Books like The Lottery

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• Great Short Stories of the World Isak Dinesen, Sholom Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, W. Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, Maxim Gorky, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson 14.7 h
• Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Miles Hyman 2.9 h
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway 2.8 h
• Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 6.6 h
• Harvest Home Thomas Tryon 7.6 h
• Swann's Way Marcel Proust 8.1 h
• Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 5.8 h
• The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden 6.8 h
• The Four Million O. Henry 4.8 h
• The Best American Short Stories of the Century John Updike, Katrina Kenison 14.2 h
• The Gunslinger Stephen King 4.8 h
• Interview With the Vampire Anne Rice 6.4 h

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Great Short Stories of the World Isak Dinesen, Sholom Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, W. Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, Maxim Gorky, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson 14.7 h Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Miles Hyman 2.9 h The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway 2.8 h Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 6.6 h Harvest Home Thomas Tryon 7.6 h Swann's Way Marcel Proust 8.1 h Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 5.8 h The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden 6.8 h The Four Million O. Henry 4.8 h The Best American Short Stories of the Century John Updike, Katrina Kenison 14.2 h The Gunslinger Stephen King 4.8 h Interview With the Vampire Anne Rice 6.4 h

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