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10 best books like The Tsar of Love and Techno (Anthony Marra): The Underground Railroad, Night at the Fiestas, The Water Museum, Battleborn, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories, The Redemption of Galen Pike, Fortune Smiles, Music for Wartime: Stories

The Underground Railroad
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385542364
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad,...
Night at the Fiestas
AuthorKirstin Valdez Quade
ISBN0393352218
With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths. The deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the...
The Water Museum
AuthorLuis Alberto Urrea
ISBN0316334375
NAMED NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Washington Post, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Men's Journal

A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway.

From one of America's preeminent literary...
Battleborn
AuthorClaire Vaye Watkins
ISBN1594488258
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...
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...
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...
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN0393353265
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate...
The Redemption of Galen Pike
AuthorCarys Davies
ISBN1907773711
In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change...
Fortune Smiles
AuthorAdam Johnson
ISBN0857522973
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something...
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,...
Half Wild: Stories
AuthorRobin MacArthur
ISBN0062444395
A powerfully authentic new literary voice debuts with stories that carve out a distinctive vision of the wildness and beauty of rural Vermont.

Spanning nearly forty years, the stories in Robin MacArthur’s formidable debut give voice to the hopes, dreams, hungers, and fears of a diverse...
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN0062202731
From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. 

The...
Daydreams of Angels
AuthorHeather O'Neill
ISBN0374280428
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author

The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal...
In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
AuthorHelen Maryles Shankman
ISBN1501115197
*Finalist for the 2016 Story Prize
*Honorable Mention for the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for Achievement in Jewish Literature
*A Spring 2016 Discover Great New Writers selection at Barnes & Noble

A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee,...
Thirteen Ways of Looking
AuthorColum McCann
ISBN1443446254
From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time, tenderly exploring the act of writing and the moment of creation when characters come alive on the page; the lifetime consequences that...
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 Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
AuthorJoy Williams
ISBN1101874899
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...
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 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...
Man V. Nature
AuthorDiane Cook
ISBN0062333100
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world

Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the...
Aetherial Worlds: Stories
AuthorTatyana Tolstaya
ISBN0525589112
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years.

Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's...
There's Something I Want You to Do
AuthorCharles Baxter
From a contemporary master of the short story: a dazzling new collection-his first in fifteen years-that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience.

These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to virtues (Bravery, Loyalty, Chastity,...
Safe as Houses
AuthorMarie-Helene Bertino
ISBN1609381149
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout...
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