Thunderstruck & Other Stories
10 best books like Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Elizabeth McCracken): The Dutch House, Trust Exercise, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, Middle Men: Stories, Music for Wartime: Stories, Among the Missing, Last Stories, The Girl on the Fridge, Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062963678 |
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0062864688 |
6 Hours and 55 Minutes
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.
At times raucously hilarious,...
| Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
| ISBN | 1451643357 |
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...
| Author | Jim Gavin |
| ISBN | 1451649312 |
In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In "Play the Man" a high-school basketball player...
| Author | Rebecca Makkai |
| ISBN | 0525426698 |
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,...
| Author | Dan Chaon |
| ISBN | 0345441613 |
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling...
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor was regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the admired master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered stories that illuminate the human condition which will surely...
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 0374531056 |
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in Mossad -- such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret's first collections, the ones that...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570616507 |
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops...
"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Beautiful, intricate and wise."—New York Times Book Review
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris,...
| Author | Edith Pearlman |
| ISBN | 0316297224 |
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...
| Author | Molly Antopol |
| ISBN | 0393349969 |
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...
