21 Top short stories books like The Design by China Miéville

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The Design

By: China Miéville

3.46

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corps…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Design by China Miéville , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's The Hunger book and China Miéville's The Design

  • horror
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Beautiful and Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more

Similar categories in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned book and China Miéville's The Design

  • fiction
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3. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)

By: Mira Grant

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5) book and China Miéville's The Design

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

4. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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5. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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6. Tough Love (Stripped, #0.5)

By: Skye Warren

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the sacrifices we make for love... I sneak out of my room every night. My father's gu… read more

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7. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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8. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's Comfort Me with Apples book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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9. Giving Up The Ghost

By: Dean Rasmussen

3.46

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping paranormal thriller to rattle your nerves… A protective nurse pays a visit to an elde… read more

Similar categories in Dean Rasmussen's Giving Up The Ghost book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
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10. Cold, Silent, and Dark

By: Kary English

3.25

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A woman lures her lover to a dark, watery death. Time: 5 minutes read more

Similar categories in Kary English's Cold, Silent, and Dark book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Clown Brigade

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 100 pages, Audiobook

It’s a brand-new day for Kyle: He’s flying across the country to meet a woman he connected with onl… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Clown Brigade book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and China Miéville's The Design

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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13. The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros

4.16

Format: 156 pages, ebook

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more

Similar categories in Manon Steffan Ros's The Blue Book of Nebo book and China Miéville's The Design

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

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14. Flayed Ed

By: Richard Kadrey

3.29

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

The true story of Ed Gein, or is it? Time: 7 minutes read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's Flayed Ed book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. My Body, Herself

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.18

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A woman learns that death is not the loneliest thing. Time: 13 minutes read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's My Body, Herself book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Guy at The Wedding

By: Katherine Center

4.05

Format: None pages, Audiobook

It's the story of the night Jake and Helen (the main characters in Happiness for Beginners) first m… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Guy at The Wedding book and China Miéville's The Design

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Daddy

By: Victor LaValle

3.58

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A father vows to protect his son from the unknown intruder on the roof... read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Daddy book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

18. Emergency Landing

By: Seanan McGuire

4.08

Format: None pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Emergency Landing book and China Miéville's The Design

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Don't Turn on the Lights

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.45

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights? Time: 15 minutes read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Don't Turn on the Lights book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Atrocities

By: Jeremy C. Shipp

3.19

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Jeremy Shipp brings you The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education W… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy C. Shipp's The Atrocities book and China Miéville's The Design

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Midnight Caller

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.89

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

Who will answer a desperate call for help? Time: 10 minutes read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Midnight Caller book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Pond

By: Paul Tremblay

2.83

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

Childhood's end is dead as a wish that never came true... Time: 4 minutes read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pond book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. A Life That Is Not Mine

By: Kristi DeMeester

3.30

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A woman spirals as her life descends into a never-ending night. Time: 26 minutes read more

Similar categories in Kristi DeMeester's A Life That Is Not Mine book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. In Sheep's Clothing

By: Molly Tanzer

3.77

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

When a strange epidemic wipes out most of humanity, desperate times call for desperate measures. … read more

Similar categories in Molly Tanzer's In Sheep's Clothing book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Was She Wicked? Was She Good?

By: M. Rickert

3.49

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

Not all anniversaries are happy occasions. One family copes with the damage that remains after bein… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's Was She Wicked? Was She Good? book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. It Washed Up

By: Joe R. Lansdale

2.95

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A creature emerges from the sea. It will not return alone. Time: 6 minutes read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's It Washed Up book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Beware Of Owner

By: Chuck Wendig

3.32

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

Trespassers have to learn their lesson... read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Beware Of Owner book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. The Design

By: China Miéville

3.46

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corps… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's The Design book and China Miéville's The Design

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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29. This Guy

By: Chuck Wendig

3.29

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A man begins losing time, but the one thing he always remembers is that guy he kills every single d… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's This Guy book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The Vault of the Sky, the Face of the Deep

By: Robert Levy

3.16

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

In the aftermath of catastrophe, an elderly woman tells her final story. Time: 19 minutes read more

Similar categories in Robert Levy's The Vault of the Sky, the Face of the Deep book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. That Which Does Not Kill You

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.59

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A woman wakes up to find that her girlfriend has ripped her heart out of her chest. It's not the fi… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's That Which Does Not Kill You book and China Miéville's The Design

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

26 Top fiction books like The Design by China Miéville

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The Hunger

Alma Katsu

0.00

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The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty

3.82

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Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)

Mira Grant

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Comfort Me with Apples

Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

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20 Best fiction books like Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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This Thing Between Us

Gus Moreno

3.74

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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