
4.38
Format: None pages, Podcast
I'd like to strongly recommend that you listen to this month's fiction podcast, in which Tobias Wol… read more
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15. A Perfect Day for Bananafish
By: J.D. Salinger
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the Janu… read more
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16. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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17. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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18. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
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19. Two Kinds
By: Amy Tan
3.20
Format: None pages,
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20. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
By: Louise Erdrich
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
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21. The Great Silence
By: Karen Joy Fowler , Ted Chiang
3.68
Format: 113 pages,
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23. The Way We Live Now
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3.96
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
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By: Lee Winter
4.37
Format: 339 pages, ebook
Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly draw… read more
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26. A Temporary Matter
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.18
Format: 15 pages, ebook
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characte… read more
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27. The Paper Menagerie
By: Ken Liu
4.58
Format: 32 pages, ebook
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"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie
28. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
By: John Freeman
4.00
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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29. No Name Woman
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
4.10
Format: 16 pages, ebook
Maxine Hong Kingston begins her search for a personal identity with the story of an aunt, to whom t… read more
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30. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
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