7 must-read short stories books like FUMES by William Dozier

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FUMES

By: William Dozier

3.30

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlie Whitler--sober for the first time in his adult life--returns to Durham County, North Caroli…

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1. The People in the Trees

By: Hanya Yanagihara

3.73

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more

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  • fiction
"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

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2. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade

3.85

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with… read more

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3. Lunar Park

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Sunset Limited

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Old Man and the Sea

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more

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  • fiction
"My big fish must be somewhere."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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7. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. Swan Song

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more

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  • fiction
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9. East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

4.42

Format: 601 pages, Paperback

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more

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  • fiction
"All great and precious things are lonely."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A man without words is a man without thought."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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10. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • fiction
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

11. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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12. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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13. Bright Lights, Big City

By: Jay McInerney

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more

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  • fiction
"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

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14. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

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  • fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

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15. In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

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16. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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  • fiction
"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

17. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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18. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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19. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

20. Outer Dark

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more

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21. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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  • fiction
"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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22. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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23. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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24. A Story of Yesterday

By: Sergio Cobo

4.57

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

A Story of Yesterday is a concise and straight punch to the jaw of life. Under a sky of different … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Love is a coincidence that is never permanent,"

-Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

"The night was when all the failures were remembered longer."

-Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

"Every day that passed, the young woman thought more and understood less"

-Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

"The girl's cigarette released this shocking pink smoke reserved for the feminine genre."

-Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

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25. Rotten Tommy

By: David Sodergren

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

“Keep the door locked night and day…”It’s been forty years since Becky Sharp’s mother vanished with… read more

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  • fiction
"The enormous hand closed over his penis and testicles, squashing them in a vice-like grip. The man rose to his full stature and dragged John's limp body towards the staircase by his cock & balls. The…"

-David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

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26. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

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27. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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28. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. FUMES

By: William Dozier

3.30

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlie Whitler--sober for the first time in his adult life--returns to Durham County, North Caroli… read more

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  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

Transform Your Habits

The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

3.84

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16 Best fiction books like The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Richard Howard , Dom Marcos Barbosa , None

4.33

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

4.20

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J.D. Salinger

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