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Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,891 ratings — published 1999
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.18 — 153,410 ratings — published 1953
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.98 — 80,518 ratings — published 2013
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,457 ratings — published 1914
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,209 ratings — published 2017
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.14 — 95,898 ratings — published 2008
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 75,521 ratings — published 1981
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.07 — 342,689 ratings — published 1892
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,442 ratings — published 2002
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,154 ratings — published 2007
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.95 — 71,718 ratings — published 2006
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,647 ratings — published 1979
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,335 ratings — published 1998
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.27 — 107,560 ratings — published 2019
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,954 ratings — published 1949
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,298 ratings — published 2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,378 ratings — published 2015
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 42,753 ratings — published 2006
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,889 ratings — published 1955
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,890 ratings — published 2015
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,494 ratings — published 1992
Cathedral (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 39,294 ratings — published 1983
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,195 ratings — published 1993
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,045 ratings — published 2005
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,316 ratings — published 1948
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.40 — 76,696 ratings — published 1944
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.74 — 39,777 ratings — published 2011
Birds of America: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,471 ratings — published 1998
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.44 — 33,402 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.83 — 288,081 ratings — published 1958
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.39 — 40,486 ratings — published 1971
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,494 ratings — published 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 715,484 ratings — published 2000
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.05 — 56,625 ratings — published 2016
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,652 ratings — published 2000
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,483 ratings — published 1919
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,622 ratings — published 2001
Florida (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,818 ratings — published 2018
Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.13 — 63,757 ratings — published 1968
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.76 — 38,384 ratings — published 2017
Homesick for Another World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.61 — 40,273 ratings — published 2017
Pastoralia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.06 — 25,865 ratings — published 2000
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.23 — 48,821 ratings — published 2008
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.89 — 129,807 ratings — published 1997
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 339,175 ratings — published 1990
Drown (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,045 ratings — published 1995
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.35 — 26,401 ratings — published 1995
Friday Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,663 ratings — published 2018
Difficult Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.95 — 30,111 ratings — published 2017
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,145 ratings — published 1996
“In Sri Lanka, the people you lived amongst, the people you went to school with, the people in whose houses you ate, whose jokes you shared: these were not the people you married. Quite possibly they were not your religion. More to the point they were probably not your caste. This word with its fearsome connotations was never, hardly ever used. But it was ever present: it muddied the waters of Sri Lanka's politics, it perfumed the air of her bed-chambers; it lurked, like a particularly noxious relative, behind the poruwa of every wedding ceremony. It was the c-word. People used its synonym, its acronym, its antonym-indeed any other nym that came to mind - in the vain hope its meaning would somehow go away. It didn't. But if the people you chose to associate with were the very ones you could not marry, then the ones you did marry were quite often people you wouldn't dream of associating with if you had any choice in the matter.”
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
“This world, I have often thought, would be so much a better place if only we took the trouble to misunderstand our enemies a little, give them the benefit of our doubt. In my short life I have found it never does to look too closely into the minds of people: let their actions speak louder than their words. And their inactions loudest of all.”
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
