7 best-selling short stories books like Another Dozen Stories (Puffin Classics) by Satyajit Ray

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Another Dozen Stories (Puffin Classics)

By: Satyajit Ray

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Celebrating 100 years of Satyajit RayA classic keepsake edition, featuring 12 fascinating stories b…

If you liked the short stories plot in Another Dozen Stories (Puffin Classics) by Satyajit Ray , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • fiction
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. English, August: An Indian Story

By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more

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  • fiction
"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

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3. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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  • fiction
"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

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4. The Liberation of Sita

By: Volga

2.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, a triumphant king who will a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

5. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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6. The Blue Umbrella

By: Ruskin Bond

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'… read more

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  • short stories
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Azima Melita Kolin, Maryam Mafi

7. Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Azima Melita Kolin , Maryam Mafi

4.00

Format: 205 pages,

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8. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly p… read more

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  • fiction

9. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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10. Waiting for the Mahatma

By: R.K. Narayan

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sriram is twenty. As a mark of his coming of age his grandmother allows his the pass-book to his sa… read more

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11. The Devourers

By: Indra Das

2.62

Format: None pages,

On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musi… read more

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12. Selected Poems

By: गुलज़ार , Pavan K. Varma

3.20

Format: None pages,

Gulzar, one of India' finest film-makers and lyricists, has always been a poet at heart. His oeuvre… read more

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13. The Twentieth Wife (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #1)

By: Indu Sundaresan

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

An enchanting seventeenth-century epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the c… read more

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14. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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15. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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16. First Person Singular: Stories

By: Haruki Murakami

3.54

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"It’s important in life to get used to losing."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

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17. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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18. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

By: Yoru Sumino

4.36

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

A Bittersweet Romance In this deeply moving first-person story, an introverted high school boy f… read more

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  • fiction
"You don't want to say my name, because you might attach a meaning to it. You're afraid to define someone you're going to lose as a 'friend' or 'girlfriend'."

-Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

"认可某人。喜欢某人,讨厌某人。跟谁在一起很开心,跟谁在一起很郁闷;跟谁牵手,跟谁拥抱;跟谁擦身而过。那就是活着。只有一个人的话,就不知道自己是否存在。喜欢某人、讨厌某人的我,跟谁在一起很开心、跟谁在一起很郁闷的我。我觉得我和这些人的关系,就是我活着的意义,而不是别人的。我的心是因为大家在才存在,我的身体是因为大家触碰才存在。这样构成的我,现在活着。还在这里活着。所以人活着是有意义的。就跟你和我都…"

-Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

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19. The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic

By: Sudha Murty

4.31

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

What would you do if a bird with golden wings alighted on your terrace and offered you fabulous ric… read more

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  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Another Dozen Stories (Puffin Classics)

By: Satyajit Ray

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Celebrating 100 years of Satyajit RayA classic keepsake edition, featuring 12 fascinating stories b… read more

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  • childrens
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Song of the forest: Tales from here, there, and everywhere

By: Ruskin Bond

4.33

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Ruskin Bond is a master of the short story. This pitch-perfect collection brings together the very … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

13 Top fiction books like Another Dozen Stories (Puffin Classics) by Satyajit Ray

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

English, August: An Indian Story

Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

Agatha Christie

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Liberation of Sita

Volga

2.74

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12 best-selling fiction books like The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic by Sudha Murty

Transform Your Habits

Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)

Jeff Kinney

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #8)

Jeff Kinney

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Getting Granny's Glasses

Ruskin Bond

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.83

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