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10 best books like Other Electricities (Ander Monson): Like You'd Understand, Anyway, How They Were Found, Nice Big American Baby, At the Jim Bridger, Things that Fall from the Sky, Honeymoon: And Other Stories, AM/PM, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge, Night Soul and Other Stories, The Collected Stories

Like You'd Understand, Anyway
AuthorJim Shepard
ISBN0307265218
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.

Like You’d Understand,...
How They Were Found
AuthorMatt Bell
In this debut collection, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic...
Nice Big American Baby
AuthorJudy Budnitz
ISBN0375726861
A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world–and imagination–knows no boundaries. “I don’t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,” said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, “but I’m happy to have her. Tremendous...
At the Jim Bridger
AuthorRon Carlson
ISBN0312307241
Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your suburban living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses spins a rollicking tale of happiness and disappointment; and where a desperate ex-con with a broken heart must hide out in a desert hotel, only to...
Things that Fall from the Sky
AuthorKevin Brockmeier
ISBN0375727698
Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.

In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts...
Honeymoon: And Other Stories
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0375708006
The characters in Kevin Canty’s new collection are people we all know. People who are perhaps ourselves, searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or at least, for a moment, right. Here are couples like Vincent and Laurie, who after beginning an ill-timed relationship,...
AM/PM
AuthorAmelia Gray
ISBN0977199274
If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, impish humor and cutting insight are on full display. Readers tour the lives of 23 characters across...
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
AuthorJames Tadd Adcox
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge is a short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir, poetry and prose, realism and irrealism.

Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark...
Night Soul and Other Stories
AuthorJoseph McElroy
ISBN1564786021
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction...
The Collected Stories
AuthorLeonard Michaels
ISBN0374126542
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they...
The Question of Bruno
AuthorAleksandar Hemon
ISBN0375727000
In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.

A love affair is experienced in the blink of...
O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
AuthorLaura Furman
ISBN0307280349
An annual collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is studded with extraordinary settings and characters: a teenager in survivalist Alaska, the seed keeper of a doomed Chinese...
I Sailed with Magellan
AuthorStuart Dybek
ISBN0312424116
Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets...
The Watch
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0844669318
In this extraordinary fiction debut, Rick Bass establishes himself in the first rank of American writers. Rooted in the creative traditions of the South, his stories introduce us to men who belong— in spirit if not always in fact— to the American outback, to the deserts of Utah, the swamps of Mississippi,...
The Wavering Knife
AuthorBrian Evenson
ISBN1573661139
Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In...
Esther Stories
AuthorPeter Orner
ISBN0618128735
Peter Orner explores the impact of life’s essential moments, those brief but far-reaching occasions that haunt his characters. The discovery of a crime, a theatrical performance in a small town, or the recollection of a cruel wartime decision are equally affecting in Orner’s vivid scenarios....
Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
AuthorJason Brown
ISBN1890447471
“Everything Natalie said seemed, to herself, to have been said better by him. He was less fond of speaking, however, than he was of hitting people in the face, which seemed a more likely source of her love to those of us who knew him,” begins Jason Brown’s linked collection of beautifully haunted,...
All This Heavenly Glory
AuthorElizabeth Crane
ISBN0316014214
The glittering new book from the author hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "unique, intriguing, and often hilarious."

Here are the events that make up a life: a junior high school fashion crisis, a best friend's betrayal, substance abuse, recovery, finding a satisfying career, dating fiascos,...
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
AuthorManuel Muñoz
ISBN1565125320
Manuel Munoz's dazzling collection is set in a Mexican-American neighborhood in central California-a place where misunderstandings and secrets shape people's lives. From a set of triplets with three distinct fates to a father who places his hope-and life savings-in the hands of a faith healer,...
Selected Stories
AuthorRing Lardner
ISBN0141180188
A lot of people probably first encounter Lardner when they're assigned to read "Haircut" or "Golden Honeymoon" in high school or a little earlier. Nothing wrong with that, of course, since he's entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny. But what you don't really grasp in high school is how subtle Lardner...
Fitting Ends
AuthorDan Chaon
ISBN0345449096
Fitting Ends is the first collection of fiction by the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist Among the Missing and now appears in this newly revised edition with two never before collected stories.
 
Written before Among the Missing and originally published by Northwestern...
Excitability
AuthorDiane Williams
ISBN1564781976
The mighty reading list dictates and, having dictated, moves on...

So a nice little lit short fiction comp to cleanse the palate after tons of genre material. This officially would be a 2.5 or even 2.75 if such things could be, but gets the 2 over the 3 because, yeah, I didn't finish it and that was...
The Portable Promised Land
AuthorTouré
ISBN0316666432
This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. In dazzling language and startling images, Touré invents a place called Soul City, America’s most miraculous metropolis. In an astonishing array of voices and styles, The Portable Promised Land celebrates the most soulful corners...
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