Alligator and Other Stories
By: Dima Alzayat
3.90
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat’s collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing wit…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Everyone said to bear the years. Nothing but time will make it better, they said. But time's a stretched rubber band bound to snap right back into place."-Dima Alzayat, Alligator and Other Stories
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1. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. American Indian Stories
By: Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical… read more
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- short stories
3. The Queue
By: Basma Abdel Aziz , Elisabeth Jaquette
3.92
Format: 98 pages,
Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queueis a chilling debut that evokes O… read more
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- fiction
4. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- contemporary
5. White Is for Witching
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole pu… read more
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- fiction
"But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you"-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"The water was so cold on her skin that it felt dry."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
6. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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8. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- fiction
9. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Sacrificios humanos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoa… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
12. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
By: Malika Moustadraf
3.83
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- contemporary
13. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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14. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
15. Diary of a Void
By: Emi Yagi
3.51
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
16. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- 21st century
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
19. Abundance
By: Jakob Guanzon
3.85
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction A wrenching debut about the causes and effects … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
20. Seoul Before Sunrise
By: Samir Dahmani
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Haunted by a lost friendship, Seong-Ji (re)discovers herself during nocturnal exploration of a drea… read more
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- contemporary
21. Alligator and Other Stories
By: Dima Alzayat
3.90
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat’s collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 21st century
- contemporary
"Everyone said to bear the years. Nothing but time will make it better, they said. But time's a stretched rubber band bound to snap right back into place."-Dima Alzayat, Alligator and Other Stories
