8 must-read short stories books like 48 Blitz by Brett Biebel

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48 Blitz

By: Brett Biebel

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Set along the 455 Nebraska miles of Interstate 80, the 48 stories in Brett Biebel’s debut collectio…

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1. Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song

By: Kara Vernor

4.41

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost lo… read more

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  • short stories
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2. Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover

By: Mila Jaroniec

4.16

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Through flashbacks, photographs, confessions and letters, we discover our narrator—as queer sex sto… read more

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3. I Once Met You But You Were Dead

By: S.J. Sindu

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2016 TURNBUCKLE CHAPBOOK CONTEST I Once Met You But You Were Dead is a hybrid chapboo… read more

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4. Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home

By: None

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home delivers on its title with wonderfully knowing stories at once gene… read more

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5. The State That Springfield Is in

By: None

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inspired by America's most prominent hallmark of modern pop culture, The Simpsons, poet Tom C. Hunl… read more

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6. felt in the jaw

By: Kristen Arnett

4.25

Format: 194 pages,

In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women a… read more

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7. The Mother-in-Law

By: Sally Hepworth

3.97

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A twisty, compelling novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that e… read more

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"Но, ако нешто сум научила во животот, тоа е дека војни се добиваат со ум, а не со мускули."

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"Најпосле, кога се давиш, а некој ти нуди чамец за спасување, не проверуваш да не е дупнат пред да се качиш во него."

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"By the time I get out of the shower, Tom is in bed. At first I think he is asleep, but as soon as I crawl in beside him, his eyes open. “How are you going to live without me?"

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

"Можев да напишам и нешто повеќе, но на крајот, само две мудрости се вредни за да ги оставам зад себе. Напорно работев за сѐ што ми беше важно во животот. А ништо што ми беше важно не чинеше ниту пари…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

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8. This Is How It Always Is

By: Laurie Frankel

4.28

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more

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"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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9. The Church of Wrestling

By: Emily Thomas Mani

4.27

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Jenny Arsenault is an undefeated wrestler, thanks in large part to the guiding prin… read more

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10. The Space Poet

By: Samantha Edmonds

4.74

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

In this hybrid work of prose and poetry, Samantha Edmonds tells the story of an artist—the first in… read more

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11. Tracing the Desire Line

By: Melissa Matthewson

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The st… read more

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12. Flee

By: Calvin Walds

4.80

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move. Flee is… read more

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13. Double Negative

By: Claudia Putnam

4.80

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Double Negative examines the grammatical l… read more

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14. The Part That Burns

By: Jeannine Ouellette

4.26

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

“You can tear a thing apart and tape it back together,” writes Jeannine Ouellette, “and it will sti… read more

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15. The Incredible Shrinking Woman

By: Athena Dixon

4.50

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection, The Incredibl… read more

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16. Hungry People

By: Tasha Coryell

4.57

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

"In Hungry People, Tasha Coryell gives us food for hungry hearts. The women are anxious and complic… read more

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  • short stories
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17. The Quiet Part Loud

By: Tyler Barton

4.61

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Tyler Barton's flash fiction chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud, is a collection of eleven very short st… read more

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18. This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.

By: Jennifer Wortman

4.69

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. contains thirteen stories, full-length and flash, that expl… read more

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19. The Invention of Love

By: Sara Schaff

4.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What is love, if not an invention -- not just a human instinct but an artful construction? The wome… read more

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  • short stories
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20. An Inventory of Abandoned Things

By: Kelly Ann Jacobson

4.47

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Fiction Chapbook Contest ​In Kelly Ann Jacobson's An Inventory of Abandoned T… read more

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21. My Share of the Body

By: Devon Capizzi

4.82

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

My Share of the Body, Devon Capizzi's debut story collection, explores loss and the cost of coming … read more

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22. 48 Blitz

By: Brett Biebel

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Set along the 455 Nebraska miles of Interstate 80, the 48 stories in Brett Biebel’s debut collectio… read more

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23. Maybe This Is What I Deserve

By: Tucker Leighty-Phillips

4.91

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy ​Tucker Leighty-Phillips b… read more

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24. Exit the Body: Essays

By: Heather Bartel

5.00

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays c… read more

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25. Halfway from Home

By: Sarah Fawn Montgomery

4.81

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

When she left a chaotic home at eighteen, Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming place… read more

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21 best-selling fiction books like The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Lisa Jewell

4.12

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Alice Feeney

3.66

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