7 best-selling anthologies books like I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott

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I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

By: Julianna Baggott

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

“Reading this story collection is like stepping in front of a fun house mirror…Julianna Baggott’s w…

"And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!"

-Julianna Baggott, I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

"And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!"

-Julianna Baggott, I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

If you liked the anthologies plot in I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1)

By: Katie MacAlister

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The author of The Corset Diaries returns to the realm of the paranormal in this sexy, funny romance… read more

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  • fantasy
"What do you know about dragons?"

-Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1)

"Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed."

-Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1)

"You’re not related to the Three Stooges are you? ‘Cause I could swear this escape scene is one of theirs."

-Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1)

"What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis!"

-Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1)

2. Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

By: Billy Graham

4.21

Format: 324 pages,

"I never thought I would live to be this old. read more

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3. The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac

By: Sharma Shields

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A dark, fantastical, multi-generational tale about a family whose patriarch is consumed by the hunt… read more

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4. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

By: Tananarive Due

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a my…"

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

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5. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Even If the Sky Is Falling

By: Taj McCoy

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

It’s the end of the world as they know it—or so they think… When an international warning siren acc… read more

Similar categories in Taj McCoy's Even If the Sky Is Falling book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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9. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate Folk's Out There book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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11. Lilith

By: Nikki Marmery

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

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12. The Possibilities

By: Yael Goldstein-Love

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel tha… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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14. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

By: Erin Carlson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more

Similar categories in Erin Carlson's No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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16. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

Cover of The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2) by Lev A.C. Rosen

17. The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

4.17

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks―once you have finally foun… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. You Always Come Back

By: Emily Smith

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of Kathleen Barber and Julia Heaberlin comes an electrifying debut suspense that pits t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

By: Meredith Bagby

4.59

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Bagby's The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • audiobook
Cover of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

21. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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22. I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

By: Julianna Baggott

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

“Reading this story collection is like stepping in front of a fun house mirror…Julianna Baggott’s w… read more

Similar categories in Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!"

-Julianna Baggott, I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

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23. Roy: The Most Chaotic Midlife Crisis in Cosmic History (Puki Horpocket Presents #1)

By: Zachry Wheeler

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

* B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree * Readers' Favorite® 5-Star Selection One lonely plumber. One bad … read more

Similar categories in Zachry Wheeler's Roy: The Most Chaotic Midlife Crisis in Cosmic History (Puki Horpocket Presents #1) book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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24. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman by Molly Lynch

25. The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman

By: Molly Lynch

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fates and Furies meets Melancholia in this ominous and absorbing debut novel about marriage and mot… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. At Midnight

By: Dahlia Adler

3.42

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
Cover of Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

27. Tell Us No Secrets

By: Siena Sterling

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls’ boarding school, will leave you breathless until the… read more

Similar categories in Siena Sterling's Tell Us No Secrets book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"[...] female friendships are intense at that age. The interesting thing is, they still are. It doesn’t matter what age you are, women can still get jealous of each other, all that crap. Maybe it’s be…"

-Siena Sterling, Tell Us No Secrets

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28. Halfway

By: Michael Honnah

3.55

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Leading the field of artificial intelligence, Halfway, a subsidiary of Soul-Tech, provides customer… read more

Similar categories in Michael Honnah's Halfway book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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30. Cupid Calling

By: Viano Oniomoh

4.19

Format: 437 pages, ebook

Ejiro Odavwaro wants to fall in love. Obiora Anozie wants a free vacation. Both hope they’ll find w… read more

Similar categories in Viano Oniomoh's Cupid Calling book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
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31. The Most Important Thing Happening

By: Mark Steele

3.65

Format: 386 pages, ebook

Fantastical Stories of Timeless Truths A boardwalk peddler selling one ounce of God. A gentle m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Steele's The Most Important Thing Happening book and Julianna Baggott's I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

26 Best fiction books like I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Even If the Sky Is Falling

Taj McCoy

3.43

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17 Best audiobook books like The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby

Transform Your Habits

I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

Judy Greer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster

Kevin Cook

4.26

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