10 Best short stories books like Schrödinger’s Cat by Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover of Schrödinger’s Cat by Ursula K. Le Guin

Schrödinger’s Cat

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.33

Format: None pages, None

First published in Universe 5 (1974) ed. Terry Carr.

If you liked the short stories plot in Schrödinger’s Cat by Ursula K. Le Guin , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Prophet's Hair

By: Salman Rushdie

3.60

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasur… read more

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  • short stories
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2. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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3. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • short stories
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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4. Aurora Leigh

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.74

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

This verse-novel tells the story of a female writer, balancing work and love. It is and based on El… read more

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"Italy/Is one thing, England one."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Good aims not always make good books."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"The world of books is still the world."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest..."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

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5. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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6. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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7. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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8. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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9. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

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10. Howl

By: Allen Ginsberg , Eric Drooker

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Now a Major Motion Picture First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterp… read more

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11. Roman Fever

By: Edith Wharton

3.33

Format: 170 pages,

While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic riva… read more

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  • short stories
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12. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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13. The Swimmer

By: John Cheever

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more

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  • short stories

14. An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

By: Thomas Gray

3.97

Format: 434 pages,

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15. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

16. Diving Into the Wreck

By: Adrienne Rich

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more

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17. Translations

By: Brian Friel

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more

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18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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20. The Dumb Waiter

By: Harold Pinter

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more

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21. The Price

By: Neil Gaiman , None

4.42

Format: None pages, audio/video

Online fiction. Animated short story narrated by the author. From SF Signal: In 2006, filmmaker Chr… read more

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22. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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23. Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more

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24. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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25. Cat's Eye

By: Margaret Atwood

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city… read more

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26. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • short stories
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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27. Fence, Vol. 2

By: C.S. Pacat

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Combines Issues #5-8. Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fe… read more

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28. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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  • short stories
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29. Sweat

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.77

Format: 9 pages, None

The short story Sweat by American author Zora Neale Hurston was first published in 1926 in Fire!!, … read more

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  • short stories
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30. Woman Hollering Creek

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.02

Format: 9 pages, None

"...already did he divine the morning his daughter would raise her hand over her eyes, look south, … read more

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  • short stories
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31. Schrödinger’s Cat

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.33

Format: None pages, None

First published in Universe 5 (1974) ed. Terry Carr. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

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3.89

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3.98

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