14 best-selling short stories books like The Year of Spaghetti by Haruki Murakami

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The Year of Spaghetti

By: Haruki Murakami

3.84

Format: 4 pages, None

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Cover of The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2) by Edgar Allan Poe

1. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.97

Format: 49 pages, ebook

".. Marie Roget" is often subtitled "A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is a short stor… read more

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"Разумът търси пътя към истината чрез поставяне на очебийното над обичайното."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Целта на нашите вестници е по-скоро да правят сензации, отколкото да помагат за откриване на истината."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

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2. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

Format: None pages,

In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more

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  • short stories
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5. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • short stories
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7. In a Grove

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

"In a Grove" (Sou noZhong , Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, first appearing… read more

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Cover of A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, Kevin Blahut, None, Helen Vlcnovska

8. 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
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9. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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10. Metzengerstein

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.04

Format: None pages,

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitz… read more

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  • short stories

11. The Spider's Thread

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.95

Format: 145 pages,

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12. Short Story Collections by Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, the Elephant Vanishes, After the Quake

By: Books LLC

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more

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13. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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14. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more

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"I want to suffer so that I may love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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15. The Orange Girl

By: James Anderson , Jostein Gaarder

3.91

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, bu… read more

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"We are the universe."

-James Anderson, The Orange Girl

"أن الأطفال يمكلون حساً مرهفاً للعدل"

-James Anderson, The Orange Girl

"Imao sam oči samo za ono čega nije bilo."

-James Anderson, The Orange Girl

"I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow."

-James Anderson, The Orange Girl

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16. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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17. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

18. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Stephen Marlowe

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in America… read more

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19. Adventure of the Abbey Grange (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, #12)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Walter Covell

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Audible Audio

"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir A… read more

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20. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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21. The Year of Spaghetti

By: Haruki Murakami

3.84

Format: 4 pages, None

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13 Best fiction books like Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Tomb

H.P. Lovecraft

3.51

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Hypnos

H.P. Lovecraft

3.42

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3.43

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