5 Best literature books like New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza

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New and Selected Stories

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.96

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza’s remarkable career, and this book is…

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Cover of Sphinx by Anne Garréta, Emma Ramadan

1. Sphinx

By: Anne Garréta , Emma Ramadan

3.74

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and … read more

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  • fiction
"I concluded that making love without laughing was as bad as gifting a book written in a language the recipient does not know."

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

"To clutch someone in my arms took on, without fail, a singular sense of indignity, the taste of putrefaction. When I embrace someone I am submerged in a feeling of infamy, in the nauseating sensation…"

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

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2. Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

3. The Skating Rink

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rinkoscillates be… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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4. Signs Preceding the End of the World

By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more

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  • fiction

5. Space Invaders

By: Nona Fernández , Jaime Pinos

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. The Last Samurai

By: Helen DeWitt

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more

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7. Maud Martha

By: Gwendolyn Brooks

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more

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8. Aquí no es Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more

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  • short stories
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

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9. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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11. The Long Form

By: Kate Briggs

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

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12. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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13. Mona

By: Pola Oloixarac

3.30

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more

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  • fiction
"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"

-Pola Oloixarac, Mona

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14. The Houseguest and Other Stories

By: Amparo Dávila

3.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "

-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories

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15. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Some of Them Will Carry Me

By: Giada Scodellaro

3.65

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a boldly original collection of stories ranging in length, style, and t… read more

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  • short stories
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17. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

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  • fiction
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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18. Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yōko Tawada

3.27

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more

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  • fiction
"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."

-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth

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19. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

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20. Slum Wolf

By: Tadao Tsuge

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the stree… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. New and Selected Stories

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.96

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza’s remarkable career, and this book is… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

16 Best fiction books like New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza

Transform Your Habits

Sphinx

Anne Garréta , Emma Ramadan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Jagannath

Karin Tidbeck

3.62

The Skating Rink

Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman

3.49

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21 best-selling fiction books like The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

Transform Your Habits

Vertigo

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Slow Learner

Thomas Pynchon

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnel

William H. Gass

4.17

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