10 must-read classics books like Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories by Raymond Chandler

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Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

By: Raymond Chandler

3.39

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mys…

"Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay bank at whose edge a few unbeatable wild flowers clawed and hung on like naughty children who won’t go to bed."

-Raymond Chandler, Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

"Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay bank at whose edge a few unbeatable wild flowers clawed and hung on like naughty children who won’t go to bed."

-Raymond Chandler, Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

If you liked the classics plot in Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories by Raymond Chandler , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Lurking Fear

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.66

Format: 22 pages, ebook

"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman, Toinette Lippe

2. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • classics
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. Il bosco degli urogalli

By: Mario Rigoni Stern

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Il bosco degli urogallie il secondo libro di Mario Rigoni Stern. Raccoglie storie di cacciatori, di… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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  • fiction
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6. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Eight O'Clock in the Morning

By: Ray Faraday Nelson

3.77

Format: 134 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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8. Pickman's Model

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first publishe… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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9. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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10. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 book and Raymond Chandler's Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

  • fiction
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11. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook

12. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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13. Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1, Polity Universe #3)

By: Neal Asher

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Gridlinkedis a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Har… read more

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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

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15. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

16. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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17. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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18. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. One Day All This Will Be Yours

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky  - a smart, funny tale of time-trave… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Who’d have ever thought I’d find a soulmate in the end times? Not me, obviously, what with my trying my damnedest to eliminate the rest of the human race."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"I honestly think someone invented the time machine just so they could go grab a burger when the urge took them. Anyway, turns out saving the planet by eating soy was a bit of a non-starter given how …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap you…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

20. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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21. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.05

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

Cover of Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories by Raymond Chandler

22. Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

By: Raymond Chandler

3.39

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mys… read more

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  • classics
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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay …"

-Raymond Chandler, Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

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Mario Rigoni Stern

4.11

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

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Sophie Hannah

3.75

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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