14 must-read short stories books like The Caterpillar by Lydia Davis

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The Caterpillar

By: Lydia Davis

3.93

Format: 1 pages, None

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If you liked the short stories plot in The Caterpillar by Lydia Davis , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Adult Onset

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about… read more

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  • fiction
"Non sa bene quanti “altri"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset

"She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though cla…"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset

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2. The Lake House

By: Kate Morton

4.43

Format: None pages,

Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inq… read more

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  • fiction
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3. This Must Be the Place

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.77

Format: None pages,

A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award--an irre… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. the kimono

By: H.E. Bates

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Unbound

Short story of a man and his love read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

6. The Legacy

By: Virginia Woolf

4.12

Format: 29 pages, ebook

This is an e-publication of one short story. The free download link for this book is below under "d… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more

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  • short stories

8. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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9. Happy Endings

By: Margaret Atwood

4.12

Format: 440 pages, ebook

Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more

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10. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

By: Mark Dunn

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South C… read more

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11. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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12. Caribou Island

By: David Vann

4.35

Format: 255 pages,

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary… read more

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13. Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Carme Solé Vendrell

3.54

Format: None pages,

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that begins with a couple, Pelayo and Elisend… read more

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14. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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15. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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  • fiction
"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

16. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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17. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Night Ship

By: Jess Kidd

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more

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  • fiction
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19. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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20. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Lady with the Little Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

3.72

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"

-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

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22. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.77

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

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23. Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more

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  • fiction
"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

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24. 2023 on Goodreads

By: Various

4.11

Format: None pages, None

Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 202… read more

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  • short stories
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25. 2022 on Goodreads

By: Various

4.08

Format: None pages, None

Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 202… read more

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26. How I Met My Husband

By: Alice Munro

3.61

Format: 14 pages, None

How I Met My Husband is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. The Caterpillar

By: Lydia Davis

3.93

Format: 1 pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. Breakfast

By: John Steinbeck

3.71

Format: None pages, None

Breakfast is a simple short story by John Steinbeck in which purity of living is described. The sto… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. The Exchange

By: Jon Langford

3.67

Format: 3 pages, ebook

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Exch978.shtml Fiction, Short Story “Hello, s… read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Harvest

By: Amy Hempel

3.95

Format: None pages, None

A woman gets hurt in an accident and relates what happened. She also tells us when she’s exaggerati… read more

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  • short stories
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31. The Grave

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.50

Format: 4 pages, ebook

"The Grave" appears as part of a group of stories called "The Old Order." Taken as a whole, the sto… read more

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  • short stories

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.27

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Kate Morton

4.43

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3.77

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3.90

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4.07

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