7 Top short stories books like Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück

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Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. …

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1. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • contemporary

2. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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3. Pretending is Lying

By: Dominique Goblet , Sophie Yanow

3.69

Format: 121 pages,

The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, Pretending is… read more

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4. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's A Shining book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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5. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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6. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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7. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literature
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8. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Exteriors book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literature
  • short stories
  • contemporary
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9. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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10. Quiet

By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Adukwei Bulley's Quiet book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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11. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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12. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

Similar categories in Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Trold

By: Rasmus Daugbjerg

3.20

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

En trold bor i skoven. Hendes skæbne er bundet til jorden, og når menneskene fra byen gør naturen f… read more

Similar categories in Rasmus Daugbjerg's Trold book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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16. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Wrong Norma book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
  • short stories
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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17. My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

By: Carl Phillips

4.45

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperat… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literature
  • poetry
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18. The Book (Wave Books, 110)

By: Mary Ruefle

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ruefle's The Book (Wave Books, 110) book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
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19. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Concerning the Future of Souls book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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21. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Louise Glück's Marigold and Rose

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

12 must-read fiction books like Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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The Details

Ia Genberg

3.90

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So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

Claire Keegan

3.99

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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