Orange World and Other Stories
By: Karen Russell
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl…
Want to Read $ 10.99"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
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1. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- magical realism
- short story collection
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2. A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Bre… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
3. Willful Creatures
By: Aimee Bender
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that … read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
4. Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
By: Harryette Mullen
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry … read more
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5. As She Climbed Across the Table
By: Jonathan Lethem
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper.… read more
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6. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
7. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- magical realism
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
8. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
9. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
10. Florida
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."-Lauren Groff, Florida
11. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
12. Orange World and Other Stories
By: Karen Russell
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
13. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- magical realism
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
14. Oceanic
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more
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- adult
15. 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
- speculative fiction
- adult
- short stories
16. Gentrifier: A Memoir
By: Anne Elizabeth Moore
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black cit… read more
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17. Awayland
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
18. The Clarion
By: Nina Dunic
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
20. The West Passage
By: Jared Pechaček
3.96
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to s… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Soot: A Novel
By: Dan Vyleta
3.26
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that En… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
