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David Grossman's Top Book Recommendations

Want to know what books David Grossman recommends? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of David Grossman's favorite book recommendations of all time. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.

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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Sholem Aleichem, Aliza Shevrin, Dan Miron

4.3
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem Aleichem reveals the fabric of a now-vanished world.

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2

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska, David Goldfarb, Jonathan Safran Foer

4.3
The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)

Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete fiction, i
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3

Dubliners

James Joyce, Terence Brown, Roman Muradov, Colum McCann

4.2
For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century

Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “
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Mario and the Magician and Other Stories

Thomas Mann

4.3
In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him: the two faces of things. Thus, in A Man and His Dog and Disorder and Early Sorrow, small domestic tempests become symbolic of the discordant muddle of humanity. In The Transposed Heads and The Tables of Law the de
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History

Elsa Morante, William Weaver, Lily Tuck

4.3
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary peop
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