 | We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Buy used from: $18.00 Most versatile writer working today.
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 | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
Buy used from: $22.47 Much anthologized Pulitzer prize winner
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 | Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11) by P. D. James
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Creator of Adam Dalgleish, poet and sleuth
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 | My Antonia by Willa Cather
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 Love MY ANTONIA; she also wrote one of my favorite short stories, "Paul's Case".
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 | She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
Buy used from: $0.01 Writes about Appalachian mystery and lore. Nora Bonesteel, Spencer Arroway stories are great.
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 | Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.39 Booker prize winner. This one is especially original. There's a novel within a novel.
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 | Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann Porter
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.66 If you like SHIP OF FOOLS, try her short stories. They're just as good.
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 | The Body in the Library (Miss Marple) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Talk about a rounded character. Ms. Marpel is still the best.
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 | The Portable Dorothy Parker (Viking Portable Library) by Dorothy Parker
Buy used from: $0.08 "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." Mae West with a diploma.
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 | Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.97 Virginia Woolf contemporary and rival. I like Mansfield better.
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 | Fifty Stories (A Revived Modern Classic) by Kay Boyle
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $2.55 Much anthologized short story writer. Smart as a whip.
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 | The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 Late nineteenth century feminist.
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 | The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.74 "A Good Man is Hard to Find" will wow you. Her other stories are almost as good.
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 | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Buy new: $32.66 / Used from: $0.53 Does for Mississippi what Faulkner did for Mississippi.
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| Tales and Stories for Black Folks
Buy used from: $6.08 My favorite black writer, male or female.
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| The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Buy used from: $1.42 Interconnected stories with a powwow setting.
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 | The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Buy used from: $0.01 A good model for beginning writers. A good mix of humor and drama.
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 | Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy used from: $0.01 I love the little Indian kid.
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 | Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Buy used from: $0.01 Seems like she's up for the National Book Award every year.
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 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Buy used from: $0.01 Different, the highest praise I can give.
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 | The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Buy used from: $0.01 Author of "The Lottery"; also the author of "Charles". Another versatile writer, equally at home with domestic humor and terror.
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 | A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.99 See the movie, then read her stories. They're better.
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 | Looking for Mr Goodbar (Washington Square Press.) by Judith Rossner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.14 Scared me bad. It bothered me for days.
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 | The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $0.01 On a par with CATCHER IN THE RYE. And her poems ain't bad either.
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 | The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 New York society, circa 1870.
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