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Books like Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

Loved Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Interpreter of Maladies

    Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · Short Stories

    Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.

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    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · 2019 · Short Stories

    Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Truman Capote · 1956 · Short Stories

    Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Go

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · Short Stories

    Dark, funny, grace-haunted stories of the American South; unsettling and unforgettable.

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    Rashomon and other stories

    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · 1952 · Short Stories

    Ensemble de contes sombres, cruels et inquiétants se déroulant dans le Japon ancien.

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    Goodnight Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown · 1947 · Short Stories

    Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.

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    Schachnovelle

    Stefan Zweig · 1943 · Short Stories

    Auf einem Passagierdampfer, der von New York nach Buenos Aires unterwegs ist, fordert ein Millionär gegen Honorar den mit einer Art mechanischer Präzision spielenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic

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    The Book of Dragons

    Edith Nesbit · 1973 · Short Stories

    Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats

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    The Purloined Letter

    Edgar Allan Poe · 1931 · Short Stories

    "The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in

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    Works (Awakening

    Kate Chopin · 1981 · Short Stories

    Contains: [The Awakening][1] [Beyond the Bayou][2] Ma'ame Pelagie [Desiree's Baby][3] A Respectable Woman The Kiss [A Pair of Silk Stockings][4] The Locket A Reflection [1]: https://openlibrary.org/wo

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