9 must-read short stories books like The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto

The Legend of Miss Sasagawara

By: Hisaye Yamamoto

3.67

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Cover of The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cook

1. The Roaring Girl

By: Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook

3.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume i… read more

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2. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more

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  • short stories
"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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4. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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5. Araby

By: James Joyce

3.65

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more

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  • short stories
"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."

-James Joyce, Araby

"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"

-James Joyce, Araby

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6. Blue Hotel

By: Stephen Crane

3.56

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Nous sommes au bord de la voie ferrée, dans un hôtel du Nebraska, en 1898. C'est dans cet hôtel que… read more

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  • short stories
"Every sin is the result of a colaboration"

-Stephen Crane, Blue Hotel

"This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb."

-Stephen Crane, Blue Hotel

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7. The Comet

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

3.80

Format: 319 pages, ebook

In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over … read more

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  • short stories
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8. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

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  • short stories

9. Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more

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10. 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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  • 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

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11. Everyday Use

By: Alice Walker , Barbara T. Christian

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quil… read more

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  • short stories

12. Atonement

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more

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13. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

14. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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15. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

16. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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17. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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18. Night Walks

By: Charles Dickens

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Night walks (All the Year Round, 21 July 1860) Gone astray (Household Words, 13 August 1853) Chatha… read more

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19. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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20. 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
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

21. The Legend of Miss Sasagawara

By: Hisaye Yamamoto

3.67

Format: None pages, None

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