Reading Short Stories: Where To Start

Best Short Story Writers Of All Time on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

  • The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I

    • ASIN: B005USA8FY

    - Including a short biographies of authors This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Henri Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Jack London, Henri Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Oscar... [Read More]

  • Fatal Starts: Two Gripping Jess Kimball Thrillers with Heart Pounding Suspense to Keep You Awake All Night (The Jess Kimball Thrillers Series Book 11)

    • ASIN: B00A9JQIM6
    • Manufacturer: AugustBooks

    Bestselling JESS KIMBALL SUSPENSE THRILLER SERIES Begins Here. Special Edition. Special Price. Limited time. From award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI in this special combined edition of the first novel and first novella in the highly addictive Jess Kimball Thrillers Series.Introducing Jess Kimball, the relentle... [Read More]

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    • ASIN: 0062316117
    • ISBN: 9780062316110
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bes... [Read More]

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    • ASIN: 076790818X
    • ISBN: 076790818X
    • Brand: Bryson, Bill
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Austr... [Read More]

  • The Things They Carried

    • UPC: 046442706414
    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • ISBN: 0544309766
    • Brand: Tim O Brien
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley... [Read More]

  • Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01N4VW75U
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Underground Railroad: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ISBN: 0345804325
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star TribuneCor... [Read More]

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00DPM7TIG
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Great Gatsby

    • ASIN: 0743273567
    • ISBN: 9780743273565
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn... [Read More]

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ISBN: 0547577311
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    • UPC: 642688054472
    • ASIN: 081298840X
    • ISBN: 081298840X
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • A Man Called Ove: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1476738025
    • ISBN: 9781476738024
    • Brand: Washington Square Press
    • Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

    Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this “charming debut” (People) from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he di... [Read More]

  • Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

    • UPC: 884200612511
    • ASIN: 1400203759
    • ISBN: 1400203759
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    Now a New York Times Bestseller!As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she ag... [Read More]

  • Waiting Is Not Easy! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

    • ASIN: 142319957X
    • ISBN: 9781423199571
    • Brand: Disney-Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion Books for Children

    Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In Waiting Is Not Easy!, Piggie has a surprise for Gerald, but he is going to have to wait for it. And Wait. And wait some more...

  • The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

    • ASIN: B007978P18
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The Screwtape Letters

    • ASIN: 0060652934
    • ISBN: 0060652934
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Size: 0.58" H x 8.03" L x 5.44" W (0.4 lbs) 160 pages
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    The Screwtape Letters by C.S.  Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters... [Read More]

  • A Brief History of Time

    • ASIN: 0553380168
    • ISBN: 9780553380163
    • Brand: Bantam Books
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? W... [Read More]

  • Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

    • ASIN: 0718078136
    • ISBN: 0718078136
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    New York Times Bestseller!What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found i... [Read More]

  • The House on Mango Street

    • ASIN: 0679734775
    • ISBN: 9780679734772
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of... [Read More]

  • Because of Winn-Dixie

    • ASIN: 0763680869
    • ISBN: 0763680869
    • Brand: CANDLEWICK PRESS
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick

    A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller.One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie th... [Read More]

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