10 must-read short stories books like McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle

Cover of McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle

McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: Claire Boyle

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings your our 72nd issue, a susp…

If you liked the short stories plot in McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

1. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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Cover of Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme

2. Forty Stories

By: Donald Barthelme

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's e… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories by William H. Gass

3. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

By: William H. Gass

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

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  • short stories

4. Both Flesh and Not: Essays

By: David Foster Wallace

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring an… read more

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5. The Singer's Gun

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career… read more

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6. The Colossus of New York

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more

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Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

7. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

8. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • short stories
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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9. 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

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  • short stories
Cover of Open Throat by Henry Hoke

10. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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Cover of Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Chris Ware

11. Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library)

By: Chris Ware

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in the making: the new epic masterwork from the bril… read more

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"[P]eople, who seek the companionship of like minds and bodies, cannot simply be thrown together and expect to thrive."

-Chris Ware, Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Cover of The Keeper of the Ornaments by Dave Eggers

12. The Keeper of the Ornaments

By: Dave Eggers

4.30

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible by Brian Evenson

13. McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible

By: Brian Evenson

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some tim… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Honor of Your Presence by Dave Eggers

14. The Honor of Your Presence

By: Dave Eggers

3.48

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Pe… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers

15. The Museum of Rain

By: Dave Eggers

4.22

Format: None pages, None

In this elegiac story about age, family, memory, and the origins of ideas, Dave Eggers, the bestsel… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle

16. McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: Claire Boyle

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings your our 72nd issue, a susp… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of McSweeney's Issue 68 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Daniel Gumbiner

17. McSweeney's Issue 68 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: Daniel Gumbiner

3.91

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Coming this October, the 68th issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly fe… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

18. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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Cover of McSweeney's Issue 74 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): 25th Anniversary Issue by James Yeh

19. McSweeney's Issue 74 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): 25th Anniversary Issue

By: James Yeh

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback in lunchbox

None read more

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Cover of McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos by Dave Eggers

20. McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos

By: Dave Eggers

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 74th issue, a per… read more

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Cover of The Comebacker by Dave Eggers

21. The Comebacker

By: Dave Eggers

4.59

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Lionel Gregorian is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants—an enviable job if not for th… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Transform Your Habits

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Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

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