12 must-read short stories books like It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) by Ramona Reeves

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It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)

By: Ramona Reeves

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters Happiness a…

If you liked the short stories plot in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) by Ramona Reeves , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Transit of Venus

By: Shirley Hazzard

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England t… read more

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2. Provinces of Night

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more

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3. Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories… read more

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4. Dare Me

By: Megan Abbott

3.24

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"Tense, dark, and beautifully written" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from … read more

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"If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful."

-Megan Abbott, Dare Me

"Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?"

-Megan Abbott, Dare Me

"This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly."

-Megan Abbott, Dare Me

"When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. (~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)"

-Megan Abbott, Dare Me

5. Thunderstruck & Other Stories

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more

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6. 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

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7. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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8. In the Time of Our History

By: Susanne Pari

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, the acclaimed author weaves a beautifully crafted st… read more

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9. Games and Rituals

By: Katherine Heiny

3.82

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more

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  • short stories
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"

-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals

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10. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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11. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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12. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

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13. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

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14. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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15. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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16. 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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"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

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17. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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18. 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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"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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19. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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20. My Monticello

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a w… read more

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"To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth."

-Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

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21. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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22. Hot Springs Drive

By: Lindsay Hunter

3.52

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more

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23. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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24. The Eden Test

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Edgar Award-finalist Adam Sternbergh, an electrifying domestic suspense novel for fans of The … read more

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25. It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)

By: Ramona Reeves

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters Happiness a… read more

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26. Small in Real Life (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)

By: Kelly Sather

4.11

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize  Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy… read more

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27. The Disappeared: Stories

By: Andrew Porter

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our liv… read more

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28. The Low Desert

By: Tod Goldberg

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Tod Goldberg is a terrific writer, and The Low Desert is a smart, surprising page turner." —Don Wi… read more

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29. A New Race of Men from Heaven

By: Chaitali Sen

4.26

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are never … read more

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30. Hollow Out the Dark

By: James Wade

4.47

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author James Wade blends atmospheric prose with soul-stirring themes in Hollow Out th… read more

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31. The Codger and the Sparrow

By: Scott Semegran

4.69

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Hank O'Sullivan, a sixty-five-year-old widower, lives a routine life, nursing his loneliness with c… read more

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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