5 Top short stories books like 2000ft Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra

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2000ft Above Worry Level

By: Eamonn Marra

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else 2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the …

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1. Falling Awake

By: Alice Oswald

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the na… read more

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  • fiction
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2. The Luminaries

By: Eleanor Catton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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4. Hera Lindsay Bird

By: Hera Lindsay Bird

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more

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  • adult

5. The Bone People

By: Keri Hulme

3.51

Format: None pages,

In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estran… read more

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6. Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more

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7. 10:04

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more

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8. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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9. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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10. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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11. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • fiction
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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12. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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13. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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14. A Passage North

By: Anuk Arudpragasam

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more

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  • fiction
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

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15. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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16. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Loop Tracks

By: Sue Orr

4.16

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Kokomo

By: Victoria Hannan

3.55

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more

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  • fiction
"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."

-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo

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20. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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21. She's a Killer

By: Kirsten McDougall

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by the arrival of pr… read more

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  • fiction
"I’m a fan of unhappy endings. They’re more honest."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"The internet made you feel like something might happen."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"In times of crisis people look for guidance to great artists."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"I was capable of astral travel while looking like I was entirely present."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

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22. Eddy, Eddy

By: Kate De Goldi

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddy, Eddy is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your … read more

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  • fiction
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23. Tauhou

By: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I a…"

-Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou

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24. Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

4.45

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The immersive, inspiring and long-awaited memoir by legendary activist and scholar Ngahuia Te Aweko… read more

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25. Nothing to See

By: Pip Adam

3.85

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their … read more

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  • fiction
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26. Bug Week

By: Airini Beautrais

3.90

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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27. All Who Live On Islands

By: Rose Lu

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an… read more

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28. Can You Tolerate This?

By: Ashleigh Young

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappoin… read more

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  • short stories
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29. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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30. 2000ft Above Worry Level

By: Eamonn Marra

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else 2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the … read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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31. How to be a Bad Muslim

By: Mohamed Hassan

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blen… read more

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Alice Oswald

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