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Books like A diversity of creatures

Loved A diversity of creatures by Rudyard Kipling? 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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    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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    Alarms and discursions

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1910 · Short Stories

    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

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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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    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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    Three Lives

    Gertrude Stein · 1909 · Short Stories

    Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and

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    William Wilson

    Edgar Allan Poe · 1925 · Short Stories

    "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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