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• The Annotated Arabian Nights

  Tales From 1001 Nights

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  Shahrazad's storytelling powers are life-saving.

• Canterbury Tales

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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  From Bibliocommons: "A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury." The host says that whoever tells the best story will get a free meal paid for by the whole company. The stories can get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Decameron

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

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  A group of people in the 14th century go to the countryside to escape the Black Plague and entertain themselves telling stories.

• The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

  Potocki, Jan, hrabia, 1761-1815

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  "Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Name of the Wind

  the Kingkiller Chronicle : Day One

  Rothfuss, Patrick, 1973-

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  This is a fantasy book that involves excellent storytelling. ""I've never told this story before, and I doub I'll ever tell it again." Kvothe leaned forward in his chair. "Before we begin, you must remember that I am of the Edema Ruh. We were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Everything

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth

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  From Bibliocommons: "With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  Calvino, Italo

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  "If on a winters night a traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess Bride

  S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love & High Adventure

  Goldman, William, 1931-2018

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  "As you wish!"

• Wuthering Heights

  Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848

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  Most of this book is a story told by Nelly to an outsider, and we essentially just have to take her word for it. It's an excellent novel!

• The Christmas Mystery

  A Novel

  Gaarder, Jostein

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  From Bibliocommons: "In the corner of a dusty old bookstore, Joachim discovers a magic advent calendar. When he opens the first window on December first, a small piece of paper falls out, containing the story of a little girl named Elisabet. Using…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watership Down

  Adams, Richard, 1920-2016

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  This book includes stories within stories, including the story of how Frith made the world in which the rabbits live.

• Hamlet

  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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  Beware the mousetrap! I love the play within the play in Hamlet.

• Erasure

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival

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  There is a novel within this novel.