7 must-read short stories books like The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza

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The Taiga Syndrome

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.48

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou…

"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be a space that facilitates the circulation of these bodies, so that they can be appraised, touched, negotiated. And it must have an area in which to complete---once agreed upon, once contracted---sexual intercourse. The noise of people or glasses or music always helps. Smoke. Something unspeakable in the air."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or taming language is not important.... Sometimes failures push us to open the door of a run-down old house, to clean the dust off the unused furniture and find a drawer where an old typewriter hides. Failures force us to reflect, and reflection, with any luck, may lead us to a coastal city and a pile of blank pages."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

If you liked the short stories plot in The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Hav

By: Jan Morris

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and rec… read more

Similar categories in Jan Morris's Hav book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • novels
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2. Faces in the Crowd

By: Valeria Luiselli , Christina MacSweeney

3.59

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. I… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The boy wakes me up: do you know where mosquitoes come from, Mama?"

-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

"That’s the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It’s all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity."

-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

"El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza…"

-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

"Dejar una vida. Dinamitar todo. No, no todo: dinamitar el metro cuadrado que uno ocupaba entre la gente. Más bien: dejar sillas vacías en las mesas que se compartían con las amistades, no a modo de m…"

-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

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3. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more

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  • novella
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Were the “pampas,"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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4. Such Small Hands

By: Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that ca… read more

Similar categories in Edmund White's Such Small Hands book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

6. Papeles falsos

By: Valeria Luiselli

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Papeles falsos, primer libro de Valeria Luiselli, esta compuesto por una serie de ensayos narrativo… read more

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7. Antígona González

By: Sara Uribe

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"Esta es la busqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en Mexico… read more

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8. The Apple in the Dark

By: Clarice Lispector

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more

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9. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy
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10. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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11. The Taiga Syndrome

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.48

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • mystery
"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

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12. Voyager

By: Nona Fernández

4.22

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

La memoria de las estrellas. La memoria de una madre. Y la de su hija. La memoria de un pueblo. Cóm… read more

Similar categories in Nona Fernández's Voyager book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • short stories
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13. The Forgery

By: Ave Barrera

3.91

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño.…"

-Ave Barrera, The Forgery

"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidie…"

-Ave Barrera, The Forgery

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14. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • mystery
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15. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. La reina de espadas

By: Jazmina Barrera

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras leo, tengo la sensación que me da la literatura que más me gusta: la de estar mirando a tr… read more

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17. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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18. Declaración de las canciones oscuras

By: Luis Felipe Fabre

4.17

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

En agosto de 1592 arriban al monasterio de Úbeda un alguacil y sus dos ayudantes, con la secreta en… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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19. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • short stories
  • contemporary
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20. Desde los zulos

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mezclando la autoficción, la crónica y el pensamiento feminista, en Desde los zulos Dahlia de la Ce… read more

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"Un cuarto propio también son los privilegios que ayudan a que una mujer escriba. Una jornada laboral de menos de ocho horas es un cuarto propio. Dinero y tiempo para ir a un café a escribir es un cua…"

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Desde los zulos

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21. Furia

By: Clyo Mendoza

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

En un desierto salpicado de poblados asolados por la guerra, dos desertores de bandos opuestos desc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Il mercante finì il racconto con una battuta che non c'entrava nulla. Ridendo tra sé disse: è da pazzi credere che il Diavolo vesta sempre in modo elegante."

-Clyo Mendoza, Furia

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22. The Rooftop

By: Fernanda Trías

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's The Rooftop book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
Cover of La comemadre by Roque Larraquy

23. La comemadre

By: Roque Larraquy

3.67

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La comemadre ofrece dos relatos que hunden sus raíces en la misma materia y abrevan en las mismas o… read more

Similar categories in Roque Larraquy's La comemadre book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
"Papini's speech accelerates as he walks toward the morgue, leaving a trail of lemon in his wake. 'It's the so-called qualitative leap, Quintana. At night we come up with daring plans that would chang…"

-Roque Larraquy, La comemadre

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24. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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25. Landscapes

By: Christine Lai

3.78

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Faraway the Southern Sky

By: Joseph Andras

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underg… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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27. A Fig For All The Devils

By: C.S. Fritz

3.92

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

IBPA's Gold Award Winner for Best in Horror 2021! An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished So… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. The Governesses

By: Anne Serre

3.34

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses respons… read more

Similar categories in Anne Serre's The Governesses book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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29. Kitchen Curse

By: Eka Kurniawan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist's first book of stories Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
Cover of The Applicant by Nazli Koca

30. The Applicant

By: Nazli Koca

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom… read more

Similar categories in Nazli Koca's The Applicant book and Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

31. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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3.88

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4.03

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3.24

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