15 Best short stories books like Johnny Bear by John Steinbeck

Johnny Bear

By: John Steinbeck

3.53

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1. A Good Marriage

By: Stephen King , Jessica Hecht

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for gra… read more

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"Time takes it all in the end..."

-Stephen King, A Good Marriage

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2. Fair Extension

By: Stephen King

3.66

Format: 116 pages,

Der schwer krebskranke Streeter geht einen teuflischen Pakt ein. Seine Genesung und sein Glück sche… read more

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"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. It's just how the world is."

-Stephen King, Fair Extension

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3. Apt Pupil

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more

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"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

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4. Three Blind Mice: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.24

Format: None pages, ebook

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5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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6. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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7. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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8. Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

By: J.D. Salinger

3.52

Format: 288 pages,

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9. Summer and Smoke

By: Tennessee Williams

3.99

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"Summer and Smoke" is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Char… read more

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"You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!"

-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

"Oh, you know, and I know, I never had any voice. I had a crush on you, though. Those were the days when I had crushes on girls. Those days are all over— now I have crushes on boys."

-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

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10. Full Dark, No Stars

By: Stephen King

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King. 1922 The story opens wit… read more

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11. Dragon Teeth

By: Michael Crichton

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more

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12. Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more

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"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

13. A Perfect Day for Bananafish

By: J.D. Salinger

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the Janu… read more

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14. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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15. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

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16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Ken Kesey

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more

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17. 1922

By: Stephen King

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

1922is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars(2010). The story … read more

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18. Big Driver

By: Stephen King , Jessica Hecht

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Audible Audio

Now a Lifetime original movie, Stephen King's haunting story about an author of a series of mystery… read more

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19. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.75

Format: None pages,

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20. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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21. The Laughing Man

By: J.D. Salinger

3.87

Format: None pages, ebook

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22. The Adventure of the Dancing Men (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Edward Raleigh

3.60

Format: None pages,

The Adventure of the Dancing Men The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton The Adventure of Black… read more

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23. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.94

Format: 313 pages,

The Adventure of the Cardboard Boxis a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is widely considered … read more

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24. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

By: Quentin Tarantino

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more

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"What’s the secret?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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25. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

26. Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

By: J.D. Salinger

3.63

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

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27. Just Before the War with the Eskimos

By: J.D. Salinger

3.62

Format: 17 pages, Paperback

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28. Teddy

By: J.D. Salinger

4.37

Format: None pages, None

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"Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die."

-J.D. Salinger, Teddy

"The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that’s the only way most people know how to look at things, he said. But that doesn’t mean they do."

-J.D. Salinger, Teddy

29. De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

By: J.D. Salinger

3.79

Format: 33 pages, None

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"Then something altogether hideous happened. The thought was forced on me that no matter how coolly or sensibly or gracefully I might one day to learn to live my life, I would always at best be a visi…"

-J.D. Salinger, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

"PS In my last letter I casually asked if the young lady in the blue outfit in the foreground of your religious picture was Mary Magdalene the sinner. If you have not as yet replied to my letter, plea…"

-J.D. Salinger, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

"Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. All of them were arresting. One of them was unforgettable. The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a capt…"

-J.D. Salinger, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

30. Johnny Bear

By: John Steinbeck

3.53

Format: None pages, None

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31. Down at the Dinghy

By: J.D. Salinger

3.35

Format: None pages, None

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3.76

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3.73

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3.60

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