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Weird and Wonderful Stories
Looking for collections of short stories or novellas that point out the vibrancy, joy, and strangness of everyday life in a unique way.
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A Man Without a Country
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Slaves of New York
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Kiss Me, Judas
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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
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The Children Act
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Little Birds
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Brave New World
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Hollywood
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The Basketball Diaries
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Heart of Darkness
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The Metamorphosis
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Exquisite Corpse
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Coin Locker Babies
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Beautiful You
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A Million Little Pieces
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Jesus’ Son
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Dermaphoria
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1984
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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The Demon
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The Killer Inside Me
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Geek Love
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Darkness Visible
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Save Yourself
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Kelly Braffet (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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The Setting Sun
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Shame
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The Coma
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Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories
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Forgotten Future Anthology
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Rashaad Bell (Goodreads Author)
3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Roll The Bones
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Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales
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The Gay Icon Classics Of The World II
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Robert Joseph Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Grudge Punk
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John McNee (Goodreads Author)
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Anything But
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Byron Suggs (Goodreads Author)
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Starter House
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The Find: A Short Story
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Lena Goldfinch (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land
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Paul Christensen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Snapdragon: And Six More Short Stories with Bite
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Jack Kardiac (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
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Impromptu Scribe
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4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Small Screen Big Lies
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Kishore Daswani (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Soft Ground
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Urban Temples of Cthulhu - Modern Mythos Anthology
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Khurt Khave (Goodreads Author)
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Memories of a Butterfly
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Squint: And 10 More Surprising Short Stories
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Jack Kardiac (Goodreads Author)
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The Chamber of Doctor Z (Hunter Caine, Soldier of Fortune Book 3)
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Story Bends
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Sheala Dawn Henke (Goodreads Author)
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Work Life Of Jessica
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But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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The Open Window and Other Short Stories
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The Veil Here Is Thumbprint Thin: Poems and Tales from the In-Between
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Nicolette Rene (Goodreads Author)
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Strange Concentrate
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Mike Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Acres of Perhaps
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Will Ludwigsen (Goodreads Author)
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
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Very Odd Short Stories (Stories to tell Book 3)
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Alan Crawford (Goodreads Author)
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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The Bachman Books
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
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Tales of the Peculiar
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Crime (Ray Lennox, #1)
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Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
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More Stories to Tell (Stories to tell Book 2)
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Alan Crawford (Goodreads Author)
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Night Train
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The Graveyard Book
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Something Short
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The Satanic Verses
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Divided Kingdom
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A Story or Two to Tell (Stories to Tell Collection Book 1)
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The Endlands (Volume 2)
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Notes from Underground
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Under the Scotch Broom
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Howl and Other Poems
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Empire of the Senseless
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Soft
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The Crucible
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Apathy and Other Small Victories
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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Running Wild
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
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Liar's Tongue: A Short Story
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Allison M. Dickson (Goodreads Author)
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Moon Tiger
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The Insult
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Pygmy
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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The Contortionist's Handbook
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Three Hundred Million
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The Marbled Swarm
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Ecstasy
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Narcopolis
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Sexing the Cherry
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Solaris
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The Dreamers
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Franz Kafka's The Castle
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