Books like Fragile Things

12 books to read next

• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories Susanna Clarke 4.7 h
• The October Country Ray Bradbury 5.6 h
• The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h
• A Blink of the Screen Terry Pratchett 5.7 h
• Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 3.5 h
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt 5.0 h
• Cabal Clive Barker 5.4 h
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, ʻImanuʼel Loṭem 9.4 h
• In a Glass Darkly J. Sheridan Le Fanu 6.1 h
• Sum David Eagleman 2.3 h
• Darkness Ellen Datlow, Clive Barker, Edward Bryant, Thomas Ligotti, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, Pat Cadigan, Joe R. Lansdale, Kathe Koja, Stephen King, Lucius Shepard, Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Etchison, Michael Marshall, David J. Schow, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ramsey Campbell, Terry Dowling, Glen Hirshberg, Joe Hill 8.6 h
• The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 6.3 h

How long each takes

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories Susanna Clarke 4.7 h The October Country Ray Bradbury 5.6 h The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h A Blink of the Screen Terry Pratchett 5.7 h Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 3.5 h The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt 5.0 h Cabal Clive Barker 5.4 h Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, ʻImanuʼel Loṭem 9.4 h In a Glass Darkly J. Sheridan Le Fanu 6.1 h Sum David Eagleman 2.3 h Darkness Ellen Datlow, Clive Barker, Edward Bryant, Thomas Ligotti, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, Pat Cadigan, Joe R. Lansdale, Kathe Koja, Stephen King, Lucius Shepard, Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Etchison, Michael Marshall, David J. Schow, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ramsey Campbell, Terry Dowling, Glen Hirshberg, Joe Hill 8.6 h The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 6.3 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.