And of Clay Are We Created
By: Isabel Allende
4.15
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
This selection is fictional, but it is based on a real event. In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombi…
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1. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
By: John Chu
3.81
Format: 22 pages, ebook
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential fl… read more
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2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
4. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
5. The City Born Great
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more
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- adult
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6. The Embassy of Cambodia
By: Zadie Smith
4.38
Format: None pages,
'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as … read more
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- school
7. The Garden of Forking Paths
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges
3.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more
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8. Premium Harmony
By: Stephen King , Steve Powers
4.06
Format: 205 pages, ebook
They've been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.--swell--but now... http:… read more
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9. Boys And Girls
By: Alice Munro
3.87
Format: 291 pages, ebook
Short story by Alice Munro. My father was a fox farmer. That is, he raised silver foxes, in pens; a… read more
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10. Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Carme Solé Vendrell
3.54
Format: None pages,
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that begins with a couple, Pelayo and Elisend… read more
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11. Barn Burning
By: William Faulkner
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Har… read more
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12. Sweetness
By: Toni Morrison
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
It's not my fault. So you can't blame me. I didn't do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn'… read more
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13. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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14. There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more
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15. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
16. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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Similar categories in Tobias Wolff's Bullet in the Brain book and Isabel Allende's And of Clay Are We Created
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"Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that..."-Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
18. And of Clay Are We Created
By: Isabel Allende
4.15
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
This selection is fictional, but it is based on a real event. In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombi… read more
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- adult
19. Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th… read more
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20. The Hunter's Wife
By: Anthony Doerr
3.70
Format: 2 pages, Unknown Binding
Short story, published in The Atlantic read more
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"Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, someth…"-Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife
21. Broads
By: Roxane Gay
2.45
Format: None pages, None
Jimmy Nolan has a thing for broads—loud, brassy women who sit with their legs open and drink beer s… read more
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