If you liked the short stories plot in Brownies by Z.Z. Packer , here is a list of 20 books like this:
1. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
2. Flight
By: Sherman Alexie
3.89
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of hu… read more
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"I measure men by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, and I find all of them are assholes."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. How To Become A Writer
By: Lorrie Moore
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'How To Become a Writer' is one of the stories in Lorrie Moore's debut collection Self-Help. This s… read more
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7. The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
By: John Dufresne
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Finally, a truly creative--and hilarious--guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and soun… read more
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8. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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9. Bloodchild
By: Octavia E. Butler
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more
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11. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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13. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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14. What You Pawn I Will Redeem
By: Sherman Alexie
3.42
Format: None pages,
A homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty year… read more
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15. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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16. Happy Endings
By: Margaret Atwood
4.12
Format: 440 pages, ebook
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more
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17. 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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18. Song of Myself
By: Walt Whitman
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more
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19. Stone Animals
By: Kelly Link
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A family moves into a house, a possibly haunted house, and the rabbits on the front porch stir and … read more
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20. 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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21. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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22. Two Kinds
By: Amy Tan
3.20
Format: None pages,
"Two kinds" is a short story from the book The Joy Luck Clubby Amy Tan. It was first published in 1… read more
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23. The Great Silence
By: Karen Joy Fowler , Ted Chiang
3.68
Format: 113 pages,
"Ted Chiang's very short story, 'The Great Silence' adds another set of questions to the Fermi Para… read more
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24. The Husband Stitch
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.36
Format: 45 pages, ebook
"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ … read more
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"I feel as lonely as I have ever been"-Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch
25. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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28. The Third and Final Continent
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 19 pages, None
"I left India in 1964 with a certificate in commerce and the equivalent, in those days, of ten doll… read more
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29. Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot
By: Robert Olen Butler
3.72
Format: None pages, None
A re-imagining of a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler. A man dies suddenly a… read more
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30. What Feels Like the World
By: Richard Bausch
3.97
Format: 15 pages, ebook
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31. If You Sing Like That For Me
By: Akhil Sharma
3.61
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
"What distinguishes a great story writer from a mediocre one? Akhil Sharma would be among the few l… read more
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