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Chess Story
Stefan Zweig
4.26 average rating, · 186.8k ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.48 average rating, · 82.4k ratings
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
4.39 average rating, · 82.2k ratings
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06 average rating, · 413.3k ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
4.18 average rating, · 209.6k ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
4.14 average rating, · 246.7k ratings
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The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
4.29 average rating, · 108.8k ratings
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Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
4.18 average rating, · 149.8k ratings
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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
4.36 average rating, · 70.5k ratings
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
4.14 average rating, · 97.7k ratings
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The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
4.52 average rating, · 31.3k ratings
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The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
4.32 average rating, · 51.2k ratings
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
4.38 average rating, · 41.3k ratings
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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
4.11 average rating, · 102.5k ratings
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
4.09 average rating, · 100.7k ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges
4.44 average rating, · 34.3k ratings
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
4.53 average rating, · 26.8k ratings
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Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
4.56 average rating, · 26.1k ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.49 average rating, · 30.3k ratings
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
4.17 average rating, · 75.1k ratings
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
4.14 average rating, · 73.3k ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
4.18 average rating, · 55.3k ratings
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.13 average rating, · 65.5k ratings
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
4.37 average rating, · 32.3k ratings
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