14 Best short stories books like Mostly Hero by Anna Burns

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Mostly Hero

By: Anna Burns

3.51

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Femme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme’s G…

If you liked the short stories plot in Mostly Hero by Anna Burns , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Mrs Fox

By: Sarah Hall

4.15

Format: 399 pages, ebook

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hall's Mrs Fox book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Homeland and Other Stories

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages,

Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more

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3. Giacomo Joyce

By: James Joyce

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more

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4. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

By: Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As seen on Tiktok,  Rainbow History Class  is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more

Similar categories in Hannah McElhinney's Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • audiobook
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5. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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6. Topographia Hibernica

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.33

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more

Similar categories in Blindboy Boatclub's Topographia Hibernica book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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7. From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

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8. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's The Forester's Daughter book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. Tennis Lessons

By: Susannah Dickey

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Tennis Lessons book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Cheri

By: Jo Ann Beard

4.23

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the … read more

Similar categories in Jo Ann Beard's Cheri book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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12. Havana Year Zero

By: Karla Suárez

3.63

Format: 256 pages, None

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z… read more

Similar categories in Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Kazuo Ishiguro's Come Rain or Come Shine book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • british literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Dante and the Lobster

By: Samuel Beckett

3.32

Format: None pages, None

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Dante and the Lobster book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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15. Terrific Mother

By: Lorrie Moore

3.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's Terrific Mother book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Mostly Hero

By: Anna Burns

3.51

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Femme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme’s G… read more

Similar categories in Anna Burns's Mostly Hero book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • british literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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17. Fairy Tales

By: Marianne Moore

3.25

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Moore's Fairy Tales book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
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19. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

By: Alan Bennett

3.96

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bennett's The Shielding of Mrs Forbes book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Ghostly Stories

By: Celia Fremlin

3.65

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Celia Fremlin's Ghostly Stories book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Daughters of Passion

By: Julia O'Faolain

3.40

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Julia O'Faolain's Daughters of Passion book and Anna Burns's Mostly Hero

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature

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Sarah Hall

4.15

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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4.33

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From a Low and Quiet Sea

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3.78

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4.15

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Sally Rooney

3.78

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Edna O'Brien

3.44

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Milan Kundera

3.70

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