If you liked the short stories plot in Dream Cargoes by J.G. Ballard , here is a list of 19 books like this:
1. The Shining Girls
By: Lauren Beukes
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. "The future is not as loud as wa… read more
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- fiction
"Six foot eight and all asshole."-Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
"Only other people can make you feel real."-Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
"She laughs, and that's really all he wanted."-Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
"She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams"-Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
2. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote
By: Jorge Luis Borges
3.64
Format: 322 pages,
Pierre Menard, el otro autor del Quijote, no quiere reversionar el Quijote, tampoco pretende escrib… read more
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"It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for example, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX): ...truth, whose mother is history, r…"-Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. The Cop And The Anthem
By: O. Henry , Mark Bucci , O'Henry
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When all of Soapy's efforts to get himself arrested fail, overhearing a hymn at a nearby church cau… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
5. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
By: M.R. James
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more
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- short stories
- fiction
6. The Hare and the Tortoise
By: Aesop , Shirley-Anne Carver
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When the speedy hare teases the slow and steady tortoise, he is challenged to a race. read more
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8. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
By: Stephen Crane , Frank Crocitto , from the story by Stephen Crane Frank Crocitto
4.18
Format: 213 pages,
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- fiction
9. A Hunger Artist
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska
3.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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- fiction
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12. Babylon Revisited
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more
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13. Moxyland
By: Lauren Beukes
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living … read more
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16. The Rocking Horse Winner
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Unknown Binding
The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. The story describes a young middle-cl… read more
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17. Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend
By: P.G. Wodehouse , None
4.27
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
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18. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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- fiction
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
19. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
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21. My First Goose
By: Isaac Babel
3.40
Format: None pages, None
Après l'arrestation de Babel en 1939, un interdit absolu a pesé sur l'homme et sur son oeuvre. Son … read more
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- fiction
22. The Last Mohican
By: Bernard Malamud
3.36
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
23. The Smallest Woman in the World
By: Clarice Lispector
3.63
Format: None pages, None
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"Not to be devoured is the secret objective of a whole existence."-Clarice Lispector, The Smallest Woman in the World
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25. A Married Man's Story
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.34
Format: None pages, None
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"Han rakte armene ned og tog hendes lommetørklæde op. Uden at tage øjnene fra hendes ansigt trak han igen kniven ud af skeden, og svøbte det lille lette stykke kammerdug omkring det lange knivsblad."-Isak Dinesen, The Ring
"Idet hun forsigtigt havde banet sig vej gennem græsset, da hun med ét kommet til en lysning midt inde i det, en ganske lille åben plads, som en alkove med gyldengrønne omhæng. Hun havde pludselig føl…"-Isak Dinesen, The Ring
27. Mary Postgate
By: Rudyard Kipling
2.85
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Of Miss Mary Postgate, Lady McCausland wrote that she was 'thoroughly conscientious, tidy, companio… read more
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28. A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser
By: Robert Walser
4.03
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Youn… read more
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29. Unutulmuş Düşler
By: Stefan Zweig
3.73
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig Unutulmuş Düşler’de, o benzersiz üslübuyla, ihtiraslarının peşinden gidenleri, isimler… read more
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30. Snow Crash
By: Neal Stephenson
4.02
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more
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"They made data a controlled substance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
