If you liked
Books like The Purloined Letter
Loved The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
-
1
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.
-
2
Exhalation
Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.
-
3
The secret of Father Brown
Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining h
-
4
Just So Stories
Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.
-
5
Tales of the Jazz Age
Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed nove
-
6
Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes
-
7
Youth and the bright Medusa
Youth and the bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories about artists and the arts.
-
8
Schachnovelle
Auf einem Passagierdampfer, der von New York nach Buenos Aires unterwegs ist, fordert ein Millionär gegen Honorar den mit einer Art mechanischer Präzision spielenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic
-
9
A diversity of creatures
A collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling. These include 'As easy as A.B.C. (A Science Fiction short, set in 2065 AD)', 'Mary Postgate,' and 'The village that voted the earth was flat
-
10
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.