23 Best fiction books like The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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1. A Sicilian Romance

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

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2. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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3. Maurice

By: E.M. Forster

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Colour Out of Space and others

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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8. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

11. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • classics
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12. To Be Read at Dusk

By: Charles Dickens

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

13. The Cement Garden

By: Ian McEwan

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gains… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

15. Legion

By: William Peter Blatty

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from Th… read more

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16. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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17. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama book and Edgar Allan Poe's The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • fiction
  • horror
"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

18. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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19. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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20. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James , Anthony Curtis

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the windo… read more

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21. No Longer Human

By: Junji Ito

4.28

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's No Longer Human book and Edgar Allan Poe's The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

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22. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more

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"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

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23. The Warrior (Quest for Heroes, #2)

By: Stephen Aryan

3.71

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

The story of Kell Kressia continues in Book II of the gripping fantasy duology. Kell, two time savi… read more

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  • fiction
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24. チェンソーマン 16 [Chainsaw Man 16]

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.03

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

「普通」の生活を続けるか、チェンソーマンとして生きるのか…? 突きつけられた究極の2択を前に、心が定まらないデンジ。一方、キガから衝撃の事実を聞いたアサは!? 拡大するチェンソーマン教会、デンジに近… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuki Fujimoto's チェンソーマン 16 [Chainsaw Man 16] book and Edgar Allan Poe's The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Autumn in Sycamore Park (The Warm Days of Autumn, #1)

By: C.P. Ward

3.60

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a new romantic comedy series from CP Ward, author of Christmas at Marshmallow Café and… read more

Similar categories in C.P. Ward's Autumn in Sycamore Park (The Warm Days of Autumn, #1) book and Edgar Allan Poe's The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • fiction
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26. Medea

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more

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  • fiction
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medea

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27. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

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28. The Missing Girl

By: Shirley Jackson

3.55

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
Cover of Ghibliotheque: An Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli by Michael Leader

29. Ghibliotheque: An Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli

By: Michael Leader

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Based on the Ghibliotheque podcast, which leafs through the library of films from the world's great… read more

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30. 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

By: Kafka Asagiri

4.34

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

異能兵器により横浜消滅!? 原作者自身による小説版、待望の第4弾!! 盗賊捕縛の依頼を受けて探偵社の一行が訪れたのは、横浜近海を“航海する島”、スタンダード島。しかしそこでは今まさにテロリスト… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Soon, those barbarians will realize they chose the wrong place to try to play God."

-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

"I know I'm turning forty-three this year, but is it still okay for me to cry in public?"

-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

"I won't go back to the darkness! I am going to live! Is it really so wrong of me to want to live?!"

-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

"Ha-ha-ha! I never thought you'd be able to scare me like that! You've grown, Atsushi! The only way I knew how to reward you was by showing you my secret technique: Cardiac Arrest."

-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

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31. The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘True! Nerv… read more

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  • gothic
  • poetry
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime

16 Top classics books like The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Transform Your Habits

A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe

3.39

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Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

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Maurice

E.M. Forster

3.65

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

3.56

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Transform Your Habits

Spirited Away, Volume 1

Hayao Miyazaki , Yuji Oniki , Cindy Davis Hewitt , None

4.06

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Ponyo, Volume 1

Hayao Miyazaki

3.93

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Shuna's Journey

Hayao Miyazaki

4.34

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Enciclopædia Calcarea: Guida ragionata all'universo di Zerocalcare

Zerocalcare

3.99

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