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Books like The Book of Dragons

Loved The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit? 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

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    Interpreter of Maladies

    Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · Short Stories

    Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.

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    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · 2019 · Short Stories

    Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.

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    Works (Awakening

    Kate Chopin · 1981 · Short Stories

    Contains: [The Awakening][1] [Beyond the Bayou][2] Ma'ame Pelagie [Desiree's Baby][3] A Respectable Woman The Kiss [A Pair of Silk Stockings][4] The Locket A Reflection [1]: https://openlibrary.org/wo

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    Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

    C. S. Forester · 1956 · Short Stories

    As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wa

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Truman Capote · 1956 · Short Stories

    Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Go

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    The most dangerous game

    Richard Connell · 1990 · Short Stories

    The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow h

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · Short Stories

    Dark, funny, grace-haunted stories of the American South; unsettling and unforgettable.

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    Rashomon and other stories

    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · 1952 · Short Stories

    Ensemble de contes sombres, cruels et inquiétants se déroulant dans le Japon ancien.

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    Goodnight Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown · 1947 · Short Stories

    Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.

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    Rappaccini's Daughter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne · 2001 · Short Stories

    "Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses

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