13 best-selling short stories books like The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told by Manohar Shetty

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The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told

By: Manohar Shetty

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told features some of the best short fiction to emerge from the pens…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told by Manohar Shetty , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Namesake

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more

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2. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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  • short stories
"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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3. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

By: Paul Torday

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What does it take to make us believe in the impossible? For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixtu… read more

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4. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.20

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more

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  • short stories
"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

5. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By: Olivia Laing

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more

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6. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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7. The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told

By: Arunava Sinha

3.50

Format: 519 pages,

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8. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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9. Independence

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more

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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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11. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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12. Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.96

Format: 173 pages, ebook

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a… read more

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  • short stories
"Yet, even so, Mieko and I shared our lives. But Meiko had an accident and fell into a vegetative state. Her eyes no longer saw; her ears no longer heard. My children grieved, but as much as I felt it…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)

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13. Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.91

Format: 220 pages, ebook

The latest novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following fou… read more

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  • short stories
"surviving alone is much the same as dying alone"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"I will remember this comforting warmth for the rest of my life"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"When you give a gift to someone who is striving to achieve their dreams, you have to give them the most cherished thing you have. Some days that person who is chasing their dreams will not be able to…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

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14. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more

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"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

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15. Club You To Death (ACP Bhavani Singh, #1)

By: Anuja Chauhan

3.60

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

When a hunky personal trainer is found asphyxiated to death under an overloaded barbell at the posh… read more

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16. The Woman Who Climbed Trees

By: Smriti Ravindra

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A young bride must leave her life in India behind when she moves to Nepal with her new husband and … read more

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17. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • short stories
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18. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more

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  • short stories
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19. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

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20. The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao

By: Lindsay Pereira

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'My story may end with sadness, but I want you to remember that it started with love. Mumbai has mo… read more

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21. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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22. Welcome to Paradise

By: Twinkle Khanna

3.59

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Rich narratives that explore the depth of loneliness, heartbreak and deception. Huma’s divided fami… read more

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  • short stories
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23. THE GREATEST ODIA STORIES EVER TOLD

By: Leelawati Mohapatra

3.79

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told showcases Odia’s greatest storytellers ranging from literary ma… read more

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  • short stories
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24. The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told

By: Ashutosh Potdar

3.67

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The twenty-eight stories in The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told represent some of the finest sho… read more

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  • short stories
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25. Zen

By: Shabnam Minwalla

4.33

Format: 635 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1935, Zainab Essanji wants to break out of her restricted life and be part of the independence m… read more

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26. The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told

By: Poonam Saxena

3.80

Format: 314 pages, None

The twenty-five stories in The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told represent the finest short fiction … read more

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  • short stories
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27. The Black Orphan

By: S. Hussain Zaidi

3.86

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

A bold and daring cop. A passionate human rights lawyer. And a deadly terror plot. It's love at … read more

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28. The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told

By: Muhammad Umar Memon

4.01

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the tw… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
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29. The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told

By: Manohar Shetty

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told features some of the best short fiction to emerge from the pens… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
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30. The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told

By: Mitra Phukan

4.07

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told spans more than a century of work by some of the finest wri… read more

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  • short stories
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31. Under the Bakul Tree

By: Mrinal Kalita

4.19

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ashim, the bright, cheerful class topper and the ‘jewel’ of Mahendra master, suddenly drops ou… read more

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19 must-read fiction books like Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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3.89

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