9 must-read literary fiction books like The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes

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The Lydia Steptoe Stories

By: Djuna Barnes

3.38

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Will O' the Mill by Robert Louis Stevenson

1. Will O' the Mill

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Will o' the Mill is a short-story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 Nov… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's Will O' the Mill book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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2. Mrs Fox

By: Sarah Hall

4.15

Format: 399 pages, ebook

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hall's Mrs Fox book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

3. Homeland and Other Stories

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages,

Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more

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4. Giacomo Joyce

By: James Joyce

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more

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5. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine

By: Thom Jones

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more

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6. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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7. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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8. The Inner Room

By: Robert Aickman

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more

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9. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Mr Salary book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

Cover of The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan

10. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's The Forester's Daughter book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath

11. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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12. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro

13. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Kazuo Ishiguro's Come Rain or Come Shine book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. Fairy Tales

By: Marianne Moore

3.25

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Moore's Fairy Tales book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz

15. The Cheater's Guide to Love

By: Junot Díaz

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Junot Díaz's The Cheater's Guide to Love book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literature
  • fiction
  • american
  • short stories
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16. Żubrówka. Una storia di Natale

By: Sarban

3.37

Format: 27 pages, ebook

In Arabia la notte di Natale può fare parecchio caldo. E se da una credenza, in una casetta dei sob… read more

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17. La casa dei ricchi

By: Carlo Emilio Gadda

2.92

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Nel 1948 le «miserrime configurazioni argentarie» spingono Gadda ad accettare un arduo incarico: ri… read more

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Cover of The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes

18. The Lydia Steptoe Stories

By: Djuna Barnes

3.38

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • female authors
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • queer
Cover of The Victim by P.D. James

19. The Victim

By: P.D. James

3.76

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more

Similar categories in P.D. James's The Victim book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

20. An Elegy for Easterly

By: Petina Gappah

3.51

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more

Similar categories in Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Cosmopolitan by Akhil Sharma

21. Cosmopolitan

By: Akhil Sharma

3.32

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan book and Djuna Barnes's The Lydia Steptoe Stories

  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction

13 Best fiction books like The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes

Transform Your Habits

Will O' the Mill

Robert Louis Stevenson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Fox

Sarah Hall

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Mr Salary

Sally Rooney

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Forester's Daughter

Claire Keegan

4.07

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18 best-selling fiction books like Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Fox

Sarah Hall

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Mr Salary

Sally Rooney

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Paradise

Edna O'Brien

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead

Milan Kundera

3.70

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