16 Top short stories books like The Necessary Arthur by Garth Nix

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The Necessary Arthur

By: Garth Nix

3.75

Format: 41 pages, ebook

The Necessary Arthur, a Tor.com Original, is a delightful science fantasy novelette from internatio…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Necessary Arthur by Garth Nix , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't (Parasol Protectorate, #0.5) by Gail Carriger

1. The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't (Parasol Protectorate, #0.5)

By: Gail Carriger

3.62

Format: 32 pages, ebook

A short tale of mummies, werewolves, and well preserved felines set in the world of the Parasol Pro… read more

Similar categories in Gail Carriger's The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't (Parasol Protectorate, #0.5) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Ghoul Vendetta (SPI Files, #4)

By: Lisa Shearin

3.77

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Men in Black meets Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum in the fourth urban fantasy novel in the series… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Shearin's The Ghoul Vendetta (SPI Files, #4) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. Fairy Debt

By: Gail Carriger

4.17

Format: 78 pages, ebook

"I knew it would all end in tears the moment I saw the hat." Cups is a fairy with a problem. She ca… read more

Similar categories in Gail Carriger's Fairy Debt book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Spook Who Spoke Again (Flavia Albia Mystery, #2.5)

By: Lindsey Davis

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A short comic masterpiece from Lindsey Davis set in Ancient Rome and featuring Marcus Didius Falco,… read more

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5. Impersonations

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of hi… read more

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6. Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

Original Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Novelette || Oona's blood is a river delta blending east and… read more

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7. The Weight of Memories

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

3.71

Format: 498 pages, ebook

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and the forthcoming Death's Endcomes a … read more

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8. The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1-3)

By: Barry Hughart

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Omnibus edition including the three novels in the series. read more

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9. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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10. A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

By: Harry Connolly

3.80

Format: None pages, ebook

A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put… read more

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11. Danse de la Folie

By: Sherwood Smith

3.85

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A light-hearted Regency folly, starring Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life-but falls in l… read more

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12. Servant Mage

By: Kate Elliott

3.58

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists … read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Servant Mage book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.89

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Wer… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown (Wild Cards)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.95

Format: 30 pages, ebook

The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. In Carrie Vaughn's "The Thing… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown (Wild Cards) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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15. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

By: Daryl Gregory

3.91

Format: 42 pages, ebook

When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Gregory's Nine Last Days on Planet Earth book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexi…"

-Daryl Gregory, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

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16. Triquetra

By: Kirstyn McDermott

3.91

Format: 43 pages, ebook

"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between… read more

Similar categories in Kirstyn McDermott's Triquetra book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • retellings
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Necessary Arthur

By: Garth Nix

3.75

Format: 41 pages, ebook

The Necessary Arthur, a Tor.com Original, is a delightful science fantasy novelette from internatio… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • adventure
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • science fiction
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18. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Men, Women, and Chainsaws

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.94

Format: 37 pages, ebook

It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's b… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Men, Women, and Chainsaws book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) by Aliette de Bodard

22. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 122 pages, ebook

Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhe… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
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23. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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24. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Beyond the Dragon's Gate book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. The Dominion of Leviathan

By: Manish Melwani

3.84

Format: 48 pages, ebook

A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviat… read more

Similar categories in Manish Melwani's The Dominion of Leviathan book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

26. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • adventure
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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27. On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.87

Format: 40 pages, ebook

An academic's whimsical decision to take a DNA test leads her into uncharted territory, where she d… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"You can’t avoid the sea forever,"

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"You can’t win an argument with the sea."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"I guess interdimensional travel takes it out of you."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"If his tone were any more soaked in exasperation, it would be dripping."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

Cover of Fledglings (The Phoenix Feather #1) by Sherwood Smith

28. Fledglings (The Phoenix Feather #1)

By: Sherwood Smith

4.43

Format: 324 pages, ebook

In the grand tradition of martial arts fantasy tales, Fledglings begins twenty-five years ago, when… read more

Similar categories in Sherwood Smith's Fledglings (The Phoenix Feather #1) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • fantasy
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor

30. The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal

By: Jodi Taylor

4.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's and Time Police series - the or… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Governed by Whimsy (Songs of the Amaranthine #4) by Forthright .

31. Governed by Whimsy (Songs of the Amaranthine #4)

By: Forthright .

4.27

Format: 92 pages, ebook

His whims drove off her predecessors. Her whimsy drives him to distraction. To Ambrose P. Merrima… read more

Similar categories in Forthright .'s Governed by Whimsy (Songs of the Amaranthine #4) book and Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur

  • urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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