8 Top short stories books like Company by Shannon Sanders

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Company

By: Shannon Sanders

3.92

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family …

If you liked the short stories plot in Company by Shannon Sanders , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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2. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Hive and the Honey: Stories

By: Paul Yoon

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"

-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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6. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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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8. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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9. 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
  • race
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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10. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

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14. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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15. Company

By: Shannon Sanders

3.92

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Sanders's Company book and Shannon Sanders's Company

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both book and Shannon Sanders's Company

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

17. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

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  • audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

18. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro  Varela

19. The People Who Report More Stress

By: Alejandro Varela

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

20. A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"

-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends

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21. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

17 must-read fiction books like Company by Shannon Sanders

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Andrew McMillan

3.71

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Welcome Home, Stranger

Kate Christensen

3.44

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16 Top fiction books like The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela

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Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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The Consequences: Stories

Manuel Muñoz

4.12

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Brandon Taylor

3.38

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