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Books like Works (Awakening

Loved Works (Awakening by Kate Chopin? 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 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 most dangerous game

    Richard Connell · 1990 · Short Stories

    The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow h

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    Rappaccini's Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne · 2001 · Short Stories

    "Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses

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    A Tale of Three Lions

    H. Rider Haggard · 2004 · Short Stories

    Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir He

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    Winter Dreams

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · Short Stories

    "Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzg

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    Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

    C. S. Forester · 1956 · Short Stories

    As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wa

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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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