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10 best books like Stay Awake (Dan Chaon): Volt, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, Like You'd Understand, Anyway, This Is Not Your City, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, Death Is Not an Option, I Want to Show You More, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, Ladies and Gentlemen

Volt
AuthorAlan Heathcock
ISBN1555975771
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice

One man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him...
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...
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,...
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...
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
AuthorKevin Wilson
ISBN0061579025
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just...
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...
I Want to Show You More
AuthorJamie Quatro
Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in I Want to Show You More are about lives stretched between spirituality...
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0802126022
An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in "The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares" Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Taken by an older...
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN0307379213
Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers—was further confirmation of his mastery: his...
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...
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0753808218
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...
The Best American Short Stories 2011
AuthorGeraldine Brooks
ISBN0547242166
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
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...
The Collected Stories
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0312429894
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
Orientation: And Other Stories
AuthorDaniel Orozco
ISBN0865478538
Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation,...
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...
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
AuthorLucia Perillo
ISBN0393083535
Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.


An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and...
Something Is Out There
AuthorRichard Bausch
ISBN0307266273
From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat” —The New York Times), eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying...
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...
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
AuthorPeter Orner
ISBN0316224642
The long-awaited second collection of stories from a writer whose first was hailed as "one of the best story collections of the last decade" (Kevin Brockmeier).

In Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge, Peter Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in intimate close-up. A woman's...
More of This World or Maybe Another
AuthorBarb Johnson
ISBN0061732273
From the backstreets of New Orleans to the rural Gulf Coast--this is the territory Johnson mines so unforgettably in her debut story collection. Filled with humor and pathos, with the nearness and danger of life on the edge, these stories chart the anxious inner moments of four related characters.

Johnson...
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012
AuthorLaura Furman
ISBN0307947882
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit,...
Vanishing and Other Stories
AuthorDeborah Willis
ISBN0062007521
“The emotional range and depth of these stories, their clarity and deftness, is astonishing.”
—Alice Munro

 

A finalist for the Governor General’s Awards, Vanishing and Other Stories is the stunning debut short story collection from Deborah Willis. Evocative and...
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