18 Top short stories books like Tough Times All Over by Joe Abercrombie

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Tough Times All Over

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.81

Format: 42 pages, ebook

Carcolf, courier and operative, is transporting a package through the underbelly of Sipani, a city …

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1. How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

By: Neil Gaiman

4.05

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"The Marquis de Carabas did not trust people. It was bad for business and it could set an unfortunate precedent. He did not trust his friends or his occasional lovers, and he certainly never trusted h…"

-Neil Gaiman, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

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2. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)

By: Scott Meyer

4.00

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, th… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Rogues by Gillian Flynn, Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Swanwick, Matthew Hughes, Garth Nix, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Steven Saylor, Cherie Priest, Patrick Rothfuss, Gardner Dozois, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Lynch, Connie Willis, Walter Jon Williams, Paul Cornell, Bradley Denton, Phyllis Eisenstein, Lisa Tuttle, David  Ball

3. Rogues

By: Gillian Flynn , Daniel Abraham , George R.R. Martin , Carrie Vaughn , Michael Swanwick , Matthew Hughes , Garth Nix , Joe Abercrombie , Neil Gaiman , Steven Saylor , Cherie Priest , Patrick Rothfuss , Gardner Dozois , Joe R. Lansdale , Scott Lynch , Connie Willis , Walter Jon Williams , Paul Cornell , Bradley Denton , Phyllis Eisenstein , Lisa Tuttle , David Ball

3.72

Format: None pages,

If you're a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection fro… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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4. The Tales of Alvin Maker: Grinning Man

By: Orson Scott Card

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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5. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

By: Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor

3.88

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient pa… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"Estaba harta de ser tan única."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"Some days simply lay on you like stones."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"...and he was absolutely not a selas sort."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"Her name was like an echo of an ache in her."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

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6. 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

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  • short stories
"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

7. Mitosis (The Reckoners, #1.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Steelheart may be dead, but Epics still plague Newcago and David and the Reckoners have vowed to fi… read more

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8. Sinbad

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.70

Format: None pages,

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9. All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.57

Format: 140 pages,

Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for alm… read more

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10. Snuff

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.35

Format: None pages,

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where n… read more

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11. Der brennende Mann

By: Joachim Körber , Tad Williams

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Im Land Osten Ard regierten einst die Sithi, eine edle und friedfertige Rasse, zauberkundig und fei… read more

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12. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

By: Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

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13. Long Chills and Case Dough

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.44

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

Long Chills and Case Dough is a previously unpublished short story, written just before Brandon pub… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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14. The Sunlit Man

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.34

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the … read more

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  • fantasy
"Try some curry powder next time. It has a much better flavor than tyranny. Less nutty."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"She knew how she liked to look. And she didn't care that others knew it was artificial. In expressing herself, the artificial became more authentic than the original."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all." "Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something el…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, s…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

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15. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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16. The Original

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.79

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Hugo Award-winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this exclusive aud… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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17. The Girl Who Wasn't There

By: Arvind Ethan David

3.12

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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18. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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19. Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.04

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

In the world of the Dispatchers, a natural or accidental death is an endpoint; a murder pushes the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"John Scalzi “I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza." "Because it's a Hawaiian pizza?" "Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple…"

-John Scalzi, Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

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20. White Sand, Volume 3 (White Sand, #3)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.65

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Underpowered and overwhelmed, Kenton tries to hold the Sand Masters together as forces political an… read more

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  • fantasy
"You are striding atop a very thin wall, my friend. Loyalty is a difficult thing to divide."

-Brandon Sanderson, White Sand, Volume 3 (White Sand, #3)

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21. White Sand, Volume 2 (White Sand, #2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.54

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell o… read more

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  • fantasy
"If it was the Sand Lord's will, I would have been there.' 'I... just cannot argue with that logic. It's... mind-blowing."

-Brandon Sanderson, White Sand, Volume 2 (White Sand, #2)

"I've always found one has to make time for words. If you don't have words, then people tend to see through to the really important things."

-Brandon Sanderson, White Sand, Volume 2 (White Sand, #2)

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22. A Year and a Day in Old Theradane

By: Scott Lynch

4.15

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Theradane, a city of deep magic, ruled by a council of eternally feuding wizards! A cit… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"What the hell did I just drink, anyway?"

-Scott Lynch, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane

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23. The Rogue Prince, or, a King's Brother

By: George R.R. Martin

3.74

Format: 33 pages, None

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  • fantasy
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24. Tough Times All Over

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.81

Format: 42 pages, ebook

Carcolf, courier and operative, is transporting a package through the underbelly of Sipani, a city … read more

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  • fantasy

25. Bent Twig

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.03

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • fantasy
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26. Diamonds from Tequila (Dagmar Shaw, #3.5)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.64

Format: None pages, ebook

Sean Makin was a washed-up child actor, until Dagmar Shaw made him a star. Now he's starring in a b… read more

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  • short stories

27. Tawny Petticoats

By: Michael Swanwick

3.03

Format: 60 pages, None

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  • fantasy
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28. Roaring Twenties

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.63

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

An invisible speakeasy, flappers and gangsters, hot action, cool jazz — and a whole lot of magic. I… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy

29. The Inn of the Seven Blessings

By: Matthew Hughes

3.31

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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30. The Lightning Tree

By: Patrick Rothfuss

3.96

Format: 93 pages, None

The Lightning Tree is a companion short story in The Kingkiller Chronicle series. It was first publ… read more

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  • fantasy
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31. How Old Holly Came to Be

By: Patrick Rothfuss

3.19

Format: 11 pages, ebook

How Old Holly Came to Be is a companion short story in The Kingkiller Chronicle series. It was firs… read more

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22 best-selling fantasy books like Tough Times All Over by Joe Abercrombie

Transform Your Habits

How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

Neil Gaiman

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)

Scott Meyer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Rogues

Gillian Flynn , Daniel Abraham , George R.R. Martin , Carrie Vaughn , Michael Swanwick , Matthew Hughes , Garth Nix , Joe Abercrombie , Neil Gaiman , Steven Saylor , Cherie Priest , Patrick Rothfuss , Gardner Dozois , Joe R. Lansdale , Scott Lynch , Connie Willis , Walter Jon Williams , Paul Cornell , Bradley Denton , Phyllis Eisenstein , Lisa Tuttle , David Ball

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Tales of Alvin Maker: Grinning Man

Orson Scott Card

3.63

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Transform Your Habits

Red Rising: Sons of Ares #3 (Sons of Ares, #3)

Pierce Brown , Rik Hoskin , Eli Powell

4.21

Transform Your Habits

New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

Robert Jordan

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

Joe Abercrombie

4.34

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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

4.21

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