5 best-selling short stories books like Many People Die Like You by Lina Wolff

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Many People Die Like You

By: Lina Wolff

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Europe with something like Love An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violenc…

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1. Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

2. Sweet Days of Discipline

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more

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3. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's Shy book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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4. Stacken

By: Annika Norlin

4.16

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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6. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Seven Empty Houses book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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  • sweden
  • fiction
"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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8. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • sweden
  • fiction
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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9. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Terminal Boredom: Stories book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • short stories
  • fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

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11. El tiempo de las moscas

By: Claudia Piñeiro

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Inés sale en libertad, después de quince años presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Piñeiro's El tiempo de las moscas book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Girls Against God book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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13. La tiranía de las moscas

By: Elaine Vilar Madruga

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Casandra, Caleb y Calia son tres hermanos a cada cual más insólito. Casandra, la mayor, siente atra… read more

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  • fiction
"...el proceso ni siquiera se detiene con la muerte, el pelo es lo único vivo que nos acompaña, lo único que prueba la perdurabilidad del concepto vida sobre el concepto desaparición, no somos tan fin…"

-Elaine Vilar Madruga, La tiranía de las moscas

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14. Babetta

By: Nina Wähä

3.23

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

En het sommar. En plötslig mistral. Vad är egentligen vänskap? Och vad är egentligen sant? Katja… read more

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  • sweden
  • fiction
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15. The Remainder

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.51

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they … read more

Similar categories in Alia Trabucco Zerán's The Remainder book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Off and on: one week there, the next nowhere to be seen, that’s how my dead began..."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder

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16. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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17. Mjölkat

By: Sanna Samuelsson

3.55

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

"En kille i klassen drog ett skämt om att vi drack mjölken direkt från spenen. Att vi levde på det … read more

Similar categories in Sanna Samuelsson's Mjölkat book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • fiction
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18. Tierra fresca de su tumba

By: Giovanna Rivero

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"

-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba

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19. Brightly Shining

By: Ingvild Rishøi

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Brightly Shining is a 'heartbreaking, funny and philosophical tale about the reality of addiction, … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Many People Die Like You

By: Lina Wolff

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Europe with something like Love An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violenc… read more

Similar categories in Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • sweden
  • fiction
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21. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Alia Trabucco Zerán's Clean book and Lina Wolff's Many People Die Like You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

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3.63

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4.16

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4.22

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