14 best-selling short stories books like La busca de Averroes by Jorge Luis Borges

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La busca de Averroes

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.13

Format: 7 pages, ebook

Cuento "La busca de Averroes", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, …

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1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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2. Casa tomada [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Format: 5 pages, ebook

Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • short stories
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3. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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4. Headache [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Dave McKean , Michael Cisco

3.84

Format: 528 pages, ebook

The late Julio Cortazar was a sickly child and spent many hours in bed. Perhaps those memories insp… read more

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  • short stories
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5. Las puertas del cielo

By: Julio Cortázar

3.91

Format: None pages, ebook

A las ocho vino Jose Maria con la noticia, casi sin rodeos me dijo que Celina acababa de morir. Me … read more

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  • short stories
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6. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon

3.90

Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more

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  • short stories
"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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7. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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8. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

9. Circe

By: Julio Cortázar

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Circe" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • short stories
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10. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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11. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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  • short stories
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12. The First Man

By: Albert Camus , David Hapgood

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of a car accident in whic… read more

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"Je réclame l'indépendance dans l'interdépendance."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Ceux qui [suscitent] l'amour,même déchus, sont les rois et les justificateurs du monde."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Il faudrait vivre en spectateur de sa propre vie. Pour y ajouter le rêve qui l'achèverait. Mais on vit, et les autres rêvent votre vie."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

13. The Temple

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp m… read more

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14. Lejana

By: Julio Cortázar

2.88

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Lejana" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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15. Bestiario [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar

4.11

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Cuento "Bestiario", originalmente publicado en 1951 en el libro Bestiario. read more

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16. 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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  • short stories
"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

17. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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18. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

19. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more

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20. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte

By: Horacio Quiroga

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Constituye la obra cumbre del autor, en las breves y apasionantes historias que componen el libro, … read more

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21. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantas… read more

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22. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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24. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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25. Carta a una señorita en París

By: Julio Cortázar

3.94

Format: None pages, None

In 'Brief aan een meisje in Parijs', een keuze uit de bundels 'Final des juego' en 'Bestiario', bou… read more

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  • short stories
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26. All Summer in a Day

By: Ray Bradbury

4.00

Format: 4 pages, ebook

Margot is a nine-year-old girl whose family moved from Earth to Venus when she was four. She rememb… read more

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  • short stories
"I think the sun is a flower. That blooms for just one hour."

-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day

"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days..."

-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day

"Sabía que creían recordar un calor, un ardor en las mejillas, en el cuerpo, en los brazos y las piernas, en las manos temblorosas. Pero luego despertaban siempre al tamborileo trepidante, al intermin…"

-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day

"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting…"

-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day

27. Ómnibus

By: Julio Cortázar

3.43

Format: None pages, None

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28. La busca de Averroes

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.13

Format: 7 pages, ebook

Cuento "La busca de Averroes", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, … read more

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  • short stories
  • historical fiction
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29. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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