5 must-read short stories books like Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison

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Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu…

If you liked the short stories plot in Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Killing Star

By: George Zebrowski , Charles Pellegrino

3.34

Format: 320 pages,

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Similar categories in George Zebrowski's The Killing Star book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction

2. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

By: Philip K. Dick

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more

Similar categories in Philip K. Dick's VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1) book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. A Congregation of Jackals

By: S. Craig Zahler

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of … read more

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4. The Stories of Ray Bradbury

By: Ray Bradbury

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Included here are famous tales like Sound of Thunder, in which the carelessness of a group of time-… read more

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5. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe

By: Ryan North , Erica Henderson

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Proof that we're living in the best of all possible worlds: THERE'S GONNA BE A SQUIRREL GIRL GRAPHI… read more

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6. A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

By: Ray Bradbury

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of Ame… read more

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7. Always Coming Home

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Margaret Chodos-Irvine , None

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's mos… read more

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8. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Stitches

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate co… read more

Similar categories in Hirokatsu Kihara's Stitches book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison

11. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • classics
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays

By: Cixin Liu

3.54

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and f… read more

Similar categories in Cixin Liu's A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

13. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

14. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

Similar categories in Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • fiction
  • horror
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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15. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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16. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

17. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker

19. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Houses of the Unholy book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho yeeun

20. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

Cover of Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) by Dennis E. Taylor

21. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.38

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more

Similar categories in Dennis E. Taylor's Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) book and Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits

  • science fiction
  • fiction

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