13 Best short stories books like The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

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The Test

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.83

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Test by Sylvain Neuvel , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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3. The Shootout Solution (Genrenauts, #1)

By: Michael R. Underwood

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leah Tang just died on stage. Well, not literally. Not yet. Leah's stand-up career isn't going well… read more

Similar categories in Michael R. Underwood's The Shootout Solution (Genrenauts, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction

4. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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5. The Grownup

By: Gillian Flynn

3.56

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless frau… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Flynn's The Grownup book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

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6. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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7. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

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8. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's Comfort Me with Apples book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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9. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

Similar categories in Naben Ruthnum's Helpmeet book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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10. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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11. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's Foe book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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12. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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13. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's We Spread book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

Cover of The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

14. The Test

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.83

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more

Similar categories in Sylvain Neuvel's The Test book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

Similar categories in Amber Tamblyn's Any Man book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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16. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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19. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. Disseverment: A Horror Story

By: Z.C. Krol

3.77

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

When Tyler receives a mysterious letter in the mail from a man claiming to be his stepfather, he is… read more

Similar categories in Z.C. Krol's Disseverment: A Horror Story book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Monster of Elendhaven

By: Jennifer Giesbrecht

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven book and Sylvain Neuvel's The Test

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Unwise to dream of death in a world where someone has the power to make those dreams come true."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"If Johann was going to be a Thing with a name, then from now on he would be a Thing with power, too."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

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