13 best-selling fiction books like Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson

Cover of Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson

Triumph of the Egg

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.88

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson

If you liked the fiction plot in Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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  • american
  • fiction
"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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2. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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  • fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

Cover of A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

3. A Clean Well Lighted Place

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • american
Cover of A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

4. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • 20th century
Cover of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

5. 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
  • fiction
  • american
"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

6. Llamadas telefónicas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Decia Hemingway que un buen relato debe ser como un iceberg; lo que se ve es siempre menos que lo q… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

7. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, None

8. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

9. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

10. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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11. Putas asesinas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

<>se narra un viaje a Acapulco que se convierte paulatinamente en un des-censo a los infiernos. En … read more

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12. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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13. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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14. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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15. Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more

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16. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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17. La felicidad conyugal

By: Leo Tolstoy , Selma Ancira

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

En esta bellisima historia, Tolstoi nos habla del amor y del matrimonio a traves de la historia de … read more

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Cover of Trick by Domenico Starnone

18. Trick

By: Domenico Starnone

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more

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  • fiction
"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

Cover of Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

19. Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

4.00

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From the “Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner),” a writer who “shares the elemental grandeur of Corma… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Le lacrime sono fatte come remi, il dolore e la tristezza vogano. Chi piange a un funerale, piange nondimeno la propria morte e quella del mondo, perché tutto muore e alla fine non resta niente. - Lu…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"في الصمت يدخر الذهب، ذاك الذي يبقى صامتا يلتزم بنفسه، يمكنه اكتشاف امور مختلفة، الصمت يتسرب تحت الجلد، يسكن القلب، يخدر القلق، يغمر الغرفة التي يشغلها المرء، يملأ البيت، وفي الخارج يهدر الزمن الحاضر،…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"En de vogels op de muren zijn zo levendig geschilderd dat de kat uit de buurt, een geel rotbeest dat ons al van nodeloos veel vogels heeft beroofd, de eerste weken herhaaldelijk tegen het gebouw op s…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

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20. The Spirit of Science Fiction

By: Roberto Bolaño

3.46

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a su… read more

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  • fiction
"What a lovely young man,"

-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction

"There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare."

-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction

"The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course."

-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction

"She sighed wickedly. “I wasn’t even saying good-bye to him, but to his penis. Ten inches. I measured it myself with my mother’s measuring tape."

-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction

Cover of Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson

21. Triumph of the Egg

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.88

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • american

8 Top short stories books like Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson

Transform Your Habits

A Clean Well Lighted Place

Ernest Hemingway

3.72

Transform Your Habits

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

3.93

Llamadas telefónicas

Roberto Bolaño

4.27

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16 must-read fiction books like Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Transform Your Habits

Il pastore d'Islanda

Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Maria Valeria D'Avino , Gunnar Gunnarsson

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Maskeblomstfamilien

Lars Saabye Christensen

3.73

Transform Your Habits

De usynlige (Ingrid Barrøy, #1)

Roy Jacobsen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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