9 best-selling short stories books like Eastmouth and Other Stories by Alison Moore

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Eastmouth and Other Stories

By: Alison Moore

4.32

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Alison Moore's debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, gathered together stories wri…

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1. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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2. Reservoir 13

By: Jon McGregor

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more

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  • british literature
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3. The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)

By: Peter May

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants… read more

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4. Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more

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5. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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6. Our Endless Numbered Days

By: Claire Fuller

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in … read more

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7. The Trespasser

By: Tana French

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Tana French is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough,… read more

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8. Hangsaman

By: Shirley Jackson

4.40

Format: 304 pages,

HANGSAMAN is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediate… read more

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9. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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10. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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11. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • horror
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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12. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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13. 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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  • short stories
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14. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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15. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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16. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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  • british literature
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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17. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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18. Games and Rituals

By: Katherine Heiny

3.82

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more

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  • short stories
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"

-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals

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19. Take What You Need

By: Idra Novey

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more

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20. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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21. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more

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  • british literature
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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22. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

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  • horror
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23. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

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  • short stories
  • british literature
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

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24. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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  • short stories
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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25. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

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26. The Fell

By: Sarah Moss

3.63

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more

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  • british literature
"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."

-Sarah Moss, The Fell

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27. Family and Borghesia

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian w… read more

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  • short stories
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28. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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29. The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The Reservoir Tapes returns to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor's Man Booker Prize-longl… read more

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  • short stories
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30. Death Cookies

By: Jean Sprackland

4.30

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
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31. Eastmouth and Other Stories

By: Alison Moore

4.32

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Alison Moore's debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, gathered together stories wri… read more

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Reservoir 13

Jon McGregor

3.93

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Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson

3.85

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On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Laura Cumming

3.58

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Natasha Brown

3.84

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Kate Morton

4.07

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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