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Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 209,333 ratings — published 1999
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,663 ratings — published 1948
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.83 — 182,393 ratings — published 1914
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.98 — 83,916 ratings — published 2013
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,576 ratings — published 2017
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,517 ratings — published 1981
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,441 ratings — published 1892
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,617 ratings — published 2008
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.25 — 130,045 ratings — published 2002
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 45,951 ratings — published 2007
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,158 ratings — published 2006
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,801 ratings — published 2019
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,709 ratings — published 1979
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,749 ratings — published 1998
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,901 ratings — published 1948
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.35 — 39,991 ratings — published 2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,569 ratings — published 2015
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,353 ratings — published 1949
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.83 — 44,074 ratings — published 2006
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,899 ratings — published 1955
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.39 — 81,935 ratings — published 1944
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,401 ratings — published 1992
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,284 ratings — published 1983
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,327 ratings — published 2015
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.82 — 59,383 ratings — published 1993
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,361 ratings — published 2005
Birds of America: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,854 ratings — published 1998
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,281 ratings — published 1962
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,239 ratings — published 1971
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.73 — 130,305 ratings — published 2014
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.74 — 40,766 ratings — published 2011
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 60,057 ratings — published 2000
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 23,483 ratings — published 2001
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,547 ratings — published 1919
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 726,580 ratings — published 2000
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,281 ratings — published 2016
Pastoralia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,393 ratings — published 2000
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.15 — 352,542 ratings — published 1990
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,073 ratings — published 1958
Florida (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,386 ratings — published 2018
Homesick for Another World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.60 — 43,046 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,226 ratings — published 2008
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.41 — 22,569 ratings — published 1988
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,248 ratings — published 1997
Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,439 ratings — published 1968
Self-Help (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,148 ratings — published 1985
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.73 — 44,981 ratings — published 2017
Drown (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,596 ratings — published 1995
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.34 — 28,205 ratings — published 1995
Friday Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,560 ratings — published 2018
“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
“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
