8 Top short stories books like Awayland by Ramona Ausubel

Cover of Awayland by Ramona Ausubel

Awayland

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w…

"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

If you liked the short stories plot in Awayland by Ramona Ausubel , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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

Similar categories in Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves book and Ramona Ausubel's Awayland

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"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

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2. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

By: Kathleen Collins

3.84

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The South must be a terrible place."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

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3. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

By: A.S. Byatt

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and … read more

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6. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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7. I'm Starved for You (Positron, #1)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.33

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order b… read more

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8. The Bed Moved

By: Rebecca Schiff

4.34

Format: None pages, ebook

The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a col… read more

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9. Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories

By: Kevin Wilson

3.80

Format: 288 pages, ebook

“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories book and Ramona Ausubel's Awayland

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

10. How to Love a Jamaican

By: Alexia Arthurs

3.85

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. How to Draw a Novel

By: Martín Solares

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of  The Black Minutes  and  Don’t Send Flowers ,  How to Draw a Novel  is… read more

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12. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and Ramona Ausubel's Awayland

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • audiobook
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13. The Bloater

By: Rosemary Tonks

3.47

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Stag by Karen Russell

14. Stag

By: Karen Russell

3.32

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Beautiful Days

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.47

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

17. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Awayland by Ramona Ausubel

18. Awayland

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Ausubel's Awayland book and Ramona Ausubel's Awayland

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

Cover of Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais

19. Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair

By: June Gervais

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo… read more

Similar categories in June Gervais's Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair book and Ramona Ausubel's Awayland

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael  Zapata

20. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"His father was a pirate."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

Cover of The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution by Daniel José Older

21. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

By: Daniel José Older

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

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