31 Best short stories books like The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) by Jess Walter

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The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

By: Jess Walter

3.57

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a #1 New York Times be…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) by Jess Walter , here is a list of 31 books like this:

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

1. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

2. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

3. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

4. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Last Conversation

By: Paul Tremblay

3.76

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Last Conversation book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."

-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

6. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

7. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Ark

By: Veronica Roth

3.60

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Ark book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

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9. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's Emergency Skin book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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10. You Have Arrived at Your Destination

By: Amor Towles

3.49

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of th… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's You Have Arrived at Your Destination book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Randomize

By: Andy Weir

3.53

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more

Similar categories in Andy Weir's Randomize book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Everything My Mother Taught Me

By: Alice Hoffman

4.00

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts di… read more

Similar categories in Alice Hoffman's Everything My Mother Taught Me book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Summer Frost

By: Blake Crouch

4.10

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more

Similar categories in Blake Crouch's Summer Frost book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Because sometimes life is so rich and complicated and surprising that it takes your breath away."

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectiveyly, which is allowed by consciousnes…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

Cover of The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) by Ken Liu

14. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

By: Ken Liu

3.48

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of ever… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) by Jess Walter

15. The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

By: Jess Walter

3.57

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a #1 New York Times be… read more

Similar categories in Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Tangled Woods

By: Emily Raboteau

2.87

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

He went on the road expecting the worst of America, but what if the worst of America was also in hi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's The Tangled Woods book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Slow Burner

By: Laura Lippman

3.86

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman watches her marriage implode over text message and decides that ignorance is not bliss in t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Slow Burner book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Sleep Tight Motel

By: Lisa Unger

3.73

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman on the run finds refuge in a motel at the edge of the woods, with plenty of vacancies. Chec… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The Sleep Tight Motel book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Can You Feel This?

By: Julie Orringer

3.67

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious m… read more

Similar categories in Julie Orringer's Can You Feel This? book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Weddings (Inheritance collection)

By: Alexander Chee

3.36

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

For Jack Cho, a fortysomething gay man, being able to marry someone he loves is so unfamiliar it’s … read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's The Weddings (Inheritance collection) book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Lion's Den

By: Anthony Marra

3.47

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

Exposing his father’s transgressions in a tell-all was the ethical, righteous—and profitable—thing … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Marra's The Lion's Den book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Finding an empty wheelchair in front of a lion enclosure is like finding a pair of shoes at the ocean’s edge. You might look to your left and your right, but in your heart you know the only way their…"

-Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

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22. Zenith Man

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Whatever had been going on inside the shuttered old house, the couple who lived there kept it to th… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haigh's Zenith Man book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. The Gift

By: Alison Gaylin

3.66

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a desperate mother to do when her child suddenly disappears? Anything it takes to keep the f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Gaylin's The Gift book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero

24. There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed

By: Edgar Cantero

2.90

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrill of a sleepover becomes sheer terror as kids voice their greatest fears into existence in… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Cantero's There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Treasure

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite

3.42

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly comic short story of class divide, the lives we invent, and the very real risks of preserv… read more

Similar categories in Oyinkan Braithwaite's Treasure book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Hannah-Beast by Jennifer  McMahon

26. Hannah-Beast

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.81

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

The fate of a lonely girl becomes part of a town’s shameful secret history in Thriller Award winner… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's Hannah-Beast book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Remedy

By: Adam Haslett

2.97

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a man with a body under siege—and the willingness to proceed with a cure so miraculous all one… read more

Similar categories in Adam Haslett's The Remedy book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Miao Dao by Joyce Carol Oates

28. Miao Dao

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.52

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

A girl comes of age with a vengeance—and help from a friend—in a tale of unnerving suspense from Na… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Miao Dao book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Oak Avenue by Brandi Reeds

29. Oak Avenue

By: Brandi Reeds

3.59

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

A young wife and mother—new to this town and to its secrets—learns just how much she doesn’t know i… read more

Similar categories in Brandi Reeds's Oak Avenue book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Anonymous by Uzodinma Iweala

30. Anonymous

By: Uzodinma Iweala

3.48

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through custom… read more

Similar categories in Uzodinma Iweala's Anonymous book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Will Williams by Namwali Serpell

31. Will Williams

By: Namwali Serpell

3.30

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

In the modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson' by the author of 'The Old drift,' a y… read more

Similar categories in Namwali Serpell's Will Williams book and Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Veronica Roth

3.86

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The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

Ann Leckie

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

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Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

John Scalzi

4.18

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Lisa Unger

4.04

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Lisa Unger

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