30 Best short stories books like There's a Bear in the House! by Walter Kirn

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There's a Bear in the House!

By: Walter Kirn

3.85

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Up in the Air comes a short and heartwarming true sto…

If you liked the short stories plot in There's a Bear in the House! by Walter Kirn , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

By: Charles W. Sasser , Norma Cobb

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-y… read more

Similar categories in Charles W. Sasser's Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.70

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in th… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Bloody Summer book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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3. I Choose Darkness

By: Jenny Lawson

3.97

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From cheap costumes to creepy dolls to questionable candy, number one New York Times bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Lawson's I Choose Darkness book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. The Bad Friend

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.21

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets, betrayal, and jealousy are at the heart of a friendship in an unnerving short story about … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Kepnes's The Bad Friend book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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5. Jackrabbit Skin

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.40

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and rage can get under the skin in an unsettling short story by Ivy Pochoda, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Jackrabbit Skin book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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6. Tiger Chair

By: Max Brooks

3.57

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provoc… read more

Similar categories in Max Brooks's Tiger Chair book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
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7. The Tiger Came to the Mountains

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Tiger Came to the Mountains book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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8. Wildlife

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature offers sanctuary for a woman with a violent past. But anything can happen when borderlands a… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Wildlife book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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9. The Wehrwolf

By: Alma Katsu

3.88

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Alma Katsu, the visionary author of The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, brings readers a terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's The Wehrwolf book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Besides you must admit: the wolf inside you is calling. The wolf wants to be set free."- Hans Sauer"

-Alma Katsu, The Wehrwolf

"Obviously, if the Devil could make your life easier than God could, than God just chose not to. Maybe the Devil was the good one."

-Alma Katsu, The Wehrwolf

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10. Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection)

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.61

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An enterprising woman in a man’s world. A vision that changed daytime television. A galvanizing sho… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Benjamin's Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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11. Sweet Virginia

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.02

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a woman to do when she fails to live up to feminine ideals? It depends on what she’s willing… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Kepnes's Sweet Virginia book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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12. The Scenic Route

By: Christina Baker Kline

4.02

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

Driven by desperation to hit the road, a woman sees her life come into view in a powerful short sto… read more

Similar categories in Christina Baker Kline's The Scenic Route book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Stillness can’t really exist ... because even when we’re not moving, we’re breathing, and breath is movement."

-Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route

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13. Ash Wednesday (A Point in Time, #2)

By: Paula McLain

4.03

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

In this wrenching short story based on a real-life tragedy near Cleveland, Ohio, New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Paula McLain's Ash Wednesday (A Point in Time, #2) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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14. The June Paintings (Blaze Collection)

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.71

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

On a remote island, an unfulfilled young female painter finds a singular kind of inspiration in thi… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Shipstead's The June Paintings (Blaze Collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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15. Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Kevin Allison

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Coming out can be awkward enough—let alone coming out in the 1970s, in Ohio, as a Catholic schoolbo… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Allison's Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. There's a Bear in the House!

By: Walter Kirn

3.85

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Up in the Air comes a short and heartwarming true sto… read more

Similar categories in Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House! book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • 21st century
  • audiobook
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17. Model Home

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.19

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Not happy? No problem. Fake it. From New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan comes a… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's Model Home book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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18. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Backbone of the World book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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19. Mother Swamp (A Point in Time, #7)

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.78

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

A fever dream of the past that ripples outward to the modern world, this powerful short story by tw… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Mother Swamp (A Point in Time, #7) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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20. Landing (A Point in Time, #3)

By: Olivia Hawker

3.65

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

Doubt plagues a new marriage when a young NASA engineer focuses more on the Apollo 11 moon landing … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Hawker's Landing (A Point in Time, #3) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"But sometimes the ones who make the sacrifices move the whole world forward out of darkness, into light."

-Olivia Hawker, Landing (A Point in Time, #3)

"That was love, surely - that sense of being marked by another. Maybe it was. He thought he wanted it to be love, probably, most likely."

-Olivia Hawker, Landing (A Point in Time, #3)

"It wasn’t going to be okay. It had once been Alan’s job to imagine all the ways a thing might break, but he’d never thought of this: a quiet, painful fracture, so deep you only realized it was there …"

-Olivia Hawker, Landing (A Point in Time, #3)

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21. A Righteous Man

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.29

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more

Similar categories in Tochi Onyebuchi's A Righteous Man book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Fires to Come (Blaze Collection) by Asha Lemmie

22. Fires to Come (Blaze Collection)

By: Asha Lemmie

3.81

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

In early twentieth-century New York City, a young woman torn between two cultures must choose where… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's Fires to Come (Blaze Collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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23. Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection)

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.19

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive woman defies expectations to become the mother of forensic science in this absorbing… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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24. The Woman in the Strongbox

By: Maureen O'Hagan

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

In this tantalizing true mystery of a stolen life, an acclaimed reporter and an identity theft inve… read more

Similar categories in Maureen O'Hagan's The Woman in the Strongbox book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Before Her (The One #1)

By: Jacqueline Woodson

3.60

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In this transportive memoir, the National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming traces t… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Before Her (The One #1) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. Stag

By: Karen Russell

3.32

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more

Similar categories in Karen Russell's Stag book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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27. Alison's Conviction (A Point in Time, #6)

By: Thomas Keneally

3.48

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A young autistic woman finds her voice and a path toward justice in this uplifting short story abou… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Keneally's Alison's Conviction (A Point in Time, #6) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • family
  • audiobook
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28. A Scandal in Brooklyn

By: Lauren Wilkinson

3.11

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic Holmesian detective untangles a locked-room mystery with a very modern twist in this veno… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Wilkinson's A Scandal in Brooklyn book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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29. We Are Bone and Earth (A Point in Time, #4)

By: Esi Edugyan

3.46

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In this moving short tale of one girl’s search for her lost brother, award-winning author Esi Edugy… read more

Similar categories in Esi Edugyan's We Are Bone and Earth (A Point in Time, #4) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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30. This Van Could Be Your Life

By: Mishka Shubaly

3.57

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Long Run comes an emotional and adventurously funny true story o… read more

Similar categories in Mishka Shubaly's This Van Could Be Your Life book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Neighbors (The Real Thing collection)

By: Elizabeth LaBan

3.91

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

From next-door neighbors to BFFs, Pretty Little World coauthors Elizabeth LaBan and Melissa DePino … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth LaBan's Neighbors (The Real Thing collection) book and Walter Kirn's There's a Bear in the House!

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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