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What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt
4.10 average rating, · 23.1k ratings
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Birds of America: Stories
Lorrie Moore
4.09 average rating, · 16.9k ratings
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The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf
4.11 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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The Easter Parade
Richard Yates
4.03 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Raymond Carver
4.10 average rating, · 7.2k ratings
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Battleborn
Claire Vaye Watkins
4.11 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Like Life: Stories
Lorrie Moore
4.06 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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The Sarah Book
Scott McClanahan
4.24 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Reasons to Live
Amy Hempel
4.13 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor
4.04 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
Raymond Carver
4.04 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Northline
Willy Vlautin
4.00 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
Charles Bukowski
4.16 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Heaven of Animals
David James Poissant
4.21 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Master of Reality
John Darnielle
4.06 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
Joy Williams
4.13 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable
Louise Glück
4.04 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The Collected Stories
Lorrie Moore
4.38 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Elegy
Larry Levis
4.33 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Last Novel
David Markson
4.15 average rating, · 1k ratings
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The Man Suit
Zachary Schomburg
4.22 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Cruising Paradise
Sam Shepard
4.03 average rating, · 977 ratings
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Lives of the Saints
Nancy Lemann
4.17 average rating, · 913 ratings
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The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds
4.04 average rating, · 924 ratings
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