6 best-selling short stories books like Now You Know It All (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) by Joanna Pearson

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Now You Know It All (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)

By: Joanna Pearson

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers o…

If you liked the short stories plot in Now You Know It All (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) by Joanna Pearson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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2. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

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  • fiction
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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3. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

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4. The Paleontologist

By: Luke Dumas

3.53

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is f… read more

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  • fiction
"He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now."

-Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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5. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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  • fiction
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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6. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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7. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

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  • fiction
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8. How to Be Eaten

By: Maria Adelmann

3.60

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more

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  • fiction
"But something changes after tragedy,"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen."

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Maybe just don't leave the house at all", Gretel pipes in. "Maybe stay home". "But isn't that where accidents happen?" says Ashlee. "So lock all of the doors", says Ruby. "Doesn't always help", says …"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

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9. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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10. Tomboyland: Essays

By: Melissa Faliveno

3.98

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and de… read more

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  • short stories
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11. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

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14. My Monticello

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth."

-Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

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15. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

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18. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • fiction
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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19. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. The Blue Maiden

By: Anna Noyes

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Indie Next Pick and New York Times Editor’s Choice Goodnight, Beautiful Women co… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Now You Know It All (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)

By: Joanna Pearson

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

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Elizabeth Berg

4.11

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The Paleontologist

Luke Dumas

3.53

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All-Night Pharmacy

Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Table for Two

Amor Towles

4.26

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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Elizabeth Berg

4.11

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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

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