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Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 203,976 ratings — published 1999
Nine Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 153,469 ratings — published 1953
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.98 — 80,559 ratings — published 2013
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,602 ratings — published 1914
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,293 ratings — published 2017
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.14 — 95,936 ratings — published 2008
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 75,605 ratings — published 1981
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 343,181 ratings — published 1892
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,570 ratings — published 2002
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,180 ratings — published 2007
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.95 — 71,728 ratings — published 2006
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,686 ratings — published 1979
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,346 ratings — published 1998
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.27 — 107,698 ratings — published 2019
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,001 ratings — published 1949
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,348 ratings — published 2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,412 ratings — published 2015
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 42,777 ratings — published 2006
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,923 ratings — published 1955
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,895 ratings — published 2015
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,528 ratings — published 1992
Cathedral (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 39,335 ratings — published 1983
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 57,238 ratings — published 1993
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,051 ratings — published 2005
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,468 ratings — published 1948
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.40 — 76,789 ratings — published 1944
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.74 — 39,793 ratings — published 2011
Birds of America: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,482 ratings — published 1998
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.44 — 33,416 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.83 — 288,228 ratings — published 1958
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 40,491 ratings — published 1971
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,655 ratings — published 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 715,686 ratings — published 2000
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.05 — 56,749 ratings — published 2016
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,690 ratings — published 2000
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,499 ratings — published 1919
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,635 ratings — published 2001
Florida (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,841 ratings — published 2018
Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.13 — 63,782 ratings — published 1968
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.76 — 38,478 ratings — published 2017
Homesick for Another World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.61 — 40,324 ratings — published 2017
Pastoralia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.06 — 25,890 ratings — published 2000
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.23 — 48,871 ratings — published 2008
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 129,826 ratings — published 1997
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 339,360 ratings — published 1990
Drown (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,061 ratings — published 1995
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.35 — 26,438 ratings — published 1995
Friday Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,675 ratings — published 2018
Difficult Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 3.95 — 30,120 ratings — published 2017
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as shortstories)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,157 ratings — published 1996
“In Sri Lanka, the people you lived amongst, the people you went to school with, the people in whose houses you ate, whose jokes you shared: these were not the people you married. Quite possibly they were not your religion. More to the point they were probably not your caste. This word with its fearsome connotations was never, hardly ever used. But it was ever present: it muddied the waters of Sri Lanka's politics, it perfumed the air of her bed-chambers; it lurked, like a particularly noxious relative, behind the poruwa of every wedding ceremony. It was the c-word. People used its synonym, its acronym, its antonym-indeed any other nym that came to mind - in the vain hope its meaning would somehow go away. It didn't. But if the people you chose to associate with were the very ones you could not marry, then the ones you did marry were quite often people you wouldn't dream of associating with if you had any choice in the matter.”
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
“They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.”
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
― The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
