9 Top short stories books like Demigods and Monsters: Stories by Caroline S. Hau

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Demigods and Monsters: Stories

By: Caroline S. Hau

3.88

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A child commits an unspeakable act against another child. A woman avails herself of the services of…

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1. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

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"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman

2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

Similar categories in Art Spiegelman's Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

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3. Para Kay B (o kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin)

By: Ricky Lee

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alam mo ba ang ibig-sabihin ng "CONJURE"? Isa ka bang Capital S? Me quota ang pag-ibig. Sa bawat li… read more

Similar categories in Ricky Lee's Para Kay B (o kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin) book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

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5. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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6. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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  • fiction
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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7. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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8. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

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9. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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10. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

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11. Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories

By: Yvette Tan

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Yvette Tan, one of the Philippines’ most celebrated horror writers, returns with her second short s… read more

Similar categories in Yvette Tan's Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
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12. Yñiga

By: Glenn Diaz

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Yñiga Calinauan’s quiet life is upended when a retired army general wanted for the murder of peasan… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Diaz's Yñiga book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • fiction
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13. How to Grieve

By: Jade Mark Capiñanes

3.85

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

How do you deal with a broken heart? In typical Jade Mark Capiñanes fashion, How to Grieve offers h… read more

Similar categories in Jade Mark Capiñanes's How to Grieve book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction

14. Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother

By: Eliza Victoria

4.09

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

In this highly anticipated follow-up to 2012’s “A Bottle of Storm Clouds,” award-winning author Eli… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Victoria's Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
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15. Brief Histories

By: Don Jaucian

4.21

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Is queer happiness possible? Brief Histories explores this question through 16 sketches hinged … read more

Similar categories in Don Jaucian's Brief Histories book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

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16. Bagets: An Anthology of Filipino Young Adult Fiction

By: Carla M. Pacis

4.17

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories, written in both English and Filipino, for Filipino teenagers that di… read more

Similar categories in Carla M. Pacis's Bagets: An Anthology of Filipino Young Adult Fiction book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
Cover of Demigods and Monsters: Stories by Caroline S. Hau

17. Demigods and Monsters: Stories

By: Caroline S. Hau

3.88

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A child commits an unspeakable act against another child. A woman avails herself of the services of… read more

Similar categories in Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories book and Caroline S. Hau's Demigods and Monsters: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Armor

By: John Bengan

4.03

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • short stories

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3.98

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4.09

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3.72

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Mariana Enríquez

3.81

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4.22

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Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

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Agustina Bazterrica

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