14 must-read short stories books like No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing

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No Witchcraft for Sale

By: Doris Lessing

3.54

Format: None pages, None

Cartea "Batranul Sef Mshlanga. Vrajile nu-s de vanzare/The Old Chief Mshlanga. No Witchcraft for Sa…

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Newbery Medal Winner (1959) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the col… read more

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  • fiction
"People are afraid of things they don’t understand."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Cover of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

3. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more

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  • fiction
"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

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4. The Tent

By: Margaret Atwood

3.68

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and en… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"All observations of life are harsh, because life is."

-Margaret Atwood, The Tent

"Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe."

-Margaret Atwood, The Tent

"Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf."

-Margaret Atwood, The Tent

"I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart."

-Margaret Atwood, The Tent

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5. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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  • fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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6. Cuore

By: Edmondo de Amicis

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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7. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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8. Address Unknown

By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

5.00

Format: 160 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, Libby Purves, Geoff Woollen

10. The Last Day of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more

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  • fiction
"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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11. The School

By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky

3.79

Format: 128 pages,

When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

12. Miss Brill

By: Katherine Mansfield , Ursula Grawe

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

13. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

14. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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15. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

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16. La ragazza con la Leica

By: Helena Janeczek

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Il 1deg agosto 1937 una sfilata piena di bandiere rosse attraversa Parigi. E il corteo funebre per … read more

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17. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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18. The Autumn of the Patriarch

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.87

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is … read more

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  • fiction
"honeyed by the breezes of love"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"fear of death is the amber of happiness"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"...el miedo a la muerte es el rescoldo de la felicidad..."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"Sabía que estaba condenado sin remedio a no morir de amor."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

19. Girl

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more

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20. Diary Of An Oxygen Thief (The Oxygen Thief Diaries #1)

By: Anonymous

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolit… read more

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21. There Will Come Soft Rains

By: Ray Bradbury

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more

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22. Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

By: James Norbury

4.40

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Joing Big Panda & Tiny Dragon on their travels. They often get lost and make a lot of mistakes. … read more

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  • fiction
"Time doing nothing is never wasted."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Incluso un árbol herido puede florecer de la forma más bella."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Intenta sacar tiempo para las pequeñas cosas, a menudo son lo más importante."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"A cherry tree doesn't compare itself to other trees,' said Big Panda, 'it just blossoms."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

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23. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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24. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

By: Halsey

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more

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"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

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25. Primeiras Estórias

By: João Guimarães Rosa

4.31

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Contos em que sobressaem os costumes e a linguagem das gentes de Minas Gerais. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Se ninguém entende ninguém, e ninguém nunca entenderá nada, jamis; esta é a prática verdade."

-João Guimarães Rosa, Primeiras Estórias

"Sou o culpado do que nem sei, de dor em aberto, no meu foro. Soubesse - se as coisas fossem outras."

-João Guimarães Rosa, Primeiras Estórias

"Ah, o tempo é o mágico de todas as traições... E os próprios olhos, de cada um de nós, padecem viciação de origem, defeitos com que cresceram e a que se afizeram mais e mais."

-João Guimarães Rosa, Primeiras Estórias

"Eles se disseram, assim eles dois, coisas grandes em palavras pequenas, ti a mim, me a ti, e tanto. Contudo, e felizes, alguma outra coisa se agitava neles, confusa - assim rosa-amor-espinhos-saudade."

-João Guimarães Rosa, Primeiras Estórias

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26. And of Clay Are We Created

By: Isabel Allende

4.15

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

This selection is fictional, but it is based on a real event. In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

27. Marriage is a Private Affair

By: Chinua Achebe

3.24

Format: 6 pages, Unknown Binding

Should a grown man and woman decide if they will marry? Or should their parents decide for them? read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Grația divină / Grace (Short stories, ediție bilingvă, #6) by James Joyce

28. Grația divină / Grace (Short stories, ediție bilingvă, #6)

By: James Joyce

3.17

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Alcoolul şi alcoolismul erau una din realităţile indubitable ale dublinezilor. În „Graţie divin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing

29. No Witchcraft for Sale

By: Doris Lessing

3.54

Format: None pages, None

Cartea "Batranul Sef Mshlanga. Vrajile nu-s de vanzare/The Old Chief Mshlanga. No Witchcraft for Sa… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. The Leap

By: Louise Erdrich

3.84

Format: 8 pages, ebook

The daughter of famed trapeze artist Anna Avalon and the man who taught her how to read and write r… read more

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  • short stories

20 Top fiction books like No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Tent

Margaret Atwood

3.68

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17 must-read fiction books like Grația divină / Grace (Short stories, ediție bilingvă, #6) by James Joyce

Transform Your Habits

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Color Out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Mile 81

Stephen King

4.31

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