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    30 Stories in 30 Days

    By David Wellington

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    The author of Monster Island, the 13 Bullets series, and the upcoming Frostbite made his mark reinventing the classic monsters for the 21st century—zombies, vampires, and now werewolves. He got his ...

    Rating: 4.29

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    Fetching Raymond

    By John Grisham

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    Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on d ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    Famous Modern Ghost Stories

    By Various

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    In the mood for some thrills and chills? Curl up with this 1921 collection of spooky tales by some of the English language’s best writers. Such masters of the supernatural as Edgar Allen Poe, Ambros ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer

    By Poets & Writers

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    This collection of short stories launches a series of short stories available via DailyLit. Additional collections in this series will automatically be sent to you once they become available. ... Ev ...

    Rating: 3.10

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    An Unfinished Death

    By Laurel Dewey

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    Laurel Dewey is a suspense writer with as much storytelling energy and raw emotional power as anyone writing today. Readers share this appraisal, writing rhapsodically about their experiences with her ...

    Rating: 4.25

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    Grimm's Fairy Tales

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    "Once upon a time..." So begin many well-known and light-hearted fairy tales. In Grimm's Fairy Tales, however, the fables we read are full of a more potent combination of the dark and light, ...

    Rating: 3.91

  • cover for The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    By Various

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    Looking for a cure for everyday blahs? Try The Best American Humorous Short Stories, a 1920 treasury of favorite American writers at their funniest. Characters who range from the conniving to the ecc ...

    Rating: 2.00

  • cover for The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

    The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

    By P. G. Wodehouse

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    P.G. Wodehouse’s The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is an early collection of works written just as the author’s celebrated comic genius was reaching its razor-sharp peak. Whether encoun ...

    Rating: 3.30

  • cover for Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

    Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

    By Alexander Kelly

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    This 1901 collection of personal anecdotes and fables brings warmth and humanity to our image of Abraham Lincoln. Insightful and often humorous, these stories capture the essence of a man who has gone ...

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    Andersen's Fairy Tales

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    Beloved children's classics like The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, and The Princess and the Pea come alive in Andersen's enchanting collection of stories.

    Rating: 3.29

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    Overclocked

    By Cory Doctorow

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    6 short stories: "After the Siege", "Anda's Game", "I, Robot", "I, Row-boat", "Printcrime", "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth".

    Rating: 3.89

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    Tales of the Jazz Age

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Dip into the dream-like glamour of the roaring twenties with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. In this anthology, Fitzgerald’s stories fall into three categ ...

    Rating: 4.00

  • cover for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Rating: 3.70

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    Hell-Heaven

    By Jhumpa Lahiri

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    "Hell-Heaven" appears in beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth. The acclaimed collection explores the secrets at the heart of family life. It enters the worlds of sisters a ...

    Rating: 3.94

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    Dubliners

    By James Joyce

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    Dubliners is James Joyce’s 1914 collection of short stories about common people living in Dublin, Ireland. Beginning with tales centered around and told by the very young, and moving into stories ab ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    Nana and Three Short Stories

    By Émile Zola

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    At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but th ...

    Rating: 4.00

  • cover for The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

    The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

    By Anton Chekhov

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    Here is a collection of stories from one of the most famous Russian authors of all time, Anton Chekhov. "The Black Monk," "Volodya", and "An Anonymous Story" all display Chekhov’s brilliance, but it ...

    Rating: 5.00

  • cover for The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

    The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

    By Kate Chopin

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    Here we have a collection of Kate Chopin's writing that includes her masterpiece The Awakening. In that 1899 novel, a vacation brings about a wave of new experience and passion that one woman has neve ...

    Rating: 4.67

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