23 Top short stories books like Communist by Richard Ford

Communist

By: Richard Ford

3.12

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Limited to 240 numbered copies, this being one of 180 bound thus and signed by the author.Title pag…

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Cover of The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth

1. The Conversion of the Jews

By: Philip Roth

3.99

Format: 40 pages, Library Binding

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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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Sonny's Blues

By: James Baldwin

4.30

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

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3. The School

By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky

3.79

Format: 128 pages,

When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

4. Harmony of the World: Stories

By: Charles Baxter

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. What You Pawn I Will Redeem

By: Sherman Alexie

3.42

Format: None pages,

A homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty year… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Haircut

By: Ring Lardner

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

A barber regales a customer with stories about some of the characters in his small town. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

7. Babylon Revisited

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more

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8. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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9. The Things They Carried

By: Tim O'Brien

4.10

Format: None pages,

They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more

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10. The Enormous Radio

By: John Cheever

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

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11. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more

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12. Rule of the Bone

By: Russell Banks

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks's quintessential novel … read more

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13. My Old Man

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.16

Format: 200 pages, ebook

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14. That will be Fine

By: William Faulkner

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • short stories
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15. Friends

By: Grace Paley

3.21

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

16. The Whole World Knows

By: Eudora Welty

2.57

Format: 18 pages, None

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  • short stories
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17. The Cracked Looking-Glass

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.04

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Brothers

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.05

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. Helping

By: Robert Stone

3.70

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Limited edition of this short story, one of only 100 copies signed by Stone, hand set in Centaur ty… read more

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  • short stories
"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."

-Robert Stone, Helping

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20. The Gay Old Dog

By: Edna Ferber

3.70

Format: 20 pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

21. By The River

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.30

Format: 17 pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

22. The Conventional Wisdom

By: Stanley Elkin

3.54

Format: 24 pages, None

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  • short stories

23. Lawns

By: Mona Simpson

4.16

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. Brownies

By: Z.Z. Packer

3.82

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

25. Diem Perdidi

By: Julie Otsuka

4.17

Format: 10 pages, None

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  • short stories
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26. The Third and Final Continent

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 19 pages, None

"I left India in 1964 with a certificate in commerce and the equivalent, in those days, of ten doll… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. The Girl on the Plane

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.42

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

28. Xuela

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.00

Format: 18 pages, None

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  • short stories

29. The Rest of Her Life

By: Steve Yarbrough

3.59

Format: 23 pages, ebook

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30. Displacement

By: David Wong Louie

3.40

Format: 15 pages, None

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  • short stories

31. Communist

By: Richard Ford

3.12

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Limited to 240 numbered copies, this being one of 180 bound thus and signed by the author.Title pag… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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