9 best-selling literary fiction books like Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Chrysalis by Anuja  Varghese

1. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

Similar categories in Anuja Varghese's Chrysalis book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

2. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

Cover of The Future by Catherine Leroux

3. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

4. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Behind You by Catherine  Hernandez

5. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor

6. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

Similar categories in Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
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7. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

8. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

9. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Prairie Edge book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

10. Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

11. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
Cover of Wild Failure: Stories by Zoe Whittall

12. Wild Failure: Stories

By: Zoe Whittall

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's Wild Failure: Stories book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
Cover of Curiosities by Anne Fleming

13. Curiosities

By: Anne Fleming

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling literary-historical novel with a modern twist, in the vein of Fingersmith by Sarah Wate… read more

Similar categories in Anne Fleming's Curiosities book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Last Woman: Stories by Carleigh Baker

14. Last Woman: Stories

By: Carleigh Baker

3.94

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the country’s most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction tha… read more

Similar categories in Carleigh Baker's Last Woman: Stories book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
Cover of real ones by Katherena Vermette

15. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Shelley Wood

16. The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

By: Shelley Wood

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An inspired, sweeping, historical epic tracing the remarkable life story of a baby girl born on lea… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Wood's The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
Cover of In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel by Jane Urquhart

17. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel

By: Jane Urquhart

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more

Similar categories in Jane Urquhart's In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Knowing by Tanya Talaga

18. The Knowing

By: Tanya Talaga

4.69

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers , an urgent explora… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Talaga's The Knowing book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • canada
Cover of Peacocks of Instagram: Stories by Deepa Rajagopalan

19. Peacocks of Instagram: Stories

By: Deepa Rajagopalan

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Peacocks of Instagram is a fresh and intimate debut collection of short stories suffused with the d… read more

Similar categories in Deepa Rajagopalan's Peacocks of Instagram: Stories book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bad Land by Corinna Chong

20. Bad Land

By: Corinna Chong

3.94

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past Re… read more

Similar categories in Corinna Chong's Bad Land book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill

21. The Capital of Dreams

By: Heather O'Neill

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more

Similar categories in Heather O'Neill's The Capital of Dreams book and Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada

20 best-selling fiction books like Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

Transform Your Habits

Chrysalis

Anuja Varghese

3.96

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Denison Avenue

Christina Wong

4.17

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The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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