8 must-read short stories books like Gocce di Sicilia by Andrea Camilleri

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Gocce di Sicilia

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.49

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Sette brevi scritti di Andrea Camilleri che rievocano episodi e personaggi di Sicilia, fra pura inv…

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Cover of El matrimonio de los peces rojos by Guadalupe Nettel

1. El matrimonio de los peces rojos

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

En estas cinco narraciones intensas y de atmósfera delicada, Guadalupe Nettel nos propone un cruce … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Concluí que con las emociones ocurre algo semejante: muy distintos tipos de sentimientos (a menudo simbióticos) se definen con la palabra «amor». Los enamoramientos muchas veces nacen también de form…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, El matrimonio de los peces rojos

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2. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • short stories
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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4. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar

3.97

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more

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  • fiction
"All things are forgotten in the end"

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

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5. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Agatha Christie Book Club (Agatha Christie Book Club #1) by C.A. Larmer

6. The Agatha Christie Book Club (Agatha Christie Book Club #1)

By: C.A. Larmer

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

A contemporary cozy mystery for those looking for fun and adventure at their next book club! When A… read more

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  • fiction
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7. March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1)

By: Philip Kerr

3.88

Format: None pages,

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator … read more

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  • fiction
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8. Botchan

By: Natsume Sōseki , Joel Cohn

3.64

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about … read more

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  • fiction
"الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

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9. On Chesil Beach

By: Ian McEwan

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more

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  • fiction

10. The Lady In The Van

By: Alan Bennett

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a … read more

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11. Come le mosche d'autunno

By: Irène Némirovsky , Graziella Cillario

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Paperback

E lei, Tat'jana Ivanovna, la vecchia nutrice, a preparare i bagagli di Jurij e di Kirill, i ragazzi… read more

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12. El Ruletista

By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Marian Ochoa de Eribe

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Esta pieza, tan breve como intensa, narra la improbable historia de un hombre al que nunca le ha so… read more

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13. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #15)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Peng… read more

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14. Six Four

By: Hideo Yokoyama , Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Six Four. The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no lis… read more

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15. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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16. Premier sang

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.81

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

« Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la rage de survivre. » read more

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  • fiction
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17. Tutto chiede salvezza

By: Daniele Mencarelli

4.17

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Ha vent'anni Daniele quando, in seguito a una violenta esplosione di rabbia, viene sottoposto a un … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I think I might be a bit mentally disabled."

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

"Le mie sono le farneticazioni di un maestro di scuola elementare messo a riposo. Una cosa però tienila sempre a mente. Curati. Chiedi aiuto quando serve. Ma lascia il tuo sguardo libero, non farti ra…"

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

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18. Dare la vita

By: Michela Murgia

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Si può essere madri di figlie e figli che si scelgono, e che a loro volta ci hanno scelte? Si può c… read more

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"Dimmi che ami quello che di me cambia di continuo, e io potrò continuare a darti quello che di me davvero non cambia: la voglia di sceglierti ogni giorno in modo differente, come diversa sono io ogni…"

-Michela Murgia, Dare la vita

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19. Otra vida por vivir

By: Theodor Kallifatides

3.88

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

Nadie debería escribir después de los setenta y cinco años'', había dicho un amigo. A los setenta y… read more

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"Voltaire hablaba del derecho de los ciudadanos a expresar su opinión y a hacer la crítica del poder. A eso se le llama libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, la manera en que le hables a tu vecino no en…"

-Theodor Kallifatides, Otra vida por vivir

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20. Las gratitudes

By: Delphine de Vigan

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, pro… read more

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  • fiction
"A veces conviene aceptar el vacío que deja la pérdida. Renunciar a la distracción. Aceptar que ya no hay nada que decir. Permanecer sentado, a su vera. Cogiéndola de la mano."

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

"Tras sus miradas borrosas, sus gestos inseguros, sus cuerpos encorvados o doblados por la mitad, busco al muchacho o a la muchacha que fueron como quien pretende descubrir el esbozo original de un di…"

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

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21. Soif

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.59

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

« Pour éprouver la soif, il faut être vivant. On n’apprend des vérités si fortes qu’en ayant soif, … read more

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  • fiction
"L’amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatur…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

"In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

"Ho scelto? Così sembrerebbe. Come ho potuto scegliere di essere me? Per la ragione che presiede la stragrande maggioranza delle scelte: per incoscienza. Se fossimo consapevoli, sceglieremmo di non vi…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

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22. La desconocida

By: Rosa Montero

3.34

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

EL REGRESO DE ROSA MONTERO A LA NOVELA NEGRA, JUNTO AL GANADOR DEL PREMIO QUAIS DU POLAR OLIVIER TR… read more

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23. La familia

By: Sara Mesa

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

La contundente radiografía de una familia, de sus heridas latentes, fragilidades, contradicciones y… read more

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  • fiction
"Cansa que siempre haga eso, pero no lo puede evitar, ella es así, piensa como una cirujana, con la frialdad de una cirujana."

-Sara Mesa, La familia

"La contempla con lo que a ella le parece una sospecha impropia, ese tipo de actitud suspicaz de aquellos de quienes se ríen todo el tiempo y ya no se fían de nadie"

-Sara Mesa, La familia

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24. Les Aérostats

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.65

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

"La jeunesse est un talent, il faut des années pour l'acquérir." Dans ce nouveau livre, la romanci… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro by Liliana Colanzi

25. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro

By: Liliana Colanzi

3.69

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Slaget om Troja by Theodor Kallifatides

26. Slaget om Troja

By: Theodor Kallifatides

3.46

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

När bomberna faller över den grekiska byn under andra världskriget tar lärarinnan med sig skolbarne… read more

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  • fiction
"Is the need to love greater than the need to hate?"

-Theodor Kallifatides, Slaget om Troja

"The compulsion to defend ourselves is always stronger than the desire to conquer."

-Theodor Kallifatides, Slaget om Troja

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27. Almudena

By: Aroa Moreno Durán

4.53

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

La primera biografía ilustrada de Almudena un hermoso homenaje de Aroa Moreno Durán y Ana Jarén a … read more

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28. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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29. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Peces abisales

By: Rosa Ribas

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

La infancia en una ciudad de las afueras de Barcelona, la madurez en una ciudad alemana: un emocion… read more

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31. Gocce di Sicilia

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.49

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Sette brevi scritti di Andrea Camilleri che rievocano episodi e personaggi di Sicilia, fra pura inv… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like Gocce di Sicilia by Andrea Camilleri

Transform Your Habits

El matrimonio de los peces rojos

Guadalupe Nettel

4.06

Transform Your Habits

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

Agatha Christie

3.98

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15 must-read fiction books like Premier sang by Amélie Nothomb

Transform Your Habits

Underground Time

Delphine de Vigan

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

Irene Solà

3.91

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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