My Side of the Matter
By: Truman Capote
3.62
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
One of the great masters of lyrical melancholy, Truman Capote remains admired for both his fiction …
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1. How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
By: Neil Gaiman
4.05
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"The Marquis de Carabas did not trust people. It was bad for business and it could set an unfortunate precedent. He did not trust his friends or his occasional lovers, and he certainly never trusted h…"-Neil Gaiman, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
2. Self-Help
By: Lorrie Moore
4.13
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs —and a master of contemporary American… read more
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- fiction
- american
- short stories
"Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"You will forget whoever it was that said never trust a thought doesn't come while walking. But clutch at it. Apartments can shrink inward like drying ponds."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
3. The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
By: Kiera Cass
3.81
Format: 72 pages, ebook
Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a d… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"But underneath that, his laugh was childlike."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"I’d decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about and now...now I knew them."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"Still, the ghost of a smirk on his face was enough to paralyze me. I was fine with not seeing more."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
4. The Five-Forty-Eight
By: Meryl Streep , John Cheever , Ben Cheever , None
3.70
Format: 164 pages, Audio
Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and te… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
5. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
By: Art Spiegelman
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more
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"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
6. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
By: Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.99
Format: 481 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse wh… read more
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- classics
"There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up"-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
7. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
8. Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's
By: Marian Keyes
4.17
Format: 251 pages,
Marian Keyes spearheaded a new wave of contemporary women's fiction providing wickedly funny tales … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Seven Gothic Tales
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most sin… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
10. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
11. The Country of the Blind
By: H.G. Wells
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the A… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
12. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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- classics
- fiction
13. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
14. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
15. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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16. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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17. The Fifth Child
By: Doris Lessing
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more
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18. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
By: Mervyn Peake
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more
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19. The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6)
By: Kiera Cass
3.93
Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition
While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactl… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Once she makes a decision, DO NOT get in her way."-Kiera Cass, The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6)
"And there was too much love in my heart to leave room for regret."-Kiera Cass, The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6)
"He was control to all her chaos; she was levity to his seriousness."-Kiera Cass, The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6)
"Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself."-Kiera Cass, The Favorite (The Selection, #2.6)
20. The Aristocratic Adventurer
By: David Cannadine
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
David Cannadine is one of Britain's premier historians, essayists and broadcasters, whose books hav… read more
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21. Black Narcissus
By: Rumer Godden
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
In the days when it was the General's 'harem' palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes c… read more
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22. First Confession
By: Frank O'Connor
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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23. The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
By: Kiera Cass
3.69
Format: 64 pages, Unknown Binding
Before America Singer met Prince Maxon . . . Before she entered the Selection . . . She was in love… read more
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- fiction
"Let the world go to hell around you so long as you can get to her"-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"What would I fight for in this world if I wasn’t fighting for her?"-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"I want her to stay. It seems like everyone leaves when I need them to stay."-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady."-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
24. Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories
By: Henry James , Shirley Jackson , Joyce Carol Oates , Ambrose Bierce , Margaret Atwood , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Langston Hughes , James Baldwin , Katherine Mansfield , Raymond Carver , John Cheever , Alice Munro , Frank O'Connor , Tillie Olsen , Amy Tan , John Updike , Alice Walker , Eudora Welty , T. Coraghessan Boyle , Ann Petry , Louise Erdrich , Truman Capote , Shirley Ann Grau , V.S. Naipaul , Irwin Shaw , Dorothy Parker , Rosellen Brown , Grace Paley , Ralph Ellison , John O'Hara , Lorrie Moore , Jayne Anne Phillips , Sarah Orne Jewett , Toni Cade Bambara , Danny Santiago , Francisco Jiménez , David Wong Louie , James Moffett , Kenneth R. McElheny , Merle Hodge , Gina Berriault , Toshio Mori , None , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents h… read more
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25. Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
By: A. Helwa
4.51
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Are you longing to experience a more intimate and loving relationship with the Divine? Secrets … read more
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"The word “Allah"-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"In Arabic, the word fitna, meaning “hardship,"-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"To every cry of, 'Oh God'. He answers a hundred times, 'I am here'."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"We are all born with spiritual wings, Islam simply reminds us how to fly."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
26. All Summer in a Day
By: Ray Bradbury
4.00
Format: 4 pages, ebook
Margot is a nine-year-old girl whose family moved from Earth to Venus when she was four. She rememb… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"I think the sun is a flower. That blooms for just one hour."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days..."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"Sabía que creían recordar un calor, un ardor en las mejillas, en el cuerpo, en los brazos y las piernas, en las manos temblorosas. Pero luego despertaban siempre al tamborileo trepidante, al intermin…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
27. The Maid (The Selection, #3.3)
By: Kiera Cass
3.61
Format: 13 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a bonus scene from The One, last book of the The Selection Trilogy. Lucy's point of view… read more
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- fiction
28. The Snobs
By: Muriel Spark
3.64
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
These five stories amply display Muriel Spark's extraordinary talent; her cool, biting humour and u… read more
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- fiction
29. The Stone Boy
By: Gina Berriault
3.97
Format: None pages, None
Tells the story of nine-year-old Arnold who accidentally and fatally shoots his older brother. When… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
30. The Queen in Hell Close
By: Sue Townsend
3.56
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Whether in the guise of a 13 3/4-year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to liv… read more
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- fiction
31. My Side of the Matter
By: Truman Capote
3.62
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
One of the great masters of lyrical melancholy, Truman Capote remains admired for both his fiction … read more
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- american
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