If you liked
Books like Flappers and Philosophers
Loved Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald? 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
Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.
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Exhalation
Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.
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Youth and the bright Medusa
Youth and the bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories about artists and the arts.
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Just So 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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William Wilson
"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale follows the theme o
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The secret of Father Brown
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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A diversity of creatures
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
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
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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Alarms and discursions
This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the 'Daily News', and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls aroun