6 best-selling short stories books like Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall

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Sudden Traveller

By: Sarah Hall

3.57

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARDWINNER OF AN O.HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION The se…

If you liked the short stories plot in Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Long Drop

By: Denise Mina

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A stand-alone true crime thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole

2. Every Day Is for the Thief

By: Teju Cole

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spo…"

-Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief

Cover of Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Gahan Wilson, Diana Wynne Jones, Saki, Larry Niven, Maria Dahvana Headley, Avram Davidson, Peter S. Beagle, Samuel R. Delany, Anthony Boucher, E. Lily Yu, E. Nesbit, Nalo Hopkinson, Frank R. Stockton, None

3. Unnatural Creatures

By: Neil Gaiman , Nnedi Okorafor , Gahan Wilson , Diana Wynne Jones , Saki , Larry Niven , Maria Dahvana Headley , Avram Davidson , Peter S. Beagle , Samuel R. Delany , Anthony Boucher , E. Lily Yu , E. Nesbit , Nalo Hopkinson , Frank R. Stockton , None

3.88

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only i… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's Unnatural Creatures book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You're playing with fire," she warned him. "That's how I know I'm alive."

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is alw…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I sa…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I sa…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

Cover of Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1) by Quentin Bates, Lilja Sigurðardóttir

4. Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1)

By: Quentin Bates , Lilja Sigurðardóttir

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A young mother resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, as she struggles to keep custody of her s… read more

Similar categories in Quentin Bates's Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1) book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • fiction
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5. Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly … read more

Similar categories in Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • short stories
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Reservoir 13

By: Jon McGregor

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Abandon Me: Memoirs

By: Melissa Febos

3.64

Format: 221 pages,

For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more

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8. A Kestrel for a Knave

By: Barry Hines

3.60

Format: 253 pages,

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more

Similar categories in Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • fiction

9. The Rift

By: Nina Allan

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were close, but as they grow older, a rift develops … read more

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10. Waterland

By: Graham Swift

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Unknown Binding

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunte… read more

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11. Ghost Summer

By: Tananarive Due

4.20

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

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12. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's August Blue book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

13. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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15. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Flames book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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16. Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Rizzio book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • fiction
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17. Ghost Wood Song

By: Erica Waters

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sawkill Girls meets Beautiful Creatures in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between re… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's Ghost Wood Song book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I'm as restless as the ghosts today."

-Erica Waters, Ghost Wood Song

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18. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Book of Mother

By: Violaine Huisman

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet … read more

Similar categories in Violaine Huisman's The Book of Mother book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it."

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

"Colava a picco, senza più legami all'infuori delle due figlie impotenti che la guardavano andare a fondo insieme ai sacchi della spazzatura pieni di vestiti e di scarpe, che si inabissavano come la s…"

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

"La mamma non conosceva la discesa morbida, la pista verde per lei non esisteva, se andava bene era rossa incendio, se andava male nero estintore. Allora non restava che vedere se si poteva andare più…"

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

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20. The Temple House Vanishing

By: Rachel Donohue

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The New York Times  Best Thrillers of 2021 "Steamily atmospheric . . . A twisted Gothic tale, emoti… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Donohue's The Temple House Vanishing book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To create art is to go on a journey inwards. You can have the potential to find and express what you discover on this journey, regardless of the external circumstances in which you may find yourself."

-Rachel Donohue, The Temple House Vanishing

Cover of Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall

21. Sudden Traveller

By: Sarah Hall

3.57

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARDWINNER OF AN O.HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION The se… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller book and Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • travel
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

18 best-selling fiction books like Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall

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The Long Drop

Denise Mina

3.39

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Every Day Is for the Thief

Teju Cole

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Unnatural Creatures

Neil Gaiman , Nnedi Okorafor , Gahan Wilson , Diana Wynne Jones , Saki , Larry Niven , Maria Dahvana Headley , Avram Davidson , Peter S. Beagle , Samuel R. Delany , Anthony Boucher , E. Lily Yu , E. Nesbit , Nalo Hopkinson , Frank R. Stockton , None

3.88

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Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1)

Quentin Bates , Lilja Sigurðardóttir

3.80

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21 Best fiction books like The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman

Transform Your Habits

Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Love in the Big City

Sang Young Park

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Elena Knows

Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

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