If you liked the fiction plot in The Black Lights by Thom Jones , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. The Five-Forty-Eight
By: Meryl Streep , John Cheever , Ben Cheever , None
3.70
Format: 164 pages, Audio
Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and te… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
2. Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.12
Format: 466 pages, Paperback
'Nothing That Meets the Eye' confirms Patricia Highsmith as a great American writer. If only Pat… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart."-Patricia Highsmith, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
"Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?"-Patricia Highsmith, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
"Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing…"-Patricia Highsmith, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
3. The Frog Prince
By: Robert Coover , Melinda Beck
4.25
Format: 159 pages, ebook
At first, it was great. Sure. It always is. She cuddled a frog, wishing for more, and--presto! A ha… read more
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- short stories
4. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
5. Dark Lies the Island
By: Kevin Barry
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday TimesEFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
6. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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- short stories
7. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Joseph Campbell , James Stern , Padraic Colum , Josef Scharl , Margaret Raine Hunt
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been pa… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
8. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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9. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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10. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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11. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
13. Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
3.26
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, f… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"-Zadie Smith, Grand Union
14. The Masculine Principle
By: Frank O'Connor
3.30
Format: None pages, None
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- short stories
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- fiction
16. In These Islands
By: Shirley Hazzard
3.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- short stories
17. Extra
By: Yiyun Li
3.84
Format: None pages, None
A short story from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, about Granny Lin, a fifty-one year old Chines… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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- short stories
- fiction
19. Naked Ladies
By: Antonya Nelson
3.89
Format: None pages, podcast
Laura Laughlin, 17, and her family attended the annual Easter frolic of the Houses, the family her … read more
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- short stories
