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Foster
Claire Keegan
4.30 average rating, · 191.4k ratings
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman
4.32 average rating, · 132.4k ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
4.18 average rating, · 209.6k ratings
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Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
4.18 average rating, · 149.8k ratings
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Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
4.13 average rating, · 113.2k ratings
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
4.14 average rating, · 97.7k ratings
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Table for Two
Amor Towles
4.19 average rating, · 74.9k ratings
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
4.38 average rating, · 41.3k ratings
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Cathedral
Raymond Carver
4.24 average rating, · 41.4k ratings
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
4.29 average rating, · 38.4k ratings
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Recitatif
Toni Morrison
4.29 average rating, · 34.2k ratings
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
4.10 average rating, · 54.2k ratings
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
4.13 average rating, · 44.1k ratings
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin
4.19 average rating, · 37.7k ratings
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The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
4.16 average rating, · 37.1k ratings
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
Raymond Carver
4.41 average rating, · 22.6k ratings
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No Two Persons
Erica Bauermeister
4.04 average rating, · 36.5k ratings
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz
4.08 average rating, · 30.5k ratings
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Drown
Junot Díaz
4.01 average rating, · 37.6k ratings
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders
4.21 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Revenge
Yōko Ogawa
4.01 average rating, · 32k ratings
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Reservoir Bitches
Dahlia de la Cerda
4.18 average rating, · 22.1k ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor
4.20 average rating, · 22k ratings
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
Anthony Marra
4.27 average rating, · 18.6k ratings
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