Books like The street of crocodiles and other stories by Bruno Schulz

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

A collection of Borges’ short stories that frequently employ the labyrinth as a literary device, probing philosophical and everyday aspects of human life.

A collection of magical, evocatively illustrated short stories set in a Polish town between the World Wars, exploring childhood imagination and darker, Kafkaesque themes.

Nightwood traces the complex love affairs of Robin Vote as she moves through relationships with Felix Volkbein, Nora Flood, and Jenny Petherbridge, exploring erotic obsession and identity in a richly symbolic, New York Times–reviewed work of American fiction.

When a family moves into a new home, the bathtub of their new house hides Lyle the crocodile, a musical and mischievous friend who quickly becomes an essential part of their lives.

Welcome to the world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, a college teacher in Regensburg who finds himself embroiled in absurd yet hilarious academic and personal mysteries while pursuing his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs.

Solomon Crocodile’s rough play keeps him lonely by the river—until an unexpected visitor arrives and changes everything.

Emily Prager's A Visit from the Footbinder and Other Stories gathers compact American short stories that paint everyday life and social customs across the United States.

"Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman who is alternately hot and cold toward her, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes the devil-may-care, rich-kid-turned-criminal Meng Sheng and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover Chu Kuang, as well as the bored, mischievous overachiever Tun Tun and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend Zhi Rou. Bursting with the optimism of newfound liberation and romantic idealism despite corroding innocence, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant and intimate masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature"--

A collection of short stories by Edmund Wilson that sketch American middle‑class suburban life, social customs, and intellectual dynamics within a fictional county.