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If you loved The Dead

Books like The Dead

If you loved The Dead by James Joyce, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Short Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli

No. 2

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

No. 3

Dubliners

James Joyce, Jeri Johnson

No. 4

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, Seamus Deane

No. 5

The Complete Stories

Flannery O'Connor

No. 6

The Complete Short Stories

Ernest Hemingway

No. 7

Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

No. 8

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

No. 9

Ulysses

James Joyce

No. 10

Cathedral

Raymond Carver

No. 11

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

No. 12

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles

No. 13

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

William Faulkner

No. 14

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

No. 15

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

No. 16

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

No. 17

Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)

John Updike

No. 18

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

No. 19

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

No. 20

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet

No. 21

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

No. 22

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Raymond Carver

No. 23

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

No. 24

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol, Kevin Hawkes