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Books like Dream days

Loved Dream days by Kenneth Grahame? 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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    Stalky and Co

    Rudyard Kipling · 1898 · Short Stories

    This is a collection of short stories about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It was originally published in a series of stories in a magazine, then published in book form in 1899.

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    Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people

    Rudyard Kipling · 1891 · Short Stories

    Life's Handicap contains twenty-seven stories about the experience of the British in India. Contents: The Lang Men O' Larut, Reingelder and the German Flag, The Wandering Jew, Through the Fire, The Fi

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    Main-travelled roads

    Hamlin Garland · 1891 · Short Stories

    Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening ret

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    The Dolly dialogues

    Anthony Hope · 1890 · Short Stories

    "There's ingratitude for you!" Miss Dolly Foster exclaimed suddenly.

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    Nonsense novels

    Stephen Leacock · 1900 · Short Stories

    “The author of this book offers it to the public without apology,” Leacock boldly asserts in the Preface before launching into a slew of riotous stories. In this book you’ll find:Maddened by Mystery:

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    Queen Lucia

    E. F. Benson · 1900 · Short Stories

    Lucia is the social queen of the small English village of Riseholme, where everyone is in everyone else's business; where Daisy and Lucia compete to have the best parties, to be the best hostess, to i

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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · Short Stories

    Contains: - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Scandal in Bohemia Red-Headed League Case of Identity Boscombe Valley Mystery Five Orange Pips Man with the Twisted Lip Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Advent

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    The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    Beatrix Potter · 1900 · Short Stories

    One of the best known and loved children's stories is the story of naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures as he is chased around a garden.

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