Bobcat and Other Stories

10 best books like Bobcat and Other Stories (Rebecca Lee): Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Orange World and Other Stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Battleborn, We Live in Water, A Guide to Being Born: Stories, The Color Master: Stories, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, The Dead Fish Museum

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Author	Danielle Evans
ISBN	1594487693

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...

Orange World and Other Stories

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	1984892215

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	0307957233

Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club

A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013

From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...

Battleborn

Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
ISBN	1594488258

Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents...

We Live in Water

Author	Jess Walter
ISBN	0061926620

We Live in Water is a darkly comic, moving collection of short stories that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This...

A Guide to Being Born: Stories

Author	Ramona Ausubel
ISBN	1594487952

Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.

Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly...

The Color Master: Stories

Author	Aimee Bender
ISBN	0385534892

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.

Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and...

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Author	Elizabeth McCracken
ISBN	0385335776

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Author	Joy Williams
ISBN	1101874899

The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in...

The Dead Fish Museum

Author	Charles D'Ambrosio
ISBN	1400042860

“In the fall, I went for walks and brought home bones. The best bones weren’t on trails—deer and moose don’t die conveniently—and soon I was wandering so far into the woods that I needed a map and compass to find my way home. When winter came and snow blew into the mountains, burying the bones,...

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

Author	Charles Baxter
ISBN	1555974732

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.

Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the...