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Books like Schachnovelle

Loved Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig? 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.

  2. 2

    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · 2019 · Short Stories

    Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.

  3. 3

    Goodnight Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown · 1947 · Short Stories

    Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.

  4. 4

    Rashomon and other stories

    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · 1952 · Short Stories

    Ensemble de contes sombres, cruels et inquiétants se déroulant dans le Japon ancien.

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · Short Stories

    Dark, funny, grace-haunted stories of the American South; unsettling and unforgettable.

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    The Purloined Letter

    Edgar Allan Poe · 1931 · Short Stories

    "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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    Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

    C. S. Forester · 1956 · Short Stories

    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

    Truman Capote · 1956 · Short Stories

    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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    The secret of Father Brown

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1927 · Short Stories

    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

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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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