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Books like William Wilson

Loved William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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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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    The secret of Father Brown

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1927 · Short Stories

    Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining h

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    Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling · 1922 · Short Stories

    Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.

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    Tales of the Jazz Age

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922 · Short Stories

    Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed nove

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    Flappers and Philosophers

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · Short Stories

    Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes

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    Youth and the bright Medusa

    Willa Cather · 1920 · Short Stories

    Youth and the bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories about artists and the arts.

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    A diversity of creatures

    Rudyard Kipling · 1917 · Short Stories

    A collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling. These include 'As easy as A.B.C. (A Science Fiction short, set in 2065 AD)', 'Mary Postgate,' and 'The village that voted the earth was flat

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    Beasts and Super-Beasts

    Saki · 1914 · Short Stories

    Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an unseen world of their own experience or imagination - or i

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    Little Wizard stories of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1914 · Short Stories

    Six tales present further the adventures of Dorothy and Toto, Ozma, Tiktok, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Tin Woodman, and other characters from the land of Oz.

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