21 must-read short stories books like Three Types of Solitude by Brian W. Aldiss

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Three Types of Solitude

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.46

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at…

"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

If you liked the short stories plot in Three Types of Solitude by Brian W. Aldiss , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Mrs Fox

By: Sarah Hall

4.15

Format: 399 pages, ebook

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

3. Regarde les lumières mon amour

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more

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4. Homeland and Other Stories

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages,

Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more

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5. Giacomo Joyce

By: James Joyce

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more

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6. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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7. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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8. The Inner Room

By: Robert Aickman

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more

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9. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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11. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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12. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • fiction
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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13. Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. The White Book

By: Han Kang

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"

-Han Kang, The White Book

Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

15. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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18. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. Dante and the Lobster

By: Samuel Beckett

3.32

Format: None pages, None

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Terrific Mother

By: Lorrie Moore

3.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Shanti

By: Vikram Chandra

3.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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23. The Country Funeral

By: John McGahern

3.84

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Fairy Tales

By: Marianne Moore

3.25

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz

26. The Cheater's Guide to Love

By: Junot Díaz

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Ghostly Stories

By: Celia Fremlin

3.65

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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28. An Elegy for Easterly

By: Petina Gappah

3.51

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more

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  • fiction
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29. Cosmopolitan

By: Akhil Sharma

3.32

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Three Types of Solitude

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.46

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

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31. Daughters of Passion

By: Julia O'Faolain

3.40

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like Three Types of Solitude by Brian W. Aldiss

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Fox

Sarah Hall

4.15

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Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Mr Salary

Sally Rooney

3.78

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25 Best fiction books like The Country Funeral by John McGahern

Transform Your Habits

Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

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Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

Claire Keegan

3.46

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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The Queen of Dirt Island

Donal Ryan

4.09

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