25 must-read fiction books like Shanti by Vikram Chandra

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Shanti

By: Vikram Chandra

3.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

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

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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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

3. 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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4. 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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5. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine

By: Thom Jones

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more

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6. 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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7. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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8. The Inner Room

By: Robert Aickman

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more

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9. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. The Goodbye Cat

By: Hiro Arikawa

3.90

Format: 285 pages, ebook

In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

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11. Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead

By: Milan Kundera

3.70

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

13. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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16. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

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  • fiction
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19. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Shanti

By: Vikram Chandra

3.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • india
  • fiction
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21. The Country Funeral

By: John McGahern

3.84

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz

23. The Cheater's Guide to Love

By: Junot Díaz

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. The Victim

By: P.D. James

3.76

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

27. An Elegy for Easterly

By: Petina Gappah

3.51

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. Cosmopolitan

By: Akhil Sharma

3.32

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Three Types of Solitude

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.46

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

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30. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. A River in Egypt

By: David Means

3.07

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

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

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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