19 Top fiction books like Pretty Good Neighbor by Jeffrey Ford

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Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th…

If you liked the fiction plot in Pretty Good Neighbor by Jeffrey Ford , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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2. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Format: 32 pages, ebook

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The River and the World Remade

By: E. Lily Yu

3.47

Format: 13 pages, ebook

When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best tog… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Salt Water

By: Eugenia Triantafyllou

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more

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  • short stories
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6. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

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7. The Sound of Reindeer

By: Lyndsie Manusos

2.78

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she d… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsie Manusos's The Sound of Reindeer book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Counterworld

By: James Bradley

2.51

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more

Similar categories in James Bradley's The Counterworld book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • horror
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10. The Job at the End of the World

By: Ray Nayler

3.76

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. How to Move Spheres and Influence People

By: Marko Kloos

3.95

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpower… read more

Similar categories in Marko Kloos's How to Move Spheres and Influence People book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

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13. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Puppetmaster book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. After the Animal Flesh Beings

By: Brian Evenson

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's After the Animal Flesh Beings book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Ceffo

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.69

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Ceffo book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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17. Form 8774-D

By: Alex Irvine

3.91

Format: 54 pages, ebook

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more

Similar categories in Alex Irvine's Form 8774-D book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. 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 Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener

By: Ramsey Shehadeh

3.68

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera… read more

Similar categories in Ramsey Shehadeh's The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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20. The Star-Bear

By: Michael Swanwick

3.31

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's The Star-Bear book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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21. Jack O'Dander

By: Priya Sharma

3.70

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . … read more

Similar categories in Priya Sharma's Jack O'Dander book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • horror
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22. The Three O’Clock Dragon

By: John Wiswell

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's The Three O’Clock Dragon book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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23. Liminal Spaces

By: Maureen F. McHugh

3.28

Format: 31 pages, ebook

An engineer who frequently travels for her job, suddenly finds herself in airports other than the o… read more

Similar categories in Maureen F. McHugh's Liminal Spaces book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. The Canadian Miracle

By: Cory Doctorow

3.61

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious ele… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Canadian Miracle book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.94

Format: 32 pages, ebook

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4) book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Headhunting

By: Rich Larson

3.61

Format: 36 pages, ebook

A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Headhunting book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • horror
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28. What It Means To Be A Car

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.61

Format: 15 pages, ebook

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more

Similar categories in James Patrick Kelly's What It Means To Be A Car book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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29. Recoveries

By: Susan Palwick

3.61

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Two women who have been friends since they were children—one a recovering alcoholic brought up by p… read more

Similar categories in Susan Palwick's Recoveries book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Set in Stone

By: K.J. Parker

3.97

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

A sculptor struggles when he is commanded to perpetuate the lies of a deceitful and cruel king... read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Set in Stone book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories
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31. The Gulmohar of Mehranpur

By: Amal Singh

3.33

Format: 24 pages, ebook

In the small city of Mehranpur, the Nawab suspects there may be a connection between the slow wasti… read more

Similar categories in Amal Singh's The Gulmohar of Mehranpur book and Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor

  • short stories

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Alastair Reynolds

3.83

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3.98

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3.47

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4.04

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4.02

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