18 best-selling fantasy books like Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark by George R.R. Martin

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Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark

By: George R.R. Martin

2.37

Format: None pages, None

A very early story from George R. R. Martin, part of his "Dr. Weird" superhero writings from his yo…

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Cover of Borne (Borne, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

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  • fantasy
"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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2. Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.18

Format: None pages, None

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one youn… read more

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  • fantasy
"Fa!"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"But in my heart, when I said “my king,"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

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3. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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4. Warbreaker (Warbreaker, #1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.67

Format: 230 pages, ebook

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris,and following up wit… read more

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  • fantasy
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5. 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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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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6. 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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  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) by Jim Butcher

7. Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.09

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pret… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) by Jim Butcher

8. Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)

By: Jim Butcher

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the Whit… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) by Jim Butcher

9. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harry Dresden--Wizard Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable R… read more

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  • fantasy
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10. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • fantasy
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Cover of Bilbo's Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien, Pauline Baynes

11. Bilbo's Last Song

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Pauline Baynes

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Bilbo's Last Songis considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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12. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5) by Brandon Sanderson

13. The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.95

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Also available in . "This story was written specifically for the Mistborn Adventure Game, a tablet… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) by Jim Butcher

14. Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)

By: Jim Butcher

4.35

Format: None pages,

Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving … read more

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  • fantasy

15. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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16. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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17. Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Mistborn: Secret Historyis a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains… read more

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18. The Grifters

By: Jim Thompson

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworki… read more

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19. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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20. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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  • fantasy
"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

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21. 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
  • fantasy
"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

22. Meathouse Man

By: George R.R. Martin , Raya Golden

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Meathouse … read more

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23. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

By: Jim Butcher

4.07

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable… read more

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24. The Emperor's Soul

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Also available in . A heretic thief is the empire's only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabi… read more

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25. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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26. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania

By: Brandon Sanderson

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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27. Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)

By: Jim Butcher

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day.... Because as W… read more

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28. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Cover of The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) by Christopher Buehlman

29. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more

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  • fantasy
"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

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30. 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon

By: Books LLC

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark by George R.R. Martin

31. Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark

By: George R.R. Martin

2.37

Format: None pages, None

A very early story from George R. R. Martin, part of his "Dr. Weird" superhero writings from his yo… read more

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  • short stories
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8 Top short stories books like Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark by George R.R. Martin

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The Color Out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

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The Dunwich Horror

H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

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Bilbo's Last Song

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4.50

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3.94

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The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr

George R.R. Martin

3.90

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

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A Song for Lya

George R.R. Martin

4.35

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