5 Best short stories books like Lost in the Archives by E. Saxey

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Lost in the Archives

By: E. Saxey

4.50

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Stories as historical oddities, some set in parallel pasts, and others are excursions into the daun…

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1. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • science fiction
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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2. 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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  • science fiction
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3. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

4. Vintage: A Ghost Story

By: Steve Berman

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

In a small New Jersey town a lonely boy walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of… read more

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5. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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6. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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7. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

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  • science fiction
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9. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • science fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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10. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

By:

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam… read more

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  • science fiction
"Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked"."

-, Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

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11. Pet (Pet, #1)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose… read more

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"Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

" What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole probl…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"Bitter knew her name was heavy but she hadn't minded because it was honest. That was something she'd taught Jam - that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest. You could see thing…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

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12. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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  • short stories
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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13. Cryptid Club

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Do you hate social gatherings? Dodge cameras? Enjoy staying up just a little too late at night? You… read more

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14. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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15. Reckless (Reckless, #1)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since … read more

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16. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

By: Eric LaRocca

3.22

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more

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  • short stories
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17. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

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"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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18. Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo

3.68

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more

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"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

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19. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.12

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more

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"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

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20. Family Business

By: Jonathan Sims

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything. But then she ge… read more

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21. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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22. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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  • science fiction
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23. The Path of Thorns

By: A.G. Slatter

4.00

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more

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"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."

-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

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24. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

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25. The Wingspan of Severed Hands

By: Joanna Koch

3.91

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Three Women, One Battle A world gone mad. Cities abandoned. Dreams invade waking minds. An invis… read more

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  • science fiction
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26. Sleep Alone

By: J.A.W. McCarthy

3.83

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

For the past six years, Ronnie has worked selling merch for a perpetually touring band. Late nights… read more

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27. Sisters of the Crimson Vine

By: P.L. McMillan

4.31

Format: 110 pages, ebook

John Ainsworth nearly died in that car crash. Soon he'll learn there are worse fates. After a bruta… read more

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28. Hybrid Heart

By: Iori Kusano

4.00

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A pop idol in near future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past. … read more

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  • science fiction
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29. Lost in the Archives

By: E. Saxey

4.50

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Stories as historical oddities, some set in parallel pasts, and others are excursions into the daun… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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30. Changes in the Land

By: Matthew Cheney

4.20

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

The cycle of life is the cycle of death. In life is our death, in death our life. In our life is th… read more

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3.42

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3.26

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