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Books like Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people

Loved Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people 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

  1. 1

    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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    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.

  5. 5

    Dream days

    Kenneth Grahame · 1898 · Short Stories

    Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nouri

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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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    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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    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

  10. 10

    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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