15 must-read short stories books like Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury

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Pillar of Fire

By: Ray Bradbury

3.75

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

"Pillar of Fire" is classical space Sci-Fi short story written by the master of the genre, Ray Brad…

"He came out of the earth, hating. Hate was his father; hate was his mother."

-Ray Bradbury, Pillar of Fire

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Cover of Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) by Dorothy L. Sayers

1. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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2. The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy

By: Frank R. Stockton

3.94

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Story summary: In ancient times, a king devised a system of justice where guilt or innocence was de… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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3. Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Surely never such had existed before—a misshapen dwarf, with squinting eyes, distorted features, an… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"And to my young heart the idea of death came for the first time blended with that of joy."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"Revenge! — the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no l…"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

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4. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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5. The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

By: Alan W. Watts

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that … read more

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7. The Country of the Blind

By: H.G. Wells

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the A… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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9. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.88

Format: 242 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. An Italian count telephones his do… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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10. Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2)

By: John Buchan

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. The Citadel of Fear

By: Francis Stevens

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while … read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."

-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson

13. The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds

By: Neil Gaiman

4.43

Format: 303 pages, ebook

This is a story called "The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds". It was first published in 1984, in… read more

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14. The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Story from the Arabian Nights

By: Anonymous , Eric A. Kimmel , Will Hillenbrand

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Ali Baba hears, "Open, Sesame", his life is changed forever. read more

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15. October in the Chair

By: Neil Gaiman

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

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16. The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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18. Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

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19. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

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  • fiction
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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20. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

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21. The Lady with the Little Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

3.72

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"

-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

Cover of The Guy Who Died Twice (Detective D.D. Warren, #10.5) by Lisa Gardner

22. The Guy Who Died Twice (Detective D.D. Warren, #10.5)

By: Lisa Gardner

3.74

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren confronts the strangest case of her career in this exclusive eBook … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Let's Get Together

By: Isaac Asimov

3.68

Format: 18 pages, ebook

"Let's Get Together" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was origi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Sign of the Broken Sword:  A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton

24. The Sign of the Broken Sword: A Father Brown Mystery

By: G.K. Chesterton

3.39

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

"Well," resumed Father Brown, "it's not fair to say that the public impression is just what I've sa… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword: A Father Brown Mystery

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25. With the Buccaneers: The Original Short Story

By: Howard Pyle

3.11

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Although this narration has more particularly to do with the taking of the Spanish vice admiral in … read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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26. A Friend of Napoleon

By: Richard Connell

3.92

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
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27. The Dead and the Countess

By: Gertrude Atherton

3.22

Format: None pages, None

The dead sleep peacefully -- until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest wor… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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28. Sarga Rozsa: Pusztai Regeny a Krao

By: Mór Jókai

3.48

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

This Book Is In Hungarian. read more

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  • classics

29. Confessions of a Humorist

By: O. Henry

3.52

Format: None pages, None

Comment se jouer du destin quand on est un personnage de nouvelle ? read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Pillar of Fire

By: Ray Bradbury

3.75

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

"Pillar of Fire" is classical space Sci-Fi short story written by the master of the genre, Ray Brad… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"He came out of the earth, hating. Hate was his father; hate was his mother."

-Ray Bradbury, Pillar of Fire

Cover of The Man Who Disliked Cats by P.G. Wodehouse

31. The Man Who Disliked Cats

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.55

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • audiobook

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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy

Frank R. Stockton

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

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The Dragon and the Raven, or, The Days of King Alfred

G.A. Henty

3.90

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Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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Howard Pyle

4.07

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Rudyard Kipling

3.73

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