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Books like A Tangled Tale

Loved A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll? 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.

  2. 2

    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 American Claimant

    Mark Twain · 1881 · Short Stories

    The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.

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    Indian Summer

    William Dean Howells · 1885 · Short Stories

    William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his b

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    A Garland for Girls

    Louisa May Alcott · 1887 · Short Stories

    This is a series of vignettes by Louisa May Alcott that illustrate the idea by Sir Philip Sidney that "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." The reader is introduced to sever

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    Plain tales from the hills

    Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · Short Stories

    Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent Englis

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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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    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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    Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow

    Washington Irving · 1867 · Short Stories

    In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

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