Tam-O'-Shanter
By: Donna Tartt
3.78
Format: 20 pages, None
In this short story by Donna Tartt, an ageing actor confronts the passage of time as he makes a vis…
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1. Fox 8
By: George Saunders
4.12
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."-George Saunders, Fox 8
"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
2. Novel in Nine Letters
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.18
Format: 34 pages,
Перед нами – «веселый» Достоевский, обнаруживающий талант сатирика и юмориста, который позднее лишь… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
3. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
4. Double Date (Fear Street, #23)
By: R.L. Stine
4.57
Format: None pages,
No girl in her right mind would say no to a date with Bobby Newkirk. Not with those great looks, th… read more
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- fiction
5. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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- fiction
6. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
7. The Inspector General
By: Nikolai Gogol , None , None
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered the high point of Gogol's writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, Th… read more
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- fiction
8. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
9. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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- fiction
10. Frogs
By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more
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- fiction
11. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
12. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
13. Herbert West: Reanimator
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It w… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
14. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
15. Olalla
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more
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16. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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17. After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.1)
By: Cassandra Clare
4.04
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Short Story about Tessa, Jem and what happened after that meeting at Blackfriar's Bridge at the Epi… read more
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18. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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19. The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more
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20. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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21. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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22. Bunny
By: Mona Awad
3.50
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"-Mona Awad, Bunny
23. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
24. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
25. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
By: Lana Del Rey
3.98
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more
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"Live your life like no one’s listening"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
26. Birthday Girl
By: Haruki Murakami
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put …"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really…"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
27. Create Dangerously
By: Albert Camus
3.84
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more
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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
28. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
29. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
30. Film for Her
By: Orion Carloto
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more
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- short stories
"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."-Orion Carloto, Film for Her
31. Tam-O'-Shanter
By: Donna Tartt
3.78
Format: 20 pages, None
In this short story by Donna Tartt, an ageing actor confronts the passage of time as he makes a vis… read more
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