17 must-read short stories books like Sentry by Fredric Brown

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Sentry

By: Fredric Brown

3.73

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In war, every infantryman has been there. He is wet, he is hungry and cold, and he is a long, long …

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Cover of El horror de Dunwich by H.P. Lovecraft, Aurelio Martínez Benito

1. El horror de Dunwich

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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2. Pythias

By: Frederik Pohl

3.44

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

PYTHIAS appeared in the February 1955 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Sure, Larry Connaught saved… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

3. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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4. The Egg

By: Andy Weir

3.41

Format: None pages, ebook

A short story about the universe. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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5. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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7. Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City (The New York Tetralogy, #1-4)

By: Neil Gaiman , Will Eisner

3.89

Format: None pages,

"An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. Henry." - Neil Gaiman With an unparalleled eye… read more

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8. Reluctant Genius

By: Henry Slesar

4.00

Format: None pages,

It is said that Life crawled up from the slime of the sea-bottoms and became Man because of inheren… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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9. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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10. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • science fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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11. Zen

By: Jerome Bixby , William Ashman

3.02

Format: None pages,

The twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, whose assignment was the asteroids. We were four years a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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12. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison

5.00

Format: 398 pages, ebook

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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13. Six Characters in Search of an Author

By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more

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14. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories

15. Star Mother

By: Robert F. Young

3.65

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

16. Examination Day

By: Henry Slesar

3.22

Format: 402 pages,

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17. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • short stories
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

18. It's a Small Solar System

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages,

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19. All Cats Are Gray

By: Andre Norton

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in d… read more

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20. Navy Day

By: Harry Harrison , Gregg Margarite

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Audiobook

The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant anything, in… read more

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21. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

22. Old Rambling House

By: Frank Herbert

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Old Rambling House is a short story notable for its atmosphere and the dystopian multiverse in whic… read more

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23. Novecento. Un monologo

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more

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24. This is Klon Calling

By: Walter J. Sheldon

3.24

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

One sure way to live dangerously is to become a practical joker. Should you have any doubts about i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. Egocentric Orbit

By: John Cory

3.06

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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26. Beyond Pandora

By: Robert J. Martin

3.27

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Short Story, Science Fiction, Post-1930 The ideal way to deal with a pest—any menace—is, of cou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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27. Project Hush

By: William Tenn

3.18

Format: 20 pages, Hardcover

We were stuck with calling it Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to ensure secrecy. A c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. The Demi-Urge

By: Thomas M. Disch

2.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As if one mystery of creation weren’t enough, there was the myth of the “Demi-Urge.” A classic SF s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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29. Sentry

By: Fredric Brown

3.73

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In war, every infantryman has been there. He is wet, he is hungry and cold, and he is a long, long … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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30. The Fourth Invasion

By: Henry Josephs

3.17

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

31. No Pets Allowed

By: M.A. Cummings

3.25

Format: None pages, ebook

Nicht-exklusives Verkaufsrecht für: Gesamte Welt. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

16 must-read science fiction books like Sentry by Fredric Brown

Transform Your Habits

El horror de Dunwich

H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Pythias

Frederik Pohl

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Egg

Andy Weir

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Reluctant Genius

Henry Slesar

4.00

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12 Top fiction books like Star Mother by Robert F. Young

Transform Your Habits

Keep Out

Fredric Brown

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Zen

Jerome Bixby , William Ashman

3.02

Transform Your Habits

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Door

Philip K. Dick

4.04

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