Life Among the Terranauts
By: Caitlin Horrocks
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “enthralling” ( New York Times Book Review ) and “beautiful” ( Washington Po…
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1. How to Breathe Underwater
By: Julie Orringer
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old an… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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2. The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
By: Manuel Gonzales
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
3. Sleep Donation
By: Karen Russell
3.09
Format: None pages, ebook
From the author of the New York Timesbestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
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4. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #1)
By: Drew Hayes
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Some people are born boring. Some live boring. Some even die boring. Fred managed to do all three, … read more
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5. Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more
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6. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
7. Thunderstruck & Other Stories
By: Elizabeth McCracken
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more
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8. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- collections
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- audiobook
9. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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- fiction
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- anthologies
- audiobook
10. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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11. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
12. Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
By: Leigh Newman
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Dail… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- audiobook
13. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- science fiction
- audiobook
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
14. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
15. The Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
4.18
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
16. The Incendiaries
By: R.O. Kwon
3.22
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elit… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
17. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- short stories
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
18. Reprieve
By: James Han Mattson
3.40
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Booth
By: Karen Joy Fowler
3.83
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Best Book of the Year Real Simple - AARP - USA Today From the Man Booker finalist and bestselli… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?"-Karen Joy Fowler, Booth
20. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
By: Donna Freitas
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother—and the many ways t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss."-Donna Freitas, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
21. Orange World and Other Stories
By: Karen Russell
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
22. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
23. I Walk Between the Raindrops
By: T.C. Boyle
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully tol… read more
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- collections
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- audiobook
24. Homestead
By: Melinda Moustakis
3.53
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more
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- fiction
- unfinished
- audiobook
25. Emergency
By: Kathleen Alcott
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- audiobook
26. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
27. The Big Door Prize
By: M.O. Walsh
3.44
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
A mysterious machine upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is … read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"If you're going to marry a man, make sure you like the drunk version of him, too. You're marrying more than one person...That's what some couples don't realize. When you get married, you're marrying …"-M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize
28. You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
By: Mary South
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape th… read more
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- anthologies
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"No one will save her. Nothing is going to magically make it better. The woman has to figure out her life."-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
"I cradle Keith with a mole against my chest to turn him over, then I massage his butt. "You're special," I whisper in his ear, at a moment when I'm pretty sure no one is looking. "You're a special Ke…"-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
"The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly intelligent, not particularly kind. A Keith would never train to compete in professional sports or practice an instr…"-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
29. All the Names They Used for God
By: Anjali Sachdeva
4.04
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- audiobook
30. Life Among the Terranauts
By: Caitlin Horrocks
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “enthralling” ( New York Times Book Review ) and “beautiful” ( Washington Po… read more
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- unfinished
- collections
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- science fiction
- audiobook
31. Dispatches from the End of Ice
By: Beth Peterson
4.07
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Shortly after moving, for a few months, to a tiny village near Europe’s largest glacier, things in … read more
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