Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th…
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1. On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
By: Haruki Murakami
3.75
Format: 5 pages,
A short story by Haruki Murakami read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle."-Haruki Murakami, On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
2. 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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- short stories
- fiction
"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
3. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
By: John Chu
3.81
Format: 22 pages, ebook
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential fl… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
4. 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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- fiction
"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
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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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- fiction
"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
7. The City Born Great
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more
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- fiction
8. The Embassy of Cambodia
By: Zadie Smith
4.38
Format: None pages,
'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
9. Premium Harmony
By: Stephen King , Steve Powers
4.06
Format: 205 pages, ebook
They've been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.--swell--but now... http:… read more
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10. Sweetness
By: Toni Morrison
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
It's not my fault. So you can't blame me. I didn't do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn'… read more
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11. 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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12. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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13. 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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14. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
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"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
16. And of Clay Are We Created
By: Isabel Allende
4.15
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
This selection is fictional, but it is based on a real event. In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombi… read more
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- fiction
17. 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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18. Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th… read more
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- coming of age
- short stories
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- contemporary
19. The Hunter's Wife
By: Anthony Doerr
3.70
Format: 2 pages, Unknown Binding
Short story, published in The Atlantic read more
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"Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, someth…"-Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife
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21. Broads
By: Roxane Gay
2.45
Format: None pages, None
Jimmy Nolan has a thing for broads—loud, brassy women who sit with their legs open and drink beer s… read more
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