10 must-read short stories books like Disruptions by Steven Millhauser

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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…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Clowes's Monica book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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5. 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

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • adult
  • short stories
"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

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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

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Leichter's Terrace Story book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."

-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story

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9. Brooklyn Crime Novel

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
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10. 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

Similar categories in Min Jin Lee's The Best American Short Stories 2023 book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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11. Dead in Long Beach, California

By: Venita Blackburn

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's Dead in Long Beach, California book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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

Similar categories in Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • adult 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

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14. Dayswork

By: Chris Bachelder

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bachelder's Dayswork book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

Similar categories in Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • speculative fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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16. The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

By: Lauren Groff

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ry… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
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17. 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

Similar categories in Jamel Brinkley's Witness: Stories book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • 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

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18. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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19. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more

Similar categories in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

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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

Similar categories in Steven Millhauser's Disruptions book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • speculative fiction
Cover of The Last Catastrophe: Stories by Allegra Hyde

21. The Last Catastrophe: Stories

By: Allegra Hyde

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by… read more

Similar categories in Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories book and Steven Millhauser's Disruptions

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • adult
  • short stories

20 Best fiction books like Disruptions by Steven Millhauser

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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3.95

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Beautyland

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4.15

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3.31

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Vincent Bevins

4.28

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

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4.13

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