18 Top fiction books like Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai (Voices from Vietnam) by Hồ Anh Thái

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Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai (Voices from Vietnam)

By: Hồ Anh Thái

3.68

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most im…

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Cover of Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg, Michail Bulgakov

1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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3. By the Sea

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, Stuart Gilbert, Lionel Abel

4. No Exit and Three Other Plays

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Stuart Gilbert , Lionel Abel

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays … read more

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  • fiction
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5. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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6. Arrowsmith

By: E.L. Doctorow , Sinclair Lewis

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Marti… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

7. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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8. Bước Đường Cùng

By: Nguyễn Công Hoan

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Buoc duong cung gan lien voi so phan cua anh Pha, mot nguoi nong dan voi nhung kho khan chong chat. read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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9. A House for Mr Biswas

By: V.S. Naipaul

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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10. Sweet Bean Paste

By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
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11. The Vagrants

By: Yiyun Li

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is se… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
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12. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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13. Quicksand

By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more

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14. Chinatown

By: Thuận

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day la lan thu hai Chinatown duoc xuat ban tai Viet Nam. Cuon tieu thuyet vua mang nang nuoi tiec q… read more

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15. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

By: David Sedaris

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more

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16. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

By: Umberto Eco , Geoffrey Brock

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remembe… read more

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17. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

By: Bảo Ninh , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam W… read more

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18. Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more

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19. My Name Is Asher Lev

By: Chaim Potok

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more

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20. Paradise

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more

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21. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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22. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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23. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

24. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more

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25. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

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  • fiction
"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

26. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • asian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Tuổi 20 Yêu Dấu

By: Nguyễn Huy Thiệp

3.42

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

“Chẳng ai hiểu cóc khô gì! Tôi muốn gào toáng lên như vậy. Thời của tôi đang sống là thời chó má. T… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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28. 'Twixt Land and Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in th… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Cluster

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

With unsettling beauty and a quiet magic, award-winning poet Souvankham Thammavongsa's Cluster will… read more

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30. Sóng Ngầm

By: Linda Lê

3.71

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Bốn nhân vật, mỗi người một giọng kể, mỗi người một tâm tư. Họ bị ràng buộc với nhau bởi một câu ch… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Behind the Red Mist: Short Fiction by Ho Anh Thai (Voices from Vietnam)

By: Hồ Anh Thái

3.68

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Behind the Red Mist gives us for the first time in English a wide range of stories from the most im… read more

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  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • asian literature

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Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

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4.35

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E.L. Doctorow , Sinclair Lewis

3.63

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Kahlil Gibran

4.01

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3.91

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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