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1	Eclipse more books like this by Stephenie Meyer add to wishlist The author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "Twilight" and "New Moon" delivers the much-anticipated third novel in this engrossing series. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella Swan once again finds herself surrounded by danger. see all copies from $2.76! new only from $5.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Say You're One of Them more books like this by Uwem Akpan add to wishlist From a portrait of a family living together in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya to a Rwandan girl's account of her family's struggles to maintain normalcy amid unspeakable horrors, each of the short stories in this collection is a testament to the wisdom and resilience of children. see all copies from $9.40! new only from $9.40! \| first editions
3	Unaccustomed Earth more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist In this collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, eight dazzling stories take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as each explores the secrets at the heart of family life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Just After Sunset: Stories more books like this by Stephen King add to wishlist Following his two recent critically acclaimed bestsellers, "Duma Key" and "Lisey's Story," celebrated author King delivers a stunning collection of short stories, his first in six years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Complete Stories more books like this by Flannery O'Connor add to wishlist Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day." see all copies from $3.49! new only from $6.12! \| first editions
6	Ford County more books like this by John Grisham add to wishlist Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill." This wholly surprising collection reminds readers once again why Grisham is one of America's favorite storytellers. see all copies from $10.59! new only from $10.59! \| first editions
7	The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's short stories are considered his best work because of their controlled economy, the simplicity of their language, and Hemingway's constant struggle to get to the truth in a situation. see all copies from $6.19! new only from $13.15! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Weight of Glory more books like this by C S Lewis add to wishlist Examining the difference between unselfishness and love, these nine classic sermons on faith, delivered during World War II, are more relevant today than ever. see all copies from $4.46! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men more books like this by David Foster Wallace add to wishlist This book alternates interviews--in which only the interviewee's voice is heard--with formally innovative short stories and pseudo-essays. Dwelling on sex, obsession, and adolescence, Wallace charts paths through an etymological dictionary and the mind of a boy on a high-dive with equal enthusiasm. This book was named a New York Times Notable Book ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Complete Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony." see all copies from $3.23! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Different Seasons more books like this by Stephen King (Afterword by) add to wishlist A collection of four short stories, two of which became the basis for major motion pictures. The film "Stand By Me" was adapted from "The Body", while the Academy Award winning film "The Shawshank Redemption" was adapted from the story "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories more books like this by Wells Tower (Read by) add to wishlist In Tower's debut collection of stories, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves in an America that is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, and wayward sons. see all copies from $12.79! new only from $12.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales more books like this by Stephen King add to wishlist These 14 chilling short stories comprise the first story collection by Stephen King in nine years. Though one story won an O. Henry Prize and four others were published in The New Yorker, don't be fooled--these are still the eerie, bizarre, and devilish writings of horror's most prodigious and best-selling writer. Also includes "Riding the Bullet, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	In Our Time more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's first book--a collection of short stories and vignettes--was published in 1925 and includes his famous Nick Adams stories: "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Delta of Venus more books like this by Anais Nin add to wishlist Nin originally was paid a dollar a word to write this series of lyrical erotic tales, which has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders more books like this by Daniyal Mueenuddin add to wishlist A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan. see all copies from $8.77! new only from $8.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Short stories. more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist The definitive collection of the stories of Ernest Hemingway, with a preface by the author, originally published in 1938. Hemingway's short stories are considered his best work because of their controlled economy, the simplicity of their language, and Hemingway's constant struggle to get to the truth in a situation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Dubliners more books like this by James Joyce add to wishlist Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Thing Around Your Neck more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie add to wishlist In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, award-winning author Adichie turns her penetrating eye not only on Nigeria but on America as well, in 12 dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the U.S. see all copies from $14.90! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction more books like this by J D Salinger add to wishlist Two long short stories about Salinger's Glass family, previously published in The New Yorker. Both stories are about the life and tragic death of Seymour Glass, the eldest of the Glass children, and his siblings' reaction to it. The events are seen through the eyes of Seymour's brother Buddy, who is often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Where I'm Calling from more books like this by Raymond Carver add to wishlist A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver's best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond Carver's popularity has increased dramatically. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Close Range: Wyoming Stories more books like this by E Annie Proulx add to wishlist Eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The volume is illustrated with watercolors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Small Wonder: Essays more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver add to wishlist In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces on frogs, crabs, and the Grand Canyon, she conveys an appreciation of the natural world and its connection to ours. A letter to her mother about writing, and one to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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