Orientation: And Other Stories

10 best books like Orientation: And Other Stories (Daniel Orozco): The Story of an Hour, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life, Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love, Someday This Will Be Funny, The Last Night of the World, A Small Hotel, American Salvage, Big Girl Small, Next to Love

The Story of an Hour

Author

Kate Chopin

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of women. From the famous proto-feminist tale "The Story of an Hour" to the subtly sexy "A Respectable Woman," Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations...

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Author

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

From the creator and executive producer of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack...

Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life

Author	Kyran Pittman
ISBN	1594488002

Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.

In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids...

Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love

Author	Andrea N. Richesin
ISBN	0373892330

Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking...

Someday This Will Be Funny

Author	Lynne Tillman
ISBN	1935869000

The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...

The Last Night of the World

Author

Ray Bradbury

It´s a sad short story about the last night on Earth to be honest its not that interesting. .

A Small Hotel

Author	Robert Olen Butler
ISBN	0802119875

A Small Hotel is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and redemption. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, the novel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
The book begins on the day...

American Salvage

Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell

“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...

Big Girl Small

Author	Rachel DeWoskin
ISBN	0374112576

A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.

Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old - sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake...

Next to Love

Author	Ellen Feldman
ISBN	0812992717

Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.

Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives...