5 best-selling short stories books like The Lost Decade and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Lost Decade and other stories

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.63

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

These later short stories of Scott Fitzgerald all reflect the insincerities, greedy ambitions and b…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Lost Decade and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

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"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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3. The Whitsun Weddings

By: Philip Larkin

3.92

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoki… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"What will survive of us is love."

-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

"What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer "

-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

"Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road."

-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

"On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes."

-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

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4. Waiting for the Barbarians

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"

-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."

-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"

-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."

-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

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5. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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6. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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7. The Edwardians

By: Vita Sackville-West , Juliet Nicolson

3.80

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

At nineteen, Sebastian is a duke and heir to a vast country estate. A deep sense of tradition binds… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I wouldn’t commit murder for the sake of an allegory."

-Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians

"Only it won’t be an earthquake - not in England, England isn’t seismic - it will be a gradual crumbling."

-Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

8. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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9. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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10. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction

11. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more

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12. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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13. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

14. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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15. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

16. White Teeth

By: Zadie Smith

4.53

Format: 288 pages,

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more

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17. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

18. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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19. Why I Write

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more

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20. M Train

By: Patti Smith

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more

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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."

-Patti Smith, M Train

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21. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

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"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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22. Darling

By: India Knight

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

23. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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24. 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
Cover of Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3) by Deborah Levy

25. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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26. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
Cover of The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

27. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • classics
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Cover of The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion by Gwen Adshead

28. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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Cover of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela  Chen

29. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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30. Heatwave

By: Victor Jestin

3.16

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and bec… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Elle ne m'aime pas. Elle ne m'aime plus. J'ai mis l'éternité dans deux heures qui n'étaient rien pour elle, elle est partie laver son linge et elle est revenue."

-Victor Jestin, Heatwave

Cover of The Lost Decade and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

31. The Lost Decade and other stories

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.63

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

These later short stories of Scott Fitzgerald all reflect the insincerities, greedy ambitions and b… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

14 Best fiction books like The Lost Decade and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkin

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

3.93

Transform Your Habits

A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Anaïs Nin

3.71

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14 best-selling fiction books like Heatwave by Victor Jestin

Transform Your Habits

Days in the History of Silence

Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Shy

Max Porter

3.63

Transform Your Habits

W.

Tiemen Hiemstra

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Tosca

Maud Vanhauwaert

3.96

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