9 Top short stories books like Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

By: Wells Tower

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter b…

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1. Oblivion: Stories

By: David Foster Wallace

4.07

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

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2. Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

3.98

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

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3. The Pale King

By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Mezzanine

By: Nicholson Baker

4.35

Format: None pages,

Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Girl with Curious Hair

By: David Foster Wallace

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Gentleman Overboard

By: Herbert Clyde Lewis

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american
  • fiction
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8. The Barracks Thief

By: Tobias Wolff

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Barracks Thiefis the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Br… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
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9. Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping Newsa… read more

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  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

10. Look at the Harlequins!

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Erroll McDonald

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Focusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the… read more

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  • literature
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11. The Quick and the Dead

By: Joy Williams

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is… read more

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  • american
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12. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

By: Wells Tower

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century

13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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14. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

By: George Saunders

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more

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15. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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16. The Stories of John Cheever

By: John Cheever

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generatio… read more

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17. The Breast

By: Philip Roth

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has bee… read more

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18. A Box of Matches

By: Nicholson Baker

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Eve… read more

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19. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more

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20. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more

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21. Ablutions

By: Patrick deWitt

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of hi… read more

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22. Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more

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23. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

By: Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Animalia

By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they deve… read more

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  • literature
  • 21st century
  • literary fiction
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25. Mouthful of Birds

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Tredje, og siste, roman om Bjørn Hansen

By: Dag Solstad

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bjørn Hansen, 77 år, en olding nærmest, bor alene i en ettroms leilighet på Grønland. Nyheter inter… read more

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27. Ciała

By: Annie Ernaux

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more

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28. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

By: Jane Alison

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more

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  • literature
"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"

-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

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29. Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed

By: Joel Golby

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joe… read more

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30. Moja żona nie tańczy. Opowiadania wybrane

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.17

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Tove Ditlevsen jest zjawiskiem nie tylko w literaturze duńskiej, ale i światowej. Wychowana w rodzi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

4.07

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3.98

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The Pale King

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3.98

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3.79

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William T. Vollmann

3.97

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3.62

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Michael Bible

3.60

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