9 must-read short stories books like Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran

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Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer

By: Kahlil Gibran

3.88

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

This is an abridged version of Gibran's most famous work, "The Prophet", plus selections from "The …

If you liked the short stories plot in Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Good Woman of Setzuan

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan

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2. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. Jugend ohne Gott

By: Ödön von Horváth

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Das vielleicht wichtigste Werk Horvaths. Eine Erzahlung uber Respekt und Toleranz. Jugend ohne Gott… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Eleven Minutes

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven Minutesis the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent br… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction
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5. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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6. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

7. Matilda's England

By: William Trevor

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. The Angel and Other Stories

By: Patrick McGrath

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Contains The Angel, The Black Hand of the Raj, The Arnold Crombeck Story and The E(rot)ic Potato, a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

9. The Pilgrimage

By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

The Pilgrimagepaved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In man… read more

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10. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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11. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

By: Joe Dispenza

4.14

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Nous ne sommes pas condamnés par nos gènes à vivre une certaine forme d'existence. Une nouvelle sci… read more

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  • philosophy
"Your outer world is a reflection of your inner reality."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"Eres lo que eres, eres donde estás y eres quien eres por lo que piensas acerca de ti."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"Whether we’re addicted to cigarettes, chocolate, alcohol, shopping, gambling, or biting our nails, the moment we cease the habitual action, chaos rages between the body and the mind."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

12. Die dunkle Seite des Mondes

By: Martin Suter

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Starwirtschaftsanwalt Urs Blank, funfundvierzig, Fachmann fur Fusionsverhandlungen, hat seine Gefuh… read more

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13. Adam's Navel

By: Stephen Jay Gould

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Four eloquent and thought-provoking essays on natural history. Stephen Jay Gould is one of the fore… read more

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14. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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15. The Escape and Other Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Collection of five exquisite, evocative stories of human behaviour which capture brief but signific… read more

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16. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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17. Der Trafikant

By: Robert Seethaler

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Osterreich 1937: Der 17-jahrige Franz Huchel verlasst sein Heimatdorf, um in Wien als Lehrling in e… read more

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18. Kaffee und Zigaretten

By: Ferdinand von Schirach

3.95

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

'One of the most distinctive voices in European literature' (Daily Telegraph)How does the legacy of… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • short stories
"Gott ist allgütig und allmächtig. Aber wenn er das Böse erschaffen hat, kann er kein gütiger Gott sein. Und wenn er das Böse nicht erschaffen hat, aber nicht verhindern konnte, dann ist er nicht allm…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

"Die Würde des Menschen ist die strahlende Idee der Aufklärung, sie kann den Hass und die Dummheit lösen, sie ist lebensfreundlich, weil sie von unserer Endlichkeit weiß, und erst durch sie werden wir…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

"Aber was bedeutet das? Hat das Leben tatsächlich keinen Richter über sich? Und wenn doch? Ist es nicht möglich, dass wir uns irren? Wir wissen es nicht. Wir müssen uns also damit abfinden, dass es ge…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

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19. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Dschinns

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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21. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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  • fiction
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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22. Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls

By: Şeyda Kurt

3.75

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

WER HAT DIE MACHT ZU HASSEN? – Erkundung eines politischen Gefühls Der Hass, dieses knirschende, z… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
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23. A Long Night at Abu Simbel

By: Penelope Lively

3.65

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Three short stories, the first of which focuses on a group of people trapped in an Egyptian airport… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. Five Letters from an Eastern Empire

By: Alasdair Gray

4.22

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, mas… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist

By: Şeyda Kurt

3.88

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

What is love? Ist die Liebe Sinn des Lebens, eine politische Allianz, Illusion oder Selbstzweck? Od… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
"In anderen Beziehungen treffe ich auf sanfte Menschen, doch manche lügen, andere haben ihren eigenen Sandberg, den sie mir auf die Füße ausleeren. Ein anderer ist ein ehrlicher und freundlicher Mensc…"

-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist

"Ein Versprechen ist die Entscheidung, einen anderen Menschen als Konstante in das eigene Leben aufzunehmen und nach gemeinsamen Wahrheiten zu suchen. Es ist die Entscheidung, die eigene Gegenwart und…"

-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist

"Doch reicht es, wenn ich in meinen romantischen Beziehungen oder Freund*innenschaften Verantwortung übernehme? Reicht es, wenn ich nur in diesen Verhältnissen daran interessiert bin, Machtgefälle und…"

-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist

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26. Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.52

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

»Das sind die Stimmen, die wir hören müssen. Damit es in diesem Land nicht noch finsterer wird.« Ma… read more

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  • german literature
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27. هفت پیکر

By: Nizami Ganjavi

4.29

Format: 400 pages, None

The romance of the Haft Paykar ("Seven Beauties") is one of the great works of Persian literature. … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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28. Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories

By: John Updike

3.31

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer

By: Kahlil Gibran

3.88

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

This is an abridged version of Gibran's most famous work, "The Prophet", plus selections from "The … read more

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  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

3.73

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundam… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • fiction
"Am I cured?"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Collective madness is called sanity .."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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The Good Woman of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Jugend ohne Gott

Ödön von Horváth

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Eleven Minutes

Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.16

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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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