15 Best fantasy books like And Go Like This: Stories by John Crowley

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And Go Like This: Stories

By: John Crowley

4.05

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

And Go Like This collects thirteen stories from a master of all trades. Reading John Crowley’s …

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1. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

Similar categories in Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

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2. Là-Bas

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more

Similar categories in Joris-Karl Huysmans's Là-Bas book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
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3. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Coetzee's Brighton Rock book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
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5. A High Wind in Jamaica

By: Francine Prose , Richard Hughes

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in E… read more

Similar categories in Francine Prose's A High Wind in Jamaica book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Here

By: Richard McGuire

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more

Similar categories in Richard McGuire's Here book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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8. The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection

By: Robert Silverberg , Avram Davidson , Grania Davis

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cran… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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9. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

10. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Bruno Schulz's Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

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11. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

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12. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

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13. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction

14. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

15. The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

By: Joscelyn Godwin , Johann Valentin Andreae , None

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, often looked upon as the third Rosicrucian manifesto… read more

Similar categories in Joscelyn Godwin's The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

16. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

Similar categories in Michael Hulse's The Rings of Saturn book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

17. The Long Ships

By: Frans G. Bengtsson , Michael Meyer

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The book is set in the late 10th century & follows the adventures of Orm ("serpent"), called "Red" … read more

Similar categories in Frans G. Bengtsson's The Long Ships book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

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18. White Fang

By: Jack London , K.A. Applegate

4.02

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he … read more

Similar categories in Jack London's White Fang book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Các sự vật không phải bao giờ cũng đúng như vẻ bề ngoài."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out."

-Jack London, White Fang

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19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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20. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

Similar categories in Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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22. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Liberation Day book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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23. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

Similar categories in Simon Jimenez's The Spear Cuts Through Water book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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24. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.15

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

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26. My Brother's Keeper

By: Tim Powers

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONT Ë SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT. This is a ghost story. It… read more

Similar categories in Tim Powers's My Brother's Keeper book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual (Megg, Mogg and Owl)

By: Simon Hanselmann

3.70

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the once ubiquitous British hardback annuals comes the Werewolf Jones & Sons De… read more

Similar categories in Simon Hanselmann's Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual (Megg, Mogg and Owl) book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fiction
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28. After Many a Summer

By: Tim Powers

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

After Many a Summer, a magisterial new novella from Tim Powers, borrows its title from a line in Te… read more

Similar categories in Tim Powers's After Many a Summer book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • fantasy
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29. Lure

By: Lane Milburn

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this SF graphic novel, a group of idealistic young artists from Earth are commissioned to collab… read more

Similar categories in Lane Milburn's Lure book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. And Go Like This: Stories

By: John Crowley

4.05

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

And Go Like This collects thirteen stories from a master of all trades. Reading John Crowley’s … read more

Similar categories in John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories book and John Crowley's And Go Like This: Stories

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

23 Best fiction books like And Go Like This: Stories by John Crowley

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The Halloween Tree

Ray Bradbury

3.78

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Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

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Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

China Miéville

3.80

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Brighton Rock

J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

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9 Best fiction books like Brighton Rock by J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

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A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

3.76

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Brighton Rock

J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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