14 Top fiction books like The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

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The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol…

"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

If you liked the fiction plot in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy

By: Frank R. Stockton

3.94

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Story summary: In ancient times, a king devised a system of justice where guilt or innocence was de… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

2. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • classics
  • school
  • short stories
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  • horror
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3. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

4. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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  • horror
  • thriller
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

6. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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7. The Interlopers (Tale Blazers)

By: Saki

3.63

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, are both in a forested area on the Carpathian Mounta… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller

8. The Monkey's Paw (Oxford Bookworms)

By: W.W. Jacobs , Diane Mowat

3.37

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were dra… read more

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9. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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10. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

Similar categories in Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game book and Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

  • high school
  • classics
  • school
  • adventure
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

11. The Veldt

By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more

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12. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

13. The Sniper

By: Liam O'Flaherty

4.33

Format: 300 pages,

A trained sniper doing his job during the Irish Civil War faces a shocking turn of events, after ki… read more

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14. 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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  • high school
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
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  • horror
"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

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15. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

16. The Landlady

By: Roald Dahl

4.00

Format: 279 pages,

The Landlady is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the ta… read more

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17. The Scarlet Ibis

By: Philippe Dumas , James Hurst

3.84

Format: 36 pages, Library Binding

Our narrator, a grown man, tells us about his memories of Doodle, his younger brother. We jump into… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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"Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!"

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"All of us must have something or someone to be proud of."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"Oh yes you can, Doodle,' I said. 'All you got to do is try."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ..."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

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18. A Sound of Thunder

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Free online fiction. The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where ri… read more

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  • adventure
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19. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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20. 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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  • school
  • read for school
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"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

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21. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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14 best-selling classics books like The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Transform Your Habits

The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy

Frank R. Stockton

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

4.05

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

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Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Roald Dahl

3.84

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