The Disappeared: Stories
By: Andrew Porter
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our liv…
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1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
By: Lilian Jackson Braun
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Jim Qwilleran is a prizewinning reporter who's been on the skids but is now coming back with a job … read more
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"It was a man's salad, zesty and full of crunch."-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
"When a cat, who is a picture of grace and beauty, suddenly rolls over in a hideous posture, contorts his face and scratches his ear, he is telling you, sir, to go to blazes!"-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
2. Lost In The City
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages,
A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women i… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
3. Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greate… read more
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4. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
By: Etgar Keret , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary cr… read more
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6. The Stories of John Cheever
By: John Cheever
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generatio… read more
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7. Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Psychic Eye Mystery, #1)
By: Victoria Laurie
3.67
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the de… read more
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8. The Collected Stories
By: Amy Hempel
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is a… read more
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9. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
11. Hedge
By: Jane Delury
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An emotionally charged, richly observed novel about a woman balancing the demands of motherhood and… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
13. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
14. The Faraway World: Stories
By: Patricia Engel
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
15. The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.32
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
16. We Burn Daylight
By: Bret Anthony Johnston
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more
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"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
18. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Disappeared: Stories
By: Andrew Porter
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our liv… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
20. The History of Sound: Stories
By: Ben Shattuck
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
