5 best-selling short stories books like The Labrador Fiasco by Margaret Atwood

Cover of The Labrador Fiasco by Margaret Atwood

The Labrador Fiasco

By: Margaret Atwood

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format a…

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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  • short stories
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

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3. The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

By: Denis Thériault

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

A beautifully tragic and thought-provoking tale that perfectly reflects the elegance and style of M… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

4. Z for Zachariah

By: Robert C. O'Brien

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust, by a Newbery Medalist. An… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Faith

By: Joanna Trollope

4.33

Format: 48 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. The Labrador Fiasco

By: Margaret Atwood

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format a… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
  • female authors
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7. Bear

By: Marian Engel

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada

8. The Comfort of Strangers

By: Ian McEwan

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more

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9. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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10. Royal

By: Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

La faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal est le dépotoir de l’humanité. Tu le sais : t’en es… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada

11. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By: Elizabeth Smart

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more

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12. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

By: Arundhati Roy

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more

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13. Harald, Claudia, and Their Son Duncan

By: Nadine Gordimer

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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14. Devotion

By: Patti Smith

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more

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15. Harrow

By: Joy Williams

3.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary … read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

Cover of The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1) by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

17. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.92

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more

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  • fiction
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18. L'éveil des érables

By: Marie-Christine Chartier

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

À 24 ans, Émilie termine son externat en médecine. Elle a fini avec d'excellentes notes et a été ac… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Mrs. Caliban

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more

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  • fiction
"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

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20. Le livre des sœurs

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.76

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Amélie Nothomb possède l’énigmatique et belle faculté de raconter des histoires tristes qui ne vous… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro

21. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

14 must-read fiction books like The Labrador Fiasco by Margaret Atwood

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The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Denis Thériault

3.94

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Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O'Brien

4.29

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Faith

Joanna Trollope

4.33

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12 must-read fiction books like The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

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The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

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