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Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 160 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 132,180 ratings — published 2002
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,852 ratings — published 2017
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 185,029 ratings — published 1914
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 385,010 ratings — published 1892
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 123 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 117,734 ratings — published 2019
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,128 ratings — published 1999
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 84,581 ratings — published 2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,598 ratings — published 1981
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,325 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,545,131 ratings — published 1915
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,957 ratings — published 1949
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,578 ratings — published 2016
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 406,839 ratings — published 2017
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,331 ratings — published 1979
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 83,308 ratings — published 1944
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,223 ratings — published 2006
How Long 'til Black Future Month? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,622 ratings — published 2018
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 119,016 ratings — published 1948
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,418 ratings — published 1955
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,390 ratings — published 1971
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,424 ratings — published 2015
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 293,134 ratings — published 1950
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,008 ratings — published 1992
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,842 ratings — published 1998
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,617 ratings — published 2015
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,999 ratings — published 1996
Pastoralia (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,662 ratings — published 2000
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,754 ratings — published 1983
The Illustrated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 110,602 ratings — published 1951
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 65 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 57,643 ratings — published 1973
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 64 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 187,715 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 234,381 ratings — published 2018
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 46,301 ratings — published 2007
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 22,655 ratings — published 1988
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 28,600 ratings — published 1995
Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,821 ratings — published 1968
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 165,283 ratings — published 2018
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,359 ratings — published 1978
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 38,459 ratings — published 1987
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,544 ratings — published 1853
Magic for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,333 ratings — published 2005
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,644 ratings — published 1849
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,527 ratings — published 2013
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,536 ratings — published 1962
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 225,952 ratings — published 1982
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 206,642 ratings — published 2021
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
by (shelved 51 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,252 ratings — published 2016
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,411 ratings — published 2005
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,985 ratings — published 1915
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as short-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 35,726 ratings — published 2019
“My knowledge is just tiny pinpricks of light on a gigantic black sheet of ignorance”
― Music from a Strange Planet
― Music from a Strange Planet
“I raised you to care deeply, too much so. About words, for one thing. All those years spent working as a bilingual teacher’s aide, undoing what Khmer children learned at home, perhaps it had made me paranoid. I thought I needed to ensure your fluency in English, in being American. The last thing I had wanted was for you to end up like your Ba—speaking broken English to angry customers, his life covered in the grease of cars belonging to men who were more American. So I read to you as much as I could, packed your room with dictionaries and encyclopedias, played movies in English constantly in the background, and spoke Khmer only in whispers, behind closed doors. No wonder mere words affected you so much. Even now, you still think language is the key to everything. And that’s my fault—I thought the same thing.”
― Afterparties
― Afterparties
