27 best-selling short stories books like Aptitude by Cooper Shrivastava

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Aptitude

By: Cooper Shrivastava

3.68

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Alena has momentarily escaped her world and its imminent gravitational collapse by cheating her way…

If you liked the short stories plot in Aptitude by Cooper Shrivastava , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. The Maiden Thief

By: Melissa Marr

3.43

Format: 33 pages, ebook

"The Maiden Thief" by Melissa Marr is a dark fantasy novelette about a teenager whose town is plagu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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2. The City Born Great

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy

3. The Hanging Game

By: Helen Marshall

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, ebook

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more

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4. The Weight of Memories

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

3.71

Format: 498 pages, ebook

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and the forthcoming Death's Endcomes a … read more

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5. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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6. Legacy Lost (The Syrena Legacy, #0.5)

By: Anna Banks

3.79

Format: 208 pages, ebook

He is a mer-prince, she is the mermaid princess that his family orders him to marry so that their k… read more

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7. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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8. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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9. Small Monsters

By: E. Lily Yu

3.91

Format: 37 pages, ebook

All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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10. Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.89

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Wer… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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11. Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre (Judge Dee, #3)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.97

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Judge Dee returns to solve a new case involving a Parisian party gone wrong. But this time? Everyon… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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12. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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13. The Counterworld

By: James Bradley

2.51

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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14. Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, re… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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15. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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16. Masquerade Season

By: Pemi Aguda

3.94

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nigerian author Pemi Aguda comes "Masquerade Season," a Tor.com Original short story Pauly is … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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17. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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18. The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.47

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In a fairy tale equal parts gorgeous and gruesome, village couples seek approval for marriage from … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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19. Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.12

Format: 39 pages, ebook

Judge Dee must himself stand trial before his fellow vampires for the loss of a valuable manuscript… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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20. Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #4)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Paris is burning and Judge Dee and Jonathan are on the run. To guarantee their safety, they join a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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21. The Touches

By: Brenda Peynado

3.51

Format: 27 pages, ebook

Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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22. Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy

By: J.Y. Yang

3.73

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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23. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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24. An Easy Job

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.99

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

An Easy Job is a short story from Carrie Vaughn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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25. Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.94

Format: 32 pages, ebook

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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26. Questions Asked in the Belly of the World

By: A.T. Greenblatt

3.55

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

For the residents of this mycological ecosystem, creating art feeds the World around you and requir… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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27. Even If Such Ways Are Bad

By: Rich Larson

3.54

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.76

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew. At th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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29. I'll Miss Myself

By: John Wiswell

3.82

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timel… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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30. Aptitude

By: Cooper Shrivastava

3.68

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Alena has momentarily escaped her world and its imminent gravitational collapse by cheating her way… read more

Similar categories in Cooper Shrivastava's Aptitude book and Cooper Shrivastava's Aptitude

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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31. Deriving Life

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.77

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

In Deriving Life, love has no time limits, but life does. Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
"I can never go back,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"I felt awful and I did an awful thing."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"It’s my life to spend as I please, isn’t it?"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

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3.43

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N.K. Jemisin

4.49

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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Martha Wells

4.34

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Red as Blood and White as Bone

Theodora Goss

3.54

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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Lavie Tidhar

3.89

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C.L. Polk

3.86

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