18 Best fiction books like If You Sing Like That For Me by Akhil Sharma

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If You Sing Like That For Me

By: Akhil Sharma

3.61

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

"What distinguishes a great story writer from a mediocre one? Akhil Sharma would be among the few l…

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Cover of The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth

1. The Conversion of the Jews

By: Philip Roth

3.99

Format: 40 pages, Library Binding

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. 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
  • fiction
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3. Sonny's Blues

By: James Baldwin

4.30

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

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4. Friend of My Youth

By: Alice Munro

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulte… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. 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
  • fiction

6. Harmony of the World: Stories

By: Charles Baxter

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. What You Pawn I Will Redeem

By: Sherman Alexie

3.42

Format: None pages,

A homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty year… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. Haircut

By: Ring Lardner

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

A barber regales a customer with stories about some of the characters in his small town. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

9. Babylon Revisited

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more

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10. Gone with the Wind

By: Margaret Mitchell

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gone with the Windis a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is se… read more

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11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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12. I Stand Here Ironing

By: Tillie Olsen

3.75

Format: 40 pages,

Published in Tillie Olsen's short story collection "Tell Me a Riddle" in 1961. read more

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13. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more

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14. My Old Man

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.16

Format: 200 pages, ebook

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15. Friends

By: Grace Paley

3.21

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
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16. Brothers

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.05

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Helping

By: Robert Stone

3.70

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Limited edition of this short story, one of only 100 copies signed by Stone, hand set in Centaur ty… read more

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  • short stories
"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."

-Robert Stone, Helping

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18. The Gay Old Dog

By: Edna Ferber

3.70

Format: 20 pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

19. By The River

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.30

Format: 17 pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

20. The Conventional Wisdom

By: Stanley Elkin

3.54

Format: 24 pages, None

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  • short stories

21. Lawns

By: Mona Simpson

4.16

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Brownies

By: Z.Z. Packer

3.82

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

23. Diem Perdidi

By: Julie Otsuka

4.17

Format: 10 pages, None

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  • short stories
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24. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. 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
  • fiction
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26. If You Sing Like That For Me

By: Akhil Sharma

3.61

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

"What distinguishes a great story writer from a mediocre one? Akhil Sharma would be among the few l… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. The Girl on the Plane

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.42

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

28. Xuela

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.00

Format: 18 pages, None

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  • short stories

29. Displacement

By: David Wong Louie

3.40

Format: 15 pages, None

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  • short stories
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30. Those Are As Brothers

By: Nancy Hale

3.96

Format: 10 pages, None

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  • short stories

31. Communist

By: Richard Ford

3.12

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Limited to 240 numbered copies, this being one of 180 bound thus and signed by the author.Title pag… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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3.99

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