5 Best short stories books like The Drunkard by Frank O'Connor

Cover of The Drunkard by Frank  O'Connor

The Drunkard

By: Frank O'Connor

3.61

Format: None pages, None

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If you liked the short stories plot in The Drunkard by Frank O'Connor , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine R. Hedges, Elaine Hedges

1. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper book and Frank O'Connor's The Drunkard

  • short stories
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

Cover of Hunters in the Snow: A Collection of Short Stories by Tobias Wolff

2. Hunters in the Snow: A Collection of Short Stories

By: Tobias Wolff

3.65

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Hunters in the Snow is a classic short story by Tobias Wolff centered around the suburbs of Spokane… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

3. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • short stories
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Cover of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

4. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies book and Frank O'Connor's The Drunkard

  • short stories
"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

5. Once Upon a Time

By: Nadine Gordimer , Alex Kingston

3.53

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer is anything but a fairy tale. It's more of a dystopian fantasy … read more

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6. The Drunkard

By: Frank O'Connor

3.61

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

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Transform Your Habits

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Junot Díaz

3.89

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Kiran Desai

4.32

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.83

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Santo Mostro

None

3.89

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