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10 best books like Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction (Elissa Schappell): Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, This Is Not Your City, Death Is Not an Option, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Birds of Paradise, Stone Arabia, Ladies and Gentlemen, Girl Trouble, Safe as Houses

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
AuthorDanielle Evans
ISBN1594487693
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
AuthorMegan Mayhew Bergman
ISBN1451643357
A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.

From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from...
This Is Not Your City
AuthorCaitlin Horrocks
ISBN1932511911
Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in...
Death Is Not an Option
AuthorSuzanne Rivecca
ISBN0393072568
Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
AuthorAmy Bloom
ISBN1400063574
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

Propelled by Bloom's dazzling...
Birds of Paradise
AuthorDiana Abu-Jaber
"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table." —Ron Charles, Washington Post

At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of...
Stone Arabia
AuthorDana Spiotta
ISBN1451617968
Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta’s moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.

In the sibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know...
Ladies and Gentlemen
AuthorAdam Ross
ISBN0307270718
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.

A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes...
Girl Trouble
AuthorHolly Goddard Jones
ISBN0061776300
In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.

A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely woman reflects on her failed marriage...
Safe as Houses
AuthorMarie-Helene Bertino
ISBN1609381149
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout...
The Isle of Youth: Stories
AuthorLaura van den Berg
ISBN0374177236
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience,...
Other People We Married
AuthorEmma Straub
ISBN0982939213
In this vibrant debut collection, Emma Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with hilarity, vulnerability, and quietly dazzling insight.

In Some People Must Really Fall In Love, an assistant professor...
Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
AuthorAryn Kyle
ISBN1416594809
ARYN KYLE, whose award-winning novel The God of Animals was hailed as "reason for readers to rejoice" (USA Today), turns her gift for storytelling to the lives of girls and women in this spectacular collection. These eleven stories showcase Kyle’s keen eye for character, her humor, and her uncanny...
Alone With You
AuthorMarisa Silver
ISBN1416590293
Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.

Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a...
Damage Control: Stories
AuthorAmber Dermont
ISBN0312642814
A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea

Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In “Lyndon,” a daughter visits presidential landmarks...
The Cabal and Other Stories
AuthorEllen Gilchrist
ISBN0316169226
The collection was good in total, the stories appear to put the backstory in play with The Cabal. I felt somewhat let down, with The Cabal, it seemed like everyone in the story was so concerned with the Psychiatrist who had all the vices on everyone. I felt it was perfect for the breakdown of the Psychiatrist...
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
AuthorEthan Rutherford
ISBN0062203835
Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford's The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.

Worried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the world's worst summer camp leads his...
Because They Wanted To
AuthorMary Gaitskill
ISBN0684841444
The first 40-50 pages of Mary Gaitskill's writing that I read was a lot of fun - I was nodding along and "oh my god, totally" -ing with her descriptions of uncertain people in uncertain situations. So then I went on a Mary Gaitskill binge - I read everything she wrote, and realized that I was re-reading those...
Swim Back to Me
AuthorAnn Packer
ISBN0307877922
From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a...
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
AuthorRobin Black
ISBN1400068576
Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all.

Written with maturity and insight, and in beautiful,...
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
AuthorThe Paris Review
ISBN1250005981
Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of The Paris...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0679745130
it's funny to be reading a book of stories and turn the page and come upon "cathedral." always seems like something that came from on high and has been around since the dawn of man or something. hard to believe carver was ever anyone's contemporary. but i guess that's the story!

anyway! lots of...
You Must Be This Happy to Enter
AuthorElizabeth Crane
ISBN1933354437
Whether breathlessly enthusiastic, serenely calm, or really concentrating right now on their personal zombie issues, Elizabeth Crane’s happy cast explores the complexities behind personal satisfaction.

Elizabeth Crane is the author of two previous story collections, When the Messenger...
The Collected Stories
AuthorLorrie Moore
Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for,...
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