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10 best books like Women and Other Animals: Stories (Bonnie Jo Campbell): Death Is Not an Option, Love and Other Wounds: Stories, Daddy's, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Coast of Good Intentions, Ladies and Gentlemen, How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls, Girl Trouble, Flying Leap, A Stranger in this World

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...
Love and Other Wounds: Stories
AuthorJordan Harper
In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart.

A man runs away from his...
Daddy's
AuthorLindsay Hunter
ISBN0982580800
Lindsay Hunter tells the stories no one else will in ways no one else can. In this down and dirty debut she draws vivid portraits of bad people in worse places. A woman struggles to survive her boyfriend's terror preparations. A wife finds that the key to her sex life lies in her dog’s electric collar....
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
The Coast of Good Intentions
AuthorMichael Byers
ISBN0395891701
In the very first story I read: "I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us." and I realized that as I read Michael Byer's works I had come to them and they were collecting mysteriously...
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...
How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls
AuthorDonna Dale Carnegie
ISBN1435276663
It's all about making friends and being a good friend! The teen years can be tricky -- especially if you are a girl. Let's face it, teen girls deal with pressures and dilemmas that teen boys couldn't even dream of, let alone handle! In How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls, Donna Dale...
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...
Flying Leap
AuthorJudy Budnitz
ISBN0006551831
I'd heard good things about Judy Budnitz, that she's original, wacky and all that. And I really appreciate it when a short-story writer tries to experiment and entertain rather than shock and depress. But too many of these stories just left me cold. They tried so damn hard to be clever that they felt forced;...
A Stranger in this World
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0679763945
Brilliantly sharp, poignant, superbly crafted stories. Beautifully written, swooping deep into his characters as they make bad decisions (mainly - these pieces are about fuck ups). Memorable images make them stick - the trailer on its side where a couple are entertained by a stranger who has just...
The Angel on the Roof
AuthorRussell Banks
ISBN0060931256
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works,...
Someday This Will Be Funny
AuthorLynne Tillman
ISBN1935869000
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
Who I Was Supposed to Be
AuthorSusan Perabo
ISBN0743290372
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns;...
A Relative Stranger: Stories
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN0393322203
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday...
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0060933577
An emotional and somewhat depraved read, I've had an exceptionally difficult time putting my feelings about this anthology into words. I've done my best to try and come back to this review all articulate and concise. But...I...just can't!!

There are a lot of stories in this collection and...
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...
Famous Fathers and Other Stories
AuthorPia Z. Ehrhardt
ISBN1596922125
A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize.

Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships.

In...
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
AuthorJim Shepard
ISBN1400033497
I’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, re-closing...
City of Boys
AuthorBeth Nugent
ISBN0679733515
Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her domineering mother and falls into an obsessive love affair...
Circling the Drain
AuthorAmanda Davis
ISBN0688179096
          Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents...
Baby and Other Stories
AuthorPaula Bomer
ISBN0977934373
Paula Bomer is a dangerous writer. The short stories in her debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family. From a husband who traces his internal crisis to witnessing his wife giving birth, to a mother who forces her young son on a rainy walk through a cemetery as she contemplates...
What He's Poised to Do: Stories
AuthorBen Greenman
ISBN0061987409
Ben Greenman is a writer of virtuosic range and uncanny emotional insight. As Darin Strauss has noted, "Like Bruno Schulz, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and no one else I can think of, Greenman has the power to be whimsical without resorting to whimsy." The stories in this new collection, What...
Later, at the Bar
AuthorRebecca Barry
ISBN1416535241
Barnes & Noble Review from Discover Great New Writers
A collection of ten interwoven stories, Barry's debut tells the sad and funny tales of the forlorn denizens of Lucy's Tavern, a gathering place and watering hole for the hapless, lonely, and lovelorn. Lucy, the eponymous owner of the bar,...
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