8 must-read short stories books like Cut by Catherine Lacey

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Cut

By: Catherine Lacey

4.11

Format: None pages, None

The New Yorker's free online fiction: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/cut

"if you’re raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. you will find him even when he is not there. and if one day you find that there is no angry man in your house— well, you will go find one and invite him in!"

-Catherine Lacey, Cut

If you liked the short stories plot in Cut by Catherine Lacey , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

1. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

2. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more

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3. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

4. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison

5.00

Format: 398 pages, ebook

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Wife of Bath

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. The Plague of Doves

By: Louise Erdrich

4.64

Format: None pages,

The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, gene… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson

7. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Homunculus 1

By: Hideo Yamamoto

3.92

Format: None pages,

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  • fiction

9. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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10. Rhinocéros

By: Eugène Ionesco , None

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more

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11. A Girl on the Shore

By: Inio Asano

3.61

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Longing for Something Bigger From the Eisner Award-nominated Inio Asano, creator of Solanin and … read more

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  • fiction
"Boys... I hope you all just die."

-Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore

"I like your dick better than you."

-Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore

"Sex with love is an illusion, y'know!!"

-Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore

"Isobe... I think your cumming face is the cutest."

-Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore

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12. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • fiction
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13. 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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14. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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15. Mimi's Tales of Terror

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Experience real-life chills as Junji Ito brings these “true” horror series to life! University s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1) by Masaaki Nakayama

16. 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

...ha...ir......hand hand and.. ..an..d......fire..... ....be...hin...d......blood......u... ...sh.… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat

17. Everything the Light Touches

By: Janice Pariat

3.75

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Paper Menagerie

By: Ken Liu

4.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"

-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

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19. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

By: Wallace Stevens

3.70

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a double accordian style book built into a clam shell … read more

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20. 後遺症ラジオ 3 (PTSD Radio, #3)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

……ゔ…あ゙…がッ…みッ………っち…断ちッ……感じ………きざ…む………カサ…カサカサ……覗ク………聞こェッ!!…………に睨……ム……ヴェ………べちゃっ………みみ見……け…ぁ………あ゙え゙え゙え゙イ… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Cut by Catherine Lacey

21. Cut

By: Catherine Lacey

4.11

Format: None pages, None

The New Yorker's free online fiction: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/cut read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"if you’re raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. you will find him even when he is not there. and if one day you find that there is no angry man in y…"

-Catherine Lacey, Cut

16 best-selling fiction books like Cut by Catherine Lacey

Transform Your Habits

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

5.00

Transform Your Habits

The Wife of Bath

Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

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Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

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If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

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