8 best-selling short stories books like Family by Joyce Carol Oates

Family

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.23

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

1. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

Cover of Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

2. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • short stories
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

Cover of Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville

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

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Cover of The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2) by China Miéville

4. The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque … read more

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Cover of Sandkings by George R.R. Martin

5. Sandkings

By: George R.R. Martin

3.58

Format: 448 pages,

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  • short stories
Cover of The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson

6. The Brotherhood of Mutilation

By: Brian Evenson

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • short stories

7. Bloodchild

By: Octavia E. Butler

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more

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  • short stories

8. Tainaron: Mail from Another City

By: Leena Krohn , Hildi Hawkins

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. Nominated for the prest… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Stephen        King, Haruki Murakami, Jeff VanderMeer, George R.R. Martin, William Gibson, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, Franz Kafka, Ann VanderMeer, Michael Chabon, Bob Leman

9. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

By: Stephen King , Haruki Murakami , Jeff VanderMeer , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Kelly Link , Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake , Franz Kafka , Ann VanderMeer , Michael Chabon , Bob Leman

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a co… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez

10. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

By: Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez

4.15

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform… read more

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"Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end."

-Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

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11. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

Cover of Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

12. Cyclopedia Exotica

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

"Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentat… read more

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13. The Hungry House

By: Robert Bloch

3.59

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
Cover of The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be by Gahan Wilson

14. The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be

By: Gahan Wilson

4.11

Format: 20 pages, ebook

https://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/wilson/index.html Fiction, Shor… read more

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15. The Genius of Assassins

By: Michael Cisco

3.67

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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16. The Snow Pavilion

By: Angela Carter

3.12

Format: 20 pages, None

First published in Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (1995). read more

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17. The Boy In The Tree

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.44

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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18. A Redress for Andromeda

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.32

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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19. Family

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.23

Format: None pages, None

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20. In The Lion's Den

By: Steve Duffy

4.40

Format: None pages, None

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21. Little Lambs

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.75

Format: None pages, None

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18 best-selling short stories books like The Hungry House by Robert Bloch

Transform Your Habits

Axolotl

Julio Cortázar

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Colazione da Tiffany

Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Other Side of the Mountain

Michel Bernanos , Elaine P. Halperin

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

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