5 must-read fantasy books like M. R. James: The Complete Supernatural Stories by M.R. James

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M. R. James: The Complete Supernatural Stories

By: M.R. James

4.21

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s …

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1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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2. When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more

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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

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3. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archae… read more

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4. Endless Night

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more

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Cover of Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror by Anonymous, Andrew Lang, Sabine Baring-Gould, R. Murray Gilchrist, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hugh Lamb, Rhoda Broughton, Erckmann-Chatrian, Robert Barr, J.E. Preston Muddock, Grant Allen, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Jonas Lie, Edwin Lester Arnold, Dick Donovan, None

5. Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

By: Anonymous , Andrew Lang , Sabine Baring-Gould , R. Murray Gilchrist , Fitz-James O'Brien , Hugh Lamb , Rhoda Broughton , Erckmann-Chatrian , Robert Barr , J.E. Preston Muddock , Grant Allen , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward , Jonas Lie , Edwin Lester Arnold , Dick Donovan , None

4.29

Format: 256 pages,

Contents Foreword - Hugh Lamb Robert Barr - Purification Grant Allen - The Beckoning Hand Rhoda Bro… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler

6. The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

By: Otto Penzler

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. Edgar Award-winn… read more

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7. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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  • horror
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8. Personal (Jack Reacher, #19)

By: Lee Child

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reac… read more

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9. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

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10. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

11. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on the stairs on her dog, but she was convinced someone was trying… read more

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12. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

By: Dan Jones

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more

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13. Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

By: Lee Child

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has … read more

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14. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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15. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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16. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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17. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

18. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

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Cover of Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1) by L.J. Ross

19. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)

By: L.J. Ross

4.01

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more

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20. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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21. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris  Broad

22. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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23. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

24. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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25. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more

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  • horror
Cover of Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places #1) by Jeremy Bates

26. Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places #1)

By: Jeremy Bates

3.70

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

SUICIDE FOREST IS REAL - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast fo… read more

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  • horror
"You in the jungle, baby,"

-Jeremy Bates, Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places #1)

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27. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

3.62

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more

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"A cold death mask worn by a living man."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

Cover of The Haunting of Bechdel Mansion (A Riveting Haunted House Mystery, #1) by Roger Hayden

28. The Haunting of Bechdel Mansion (A Riveting Haunted House Mystery, #1)

By: Roger Hayden

3.95

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

A paranormal phenomenon, a mysterious curse, and an unsolved murder forty years in the making. A yo… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Cathedral of Bones (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #1) by J.G. Lewis

29. Cathedral of Bones (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #1)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury, 1226 A young pregnant woman is found tangled in reeds in the river Avon, her identity a … read more

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30. M. R. James: The Complete Supernatural Stories

By: M.R. James

4.21

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s … read more

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  • horror
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31. The Complete Supernatural Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.37

Format: 1961 pages, Kindle Edition

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prol… read more

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  • horror

12 best-selling horror books like M. R. James: The Complete Supernatural Stories by M.R. James

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4.29

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4.32

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