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10 best books like The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story (Joan Wickersham): Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, The End of the Point, Bluebeard, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Music for Wartime: Stories, The War Between the Tates, Honeydew, The UnAmericans, The Man with No Borders, The Beginning Place

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...
The End of the Point
AuthorElizabeth Graver
A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them.

A place out of time, Ashaunt Point - a tiny finger of land...
Bluebeard
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
AuthorElizabeth McCracken
ISBN0385335776
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...
Music for Wartime: Stories
AuthorRebecca Makkai
ISBN0525426698
Named a must-read by the  Chicago Tribune , O Magazine,  BuzzFeed ,  The Huffington Post ,  Minneapolis Star-Tribune , and The L Magazine

Named one of the best short story collections of 2015 by Bookpage and Kansas City Star

Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels,...
The War Between the Tates
AuthorAlison Lurie
ISBN0749397829
The War Between The Tates subtly dissects the disintegration of a perfect marriage. Brian Tate and his wife Erica seem to have it all: a strong relationship, beautiful children, good friends and enough money. But when Brian, a middle-aged professor of political science, begins an affair with a female...
Honeydew
AuthorEdith Pearlman
ISBN0316297224
A new story collection from Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award for her last collection, Binocular Vision.

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Binocular Vision, Honeydew further solidifies...
The UnAmericans
AuthorMolly Antopol
ISBN0393349969
In this auspicious debut, Molly Antopol cuts a wide swath through the fabric of time and place, exploring people from different cultures who are all painfully human in their joys, desires, tragedies, and heartaches. An actor, phased out of Hollywood for his Communist ties during McCarthyism, tries...
The Man with No Borders
AuthorRichard C. Morais
A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey.

It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with...
The Beginning Place
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0765346257
Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle...
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