6 Top short stories books like The Lottery Ticket by Jules Verne

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The Lottery Ticket

By: Jules Verne

3.55

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his…

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1. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more

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  • classics
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2. Las batallas en el desierto

By: José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more

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  • classics
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"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

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3. 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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  • 19th century
  • 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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4. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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  • short stories
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5. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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6. Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

Format: None pages,

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Strange Pilgrims

By: Gabriel García Márquez

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for … read more

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  • short stories
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8. Nemesis

By: Isaac Asimov

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orb… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)

By: Judith Kerr

3.81

Format: 320 pages,

Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning,… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

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12. The Fountains of Paradise

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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13. The City and the Stars

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.08

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more

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  • classics
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"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

14. La Comtesse de Cagliostro (Arsène Lupin, #12)

By: Maurice Leblanc

3.46

Format: None pages,

C'est ici la premiere aventure d'Arsene Lupin, et sans doute eut-elle ete publiee avant les autres … read more

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15. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

16. At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Burroughs, the 1st in his series about the hollow ea… read more

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17. Tarzan the Terrible (Tarzan, #8)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the previous volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after… read more

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18. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.90

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more

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"Teach me to speak the language of men."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

19. Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client (Naruto, #2)

By: Masashi Kishimoto

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Tired of menial tasks, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura ask for a tougher assignment. But you should alway… read more

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20. Naruto, Vol. 03: Bridge of Courage (Naruto, #3)

By: Masashi Kishimoto

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

While they recover from their injuries, Kakashi puts Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura on a strict trainin… read more

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21. The Gods Themselves

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more

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22. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome II de II. Edmond Dantes, le commandant du Pharaon, fiance a la belle Mercedes, a vu ses espera… read more

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23. Dombey and Son

By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more

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24. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

25. The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more

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26. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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27. November Road

By: Lou Berney

3.87

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desper… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Lo peor de una infancia infeliz: los momentos felices ocasionales, cuando se te permitía ver por un instante la vida que podrías haber tenido."

-Lou Berney, November Road

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28. L'inverno dei Leoni

By: Stefania Auci

4.06

Format: 679 pages, Paperback

Hanno vinto, i Florio, i Leoni di Sicilia. Lontani sono i tempi della misera putìa al centro di Pal… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Splendide, le perle. E strane. Non cose inerti, ma neppure vive. Nascono in un'ostrica il cui aspetto è simile allo scoglio cui l'ostrica stessa è attaccata, ma il loro interno è accogliente e vibra …"

-Stefania Auci, L'inverno dei Leoni

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29. Chaos Rising (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #1)

By: Timothy Zahn

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover Thrawn’s origins within the Chiss Ascendancy in the first book in an epic new Star Wars tr… read more

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  • science fiction
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"I didn't say that," Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. "But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test." "Shall we as the Ascendancy to d…"

-Timothy Zahn, Chaos Rising (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #1)

"I didn't say that," Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. "But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test." "Shall we ask the Ascendancy to …"

-Timothy Zahn, Chaos Rising (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #1)

"Someplace nice and quiet and away from the spaceport, I hope," Thalias said. "The first thing Yiv will probably assume is that we'll try to steal a ship." "Indeed he will," Thrawn agreed. "So where a…"

-Timothy Zahn, Chaos Rising (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #1)

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30. The Lottery Ticket

By: Jules Verne

3.55

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his… read more

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