17 best-selling short stories books like Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka

Diem Perdidi

By: Julie Otsuka

4.17

Format: 10 pages, None

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Cover of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

1. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

By: Karen Russell

3.79

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magic… read more

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"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."

-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"

-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

"There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."

-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

"i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters."

-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Cover of The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass

2. The Hermit's Story

By: Rick Bass

4.10

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The Hermit’s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a… read more

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  • short stories
"You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard w…"

-Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story

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3. Fiesta, 1980

By: Junot Díaz

3.46

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, cons… read more

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  • short stories
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4. 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
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5. Taking Care

By: Joy Williams

4.12

Format: None pages,

Stories deal with a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, childhood f… read more

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  • short stories
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6. The School

By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky

3.79

Format: 128 pages,

When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more

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  • short stories
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7. A Conversation With My Father

By: Grace Paley

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Short Story

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  • short stories
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8. Emergency

By: Denis Johnson

4.38

Format: None pages, Podcast

I'd like to strongly recommend that you listen to this month's fiction podcast, in which Tobias Wol… read more

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  • short stories

9. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

By: Louise Erdrich

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

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10. The Great Silence

By: Karen Joy Fowler , Ted Chiang

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

"Ted Chiang's very short story, 'The Great Silence' adds another set of questions to the Fermi Para… read more

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11. The Way We Live Now

By: Susan Sontag

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Depois que um jovem antiquario bissexual contrai o virus HIV, um grupo de amigos se mobiliza para a… read more

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12. 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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13. A Temporary Matter

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.18

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characte… read more

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  • short stories
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14. The Paper Menagerie

By: Ken Liu

4.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more

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"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"

-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

Cover of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John   Freeman

15. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

By: John Freeman

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 20… read more

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  • short stories
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16. Brownies

By: Z.Z. Packer

3.82

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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17. Brazen

By: Elaine Hopper

1.95

Format: 7 pages, ebook

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Braz.shtml Fiction, Short Story Sick of the … read more

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18. Diem Perdidi

By: Julie Otsuka

4.17

Format: 10 pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri

19. The Third and Final Continent

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 19 pages, None

"I left India in 1964 with a certificate in commerce and the equivalent, in those days, of ten doll… read more

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Cover of 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series) by Lorrie Moore

20. 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series)

By: Lorrie Moore

4.13

Format: 753 pages, Kindle Edition

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in … read more

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  • short stories

21. Displacement

By: David Wong Louie

3.40

Format: 15 pages, None

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24 Top short stories books like Displacement by David Wong Louie

Transform Your Habits

The Conversion of the Jews

Philip Roth

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The School

Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky

3.79

Harmony of the World: Stories

Charles Baxter

3.76

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