Category
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The Decameron
14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio
Bardo Thodol
Nyingma terma text revealed by Karma Lingpa

The Prophet
1923 book with 26 prose poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
apocryphal gospel on the childhood of Jesus

Pentamerone
thumb|200px|page=7|Il Pentamerone from a 1788 edition, Naples
The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti (), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.

Winesburg, Ohio
short story cycle by Sherwood Anderson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou

The Light of Asia
book
Tales of the Alhambra
book

The Illustrated Man
1951 short story collection by Ray Bradbury

The Buddha and His Dhamma
Holy book of Indian Buddhist

Delta of Venus
1977 short story collection by Anaïs Nin
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
English work of Japanese horror and entomology

Les Diaboliques
collection of short stories written by Barbey d'Aurevilly

84, Charing Cross Road
1970 memoir by Helene Hanff

The Informers
1994 short story collection by Bret Easton Ellis

Something for Nothing
short story by Robert Sheckley

Ten Nights of Dreams
novel by Natsume Sōseki
Hayflower and Quiltshoe
book series by Sinikka and Tiina Nopola

High in the Clouds
book by Paul McCartney