18 Top short stories books like How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie by Junot Díaz

Cover of How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie by Junot Díaz

How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie

By: Junot Díaz

3.23

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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Cover of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1) by Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

1. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)

By: Anne Rice , A.N. Roquelaure

3.22

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and… read more

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"Adorned and yet exposed. It was mystifying."

-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)

"For one moment, Beauty knew terror. But a delicious abandon took hold of her."

-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)

"You must curb your love as I curb mine. Believe me, I understand even as I condemn you."

-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)

"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."

-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)

Cover of I Bought a Little City by Donald Barthelme

2. I Bought a Little City

By: Donald Barthelme

3.48

Format: 13 pages, Kindle Edition

"I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god,… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

3. The Lesson

By: Toni Cade Bambara

3.94

Format: None pages,

...teacher takes her inner city students to FAO Swhwart read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov

4. Signs and Symbols

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Collection

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  • short stories
Cover of A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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7. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

8. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • short stories

9. LT's Theory of Pets

By: Stephen King

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Audio CD

A Rare Live Stephen King Recording! Stephen King delivers a haunting, heartfelt performance as he s… read more

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10. Reunion

By: John Cheever , Richard Ford

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Father & Son, New York City, Grand Central Station. Short story in which the narrator recalls the l… read more

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11. 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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12. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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13. A&P: Lust in the Aisles

By: John Updike

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A & P" is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person na… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. You Must Know Everything

By: Isaac Babel

4.50

Format: 144 pages,

This volume collects nineteen Babel stories of the period 1915 to 1937 that have never before been … read more

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17. 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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18. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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19. Perrault's Fairy Tales

By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more

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20. Bullet in the Brain

By: Tobias Wolff

3.82

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
"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

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21. The Lady with the Little Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

3.72

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more

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  • short stories
"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"

-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

Cover of Red Pyramid: Selected Stories by Vladimir Sorokin

22. Red Pyramid: Selected Stories

By: Vladimir Sorokin

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest R… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

23. 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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  • short stories
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24. How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie

By: Junot Díaz

3.23

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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  • short stories
Cover of When we were nearly young by Mavis Gallant

25. When we were nearly young

By: Mavis Gallant

3.19

Format: None pages, magazine

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  • short stories
Cover of The Wood Duck by James Thurber

26. The Wood Duck

By: James Thurber

3.03

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck.” Story about a wood duck who l… read more

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  • short stories
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27. Graven Image

By: John O'Hara

2.71

Format: None pages, magazine

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  • short stories
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28. Chablis

By: Donald Barthelme

3.68

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
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29. Brothers and Sisters Around the World

By: Andrea Lee

3.77

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

30. Somewhere else

By: Grace Paley

3.57

Format: None pages, None

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31. My Russian Education

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.27

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

11 Top fiction books like Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

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A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

4.30

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Araby

James Joyce

3.65

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The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

4.07

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