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Books like Rashomon and other stories
Loved Rashomon and other stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa? 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
Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.
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Exhalation
Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Dark, funny, grace-haunted stories of the American South; unsettling and unforgettable.
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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
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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Goodnight Moon
Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.
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Schachnovelle
Auf einem Passagierdampfer, der von New York nach Buenos Aires unterwegs ist, fordert ein Millionär gegen Honorar den mit einer Art mechanischer Präzision spielenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic
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The Book of Dragons
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 Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in
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The secret of Father Brown
Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining h