Povídky

Nejsmysluplnější okamžiky života často přicházejí v malých baleních, zachycené v krátkých, ale silných záblescích, které s námi zůstávají dlouho po poslední stránce. Tyto koncentrované dávky moudrosti, humoru a lidské zkušenosti — ať už jde o osobní eseje, stručné memoáry nebo intimní charakterové studie — nabízejí čtenářům dokonalý způsob, jak prožít ucelený příběh na jedno posezení.

Povídky Shrnutí knih

Bílé noci

od Fjodor Dostojevskij

Over four white nights, a lonely dreamer offers his heart to a girl waiting for another.

4.07

300 000+

🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🧍 Lonely Narrator

Imerzivní

Bílé noci

Over four white nights, a lonely dreamer offers his heart to a girl waiting for another.

od Fjodor Dostojevskij 1848 82 stran

4.07

300 000+ hodnocení

🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🧍 Lonely Narrator

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

od Harlan Ellison • 1967

A sentient supercomputer torments the last five humans for eternity, refusing to let them die.

3.70

16 000+

🤖 Sentient Ai Horror 🧬 Body Horror ☢️ Post-Apocalyptic Torment

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

A sentient supercomputer torments the last five humans for eternity, refusing to let them die.

od Harlan Ellison 1967 20 stran

3.70

16 000+ hodnocení

🤖 Sentient Ai Horror 🧬 Body Horror ☢️ Post-Apocalyptic Torment

Men Without Women

od Haruki Murakami • 2014

Seven Tokyo men nurse quiet grief with jazz records and the occasional ghost of love.

3.74

100 000+

🖤 Male Loneliness 🗿 Emotional Repression 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

Men Without Women

Seven Tokyo men nurse quiet grief with jazz records and the occasional ghost of love.

od Haruki Murakami 2014 228 stran

3.74

100 000+ hodnocení

🖤 Male Loneliness 🗿 Emotional Repression 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

Zrádné srdce

od Edgar Allan Poe • 1980

A pale eye drives a lodger to murder. Police sit above. A dead heart pounds below.

4.24

100 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness

Zrádné srdce

A pale eye drives a lodger to murder. Police sit above. A dead heart pounds below.

od Edgar Allan Poe 1980 31 stran

4.24

100 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness

The Blue Umbrella

od Ruskin Bond • 1980

A Himalayan girl's blue umbrella enchants her village until a shopkeeper's longing turns to theft.

4.25

13 000+

🏘️ Rural India 💎 Coveted Object 🏡 Small Village Life

The Blue Umbrella

A Himalayan girl's blue umbrella enchants her village until a shopkeeper's longing turns to theft.

od Ruskin Bond 1980 83 stran

4.25

13 000+ hodnocení

🏘️ Rural India 💎 Coveted Object 🏡 Small Village Life

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

od Maurice Leblanc • 1907

A debonair thief turns detective, solving the mysteries the French police cannot crack.

3.85

16 000+

🎩 Gentleman Thief 🗼 Belle Epoque Paris 🎭 Master Of Disguise

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

A debonair thief turns detective, solving the mysteries the French police cannot crack.

od Maurice Leblanc 1907 279 stran

3.85

16 000+ hodnocení

🎩 Gentleman Thief 🗼 Belle Epoque Paris 🎭 Master Of Disguise

The Call of Cthulhu

od H.P. Lovecraft • 2011

A scholar inherits a manuscript, an idol, and the truth: a sleeping god rules our nightmares.

4.03

100 000+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🦑 Ancient God Awakens 📜 Forbidden Manuscript

The Call of Cthulhu

A scholar inherits a manuscript, an idol, and the truth: a sleeping god rules our nightmares.

od H.P. Lovecraft 2011 43 stran

4.03

100 000+ hodnocení

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🦑 Ancient God Awakens 📜 Forbidden Manuscript

Návštěva bandy rváčů

od Jennifer Egan • 2010

A punk turned producer and his kleptomaniac assistant reckon with the thief that is time.

3.70

200 000+

🕸️ Interconnected Stories 🔀 Nonlinear Narrative ⏳ Passage Of Time

Návštěva bandy rváčů

A punk turned producer and his kleptomaniac assistant reckon with the thief that is time.

od Jennifer Egan 2010 274 stran

3.70

200 000+ hodnocení

🕸️ Interconnected Stories 🔀 Nonlinear Narrative ⏳ Passage Of Time

Příběhy z kavárny

od Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2017

In a quiet Tokyo café, visitors travel to their pasts, but the present never changes.

3.96

100 000+

🕰️ Time Travel 🥀 Bittersweet 🔗 Interconnected Stories

Příběhy z kavárny

In a quiet Tokyo café, visitors travel to their pasts, but the present never changes.

od Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2017 192 stran

3.96

100 000+ hodnocení

🕰️ Time Travel 🥀 Bittersweet 🔗 Interconnected Stories

Věci, které s sebou nesli

od Tim O'Brien • 1990

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

4.15

300 000+

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor

Věci, které s sebou nesli

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

od Tim O'Brien 1990 246 stran

4.15

300 000+ hodnocení

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

od Irvin D. Yalom • 1989

A therapist admits: his own boredom, lust, and dread are the real instruments of cure.

4.25

42 000+

🏛️ Existential Therapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💀 Death Anxiety

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

A therapist admits: his own boredom, lust, and dread are the real instruments of cure.

od Irvin D. Yalom 1989 304 stran

4.25

42 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Existential Therapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💀 Death Anxiety

The Black Cat

od Edgar Allan Poe • 2004

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

4.03

59 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness

The Black Cat

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

od Edgar Allan Poe 2004 24 stran

4.03

59 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness

Who Goes There?

od John W. Campbell Jr. • 1938

Antarctic researchers thaw a shape-shifting alien. Anyone could be the monster.

3.77

12 000+

❄️ Arctic Horror 👽 Classic Sci-Fi Horror 🎭 Hidden Impostor

Who Goes There?

Antarctic researchers thaw a shape-shifting alien. Anyone could be the monster.

od John W. Campbell Jr. 1938 161 stran

3.77

12 000+ hodnocení

❄️ Arctic Horror 👽 Classic Sci-Fi Horror 🎭 Hidden Impostor

Wise and Otherwise

od Sudha Murty • 2006

A coolie's honest son and a tribal chief teach the real India about integrity and dignity.

4.03

13 000+

🕉️ Indian Philosophy 🦉 Anecdotal Wisdom 📜 Moral Fables

Wise and Otherwise

A coolie's honest son and a tribal chief teach the real India about integrity and dignity.

od Sudha Murty 2006 220 stran

4.03

13 000+ hodnocení

🕉️ Indian Philosophy 🦉 Anecdotal Wisdom 📜 Moral Fables

Games Untold

od Jennifer Lynn Barnes • 2024

A wealthy heir disappears in Prague, leaving a trail of clues for his puzzle-loving partner.

4.03

50 000+

🧩 Puzzle Mystery 💘 Slow Burn Romance 💎 Wealthy Heirs

Games Untold

A wealthy heir disappears in Prague, leaving a trail of clues for his puzzle-loving partner.

od Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2024 448 stran

4.03

50 000+ hodnocení

🧩 Puzzle Mystery 💘 Slow Burn Romance 💎 Wealthy Heirs

Proměna

od Franz Kafka

A salesman wakes as an insect, and his family's care hardens into a quiet death sentence.

3.91

1 000 000+

🎭 Absurdist Fiction 🦗 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror

Imerzivní

Proměna

A salesman wakes as an insect, and his family's care hardens into a quiet death sentence.

od Franz Kafka 1915 201 stran

3.91

1 000 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Absurdist Fiction 🦗 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror

The House of Hunger

od Dambudzo Marechera • 1978

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

3.95

1 000+

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression

The House of Hunger

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

od Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 stran

3.95

1 000+ hodnocení

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression

A Short Stay in Hell

od Steven L. Peck • 2011

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

4.15

70 000+

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror

A Short Stay in Hell

After death, a man faces an infinite library. To escape Hell, he must find the book of his life.

od Steven L. Peck 2011 108 stran

4.15

70 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Philosophical Horror 👻 Afterlife Horror 🔢 Mathematical Horror

Auggie & Me

od R.J. Palacio • 2015

How three kids from Auggie's world confront the hardest thing of all: their own mistakes.

4.27

41 000+

📖 Short Story Collection 📘 Companion Novel 🔄 Bully Redemption

Auggie & Me

How three kids from Auggie's world confront the hardest thing of all: their own mistakes.

od R.J. Palacio 2015 303 stran

4.27

41 000+ hodnocení

📖 Short Story Collection 📘 Companion Novel 🔄 Bully Redemption

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

od Ambrose Bierce • 1996

A planter on a railroad bridge awaits the drop; his mind flees toward a final embrace.

4.01

27 000+

🎖️ Civil War Fiction 🖤 Psychological Horror 🤯 Twist Ending

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

A planter on a railroad bridge awaits the drop; his mind flees toward a final embrace.

od Ambrose Bierce 1996 36 stran

4.01

27 000+ hodnocení

🎖️ Civil War Fiction 🖤 Psychological Horror 🤯 Twist Ending

Kompletní bajky

od Ezop

Talking beasts and wicked irony: an ancient slave's complete guide to the human comedy.

4.05

100 000+

🐾 Beast Fables 🗣️ Talking Animals 🦊 Trickster Fox

Kompletní bajky

Talking beasts and wicked irony: an ancient slave's complete guide to the human comedy.

od Ezop 262 stran

4.05

100 000+ hodnocení

🐾 Beast Fables 🗣️ Talking Animals 🦊 Trickster Fox

Poslední přání

od Andrzej Sapkowski • 1993

A witcher roams a dark land where every monster contract forces an impossible moral choice.

4.14

400 000+

🐺 Slavic-Inspired Fantasy 📖 Subverted Fairy Tale 👑 Cursed Nobility

Poslední přání

A witcher roams a dark land where every monster contract forces an impossible moral choice.

od Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 400 stran

4.14

400 000+ hodnocení

🐺 Slavic-Inspired Fantasy 📖 Subverted Fairy Tale 👑 Cursed Nobility

Schoolgirl

od Osamu Dazai • 1939

A grieving Japanese schoolgirl spends a day navigating pretense and the hunger to feel real.

3.96

26 000+

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 😞 Adolescent Angst 🕯️ Parental Loss

Schoolgirl

A grieving Japanese schoolgirl spends a day navigating pretense and the hunger to feel real.

od Osamu Dazai 1939 103 stran

3.96

26 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 😞 Adolescent Angst 🕯️ Parental Loss

Co hledáte, najdete v knihovně

od Michiko Aoyama • 2020

A Tokyo librarian helps five lost souls find new direction with unexpected gifts and curated books.

4.03

100 000+

🗼 Everyday Tokyo 🏢 Career Crossroads 📚 Library As Sanctuary

Co hledáte, najdete v knihovně

A Tokyo librarian helps five lost souls find new direction with unexpected gifts and curated books.

od Michiko Aoyama 2020 304 stran

4.03

100 000+ hodnocení

🗼 Everyday Tokyo 🏢 Career Crossroads 📚 Library As Sanctuary

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

od Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1877

Suicide, a weeping child, then a dream: a despairing man enters a pristine, sinless world.

4.03

43 000+

🌑 Existential Despair 📜 Philosophical Parable 💭 Dream Vision

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Suicide, a weeping child, then a dream: a despairing man enters a pristine, sinless world.

od Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 stran

4.03

43 000+ hodnocení

🌑 Existential Despair 📜 Philosophical Parable 💭 Dream Vision

The Overcoat

od Nikolai Gogol • 2004

A humble copy clerk's new overcoat gives him an identity the city soon strips away.

4.14

53 000+

🎭 Social Satire 👤 Little Man 📜 Tsarist Bureaucracy

The Overcoat

A humble copy clerk's new overcoat gives him an identity the city soon strips away.

od Nikolai Gogol 2004 57 stran

4.14

53 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Social Satire 👤 Little Man 📜 Tsarist Bureaucracy

The Shawshank Redemption

od Stephen King

A wrongly convicted banker enters Shawshank, where the warden plans to keep him forever.

4.48

6 000+

🎬 Prison Drama ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔨 Prison Escape

Imerzivní

The Shawshank Redemption

A wrongly convicted banker enters Shawshank, where the warden plans to keep him forever.

od Stephen King 1994 507 stran

4.48

6 000+ hodnocení

🎬 Prison Drama ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔨 Prison Escape

Table for Two

od Amor Towles • 2024

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

4.19

74 000+

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist

Table for Two

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

od Amor Towles 2024 451 stran

4.19

74 000+ hodnocení

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist

Chicken Soup for the Soul

od Jack Canfield • 2010

Someone's worst year, told in four pages. A gratitude reflex, built in 101 sittings.

4.06

1 000+

🧠 Positive Psychology 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Someone's worst year, told in four pages. A gratitude reflex, built in 101 sittings.

od Jack Canfield 2010 432 stran

4.06

1 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Positive Psychology 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

The Life of a Stupid Man

od Ryūnosuke Akutagawa • 1927

A writer catalogs his life in fragments: madness, art, and a cosmos that laughs.

3.67

11 000+

📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Life of a Stupid Man

A writer catalogs his life in fragments: madness, art, and a cosmos that laughs.

od Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1927 55 stran

3.67

11 000+ hodnocení

📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

od Harlan Ellison • 1967

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

3.89

56 000+

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

od Harlan Ellison 1967 134 stran

3.89

56 000+ hodnocení

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

Já, robot

od Isaac Asimov • 1950

Robots built to protect humanity keep finding fatal logic gaps: a robopsychologist's casebook.

4.21

300 000+

🤖 Robot Ethics 💻 Programming Conflicts 🧠 Machine Consciousness

Já, robot

Robots built to protect humanity keep finding fatal logic gaps: a robopsychologist's casebook.

od Isaac Asimov 1950 224 stran

4.21

300 000+ hodnocení

🤖 Robot Ethics 💻 Programming Conflicts 🧠 Machine Consciousness

The Cyberiad

od Stanisław Lem • 1965

Two brilliant robots wander the galaxy building machines that turn logic puzzles into cosmic chaos.

4.13

14 000+

🧙‍♂️ Science Fiction Fables 🪐 Satirical Sci-Fi 🤡 Absurdist Humor

The Cyberiad

Two brilliant robots wander the galaxy building machines that turn logic puzzles into cosmic chaos.

od Stanisław Lem 1965 295 stran

4.13

14 000+ hodnocení

🧙‍♂️ Science Fiction Fables 🪐 Satirical Sci-Fi 🤡 Absurdist Humor

Ficciones

od Jorge Luis Borges • 1944

Libraries without end, worlds dreamed into being, a man who cannot forget: philosophy as fiction.

4.40

80 000+

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 📖 Metafictional Stories 🌍 Invented Worlds

Ficciones

Libraries without end, worlds dreamed into being, a man who cannot forget: philosophy as fiction.

od Jorge Luis Borges 1944 174 stran

4.40

80 000+ hodnocení

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 📖 Metafictional Stories 🌍 Invented Worlds

Tlumočník nemocí

od Jhumpa Lahiri • 1999

Nine stories of the Indian diaspora: the small devastations of distance and the search for home.

4.18

200 000+

✈️ Immigrant Fiction 🔗 Linked Short Stories 💔 Marital Estrangement

Tlumočník nemocí

Nine stories of the Indian diaspora: the small devastations of distance and the search for home.

od Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 stran

4.18

200 000+ hodnocení

✈️ Immigrant Fiction 🔗 Linked Short Stories 💔 Marital Estrangement

Dům na Mango Street

od Sandra Cisneros • 1984

On Mango Street, a girl named Hope starts writing the home she cannot yet live in.

3.68

200 000+

🌺 Chicana Literature 📖 Vignette Novel ✍️ Writing As Escape

Dům na Mango Street

On Mango Street, a girl named Hope starts writing the home she cannot yet live in.

od Sandra Cisneros 1984 110 stran

3.68

200 000+ hodnocení

🌺 Chicana Literature 📖 Vignette Novel ✍️ Writing As Escape

Marťanská kronika

od Ray Bradbury • 1950

Earth's rockets land on an ancient, telepathic Mars. One world will erase the other.

4.16

200 000+

🌑 Quiet Apocalypse 🏛️ Cultural Erasure 👽 Telepathic Aliens

Marťanská kronika

Earth's rockets land on an ancient, telepathic Mars. One world will erase the other.

od Ray Bradbury 1950 182 stran

4.16

200 000+ hodnocení

🌑 Quiet Apocalypse 🏛️ Cultural Erasure 👽 Telepathic Aliens

Bajky barda Beedleho

od J.K. Rowlingová • 2008

The wizarding world's fairy tales: five stories of kindness, greed, cleverness, and cheating Death.

4.03

500 000+

🧚 Fairy Tale Collection 📖 Moral Fables 💀 Death As Character

Bajky barda Beedleho

The wizarding world's fairy tales: five stories of kindness, greed, cleverness, and cheating Death.

od J.K. Rowlingová 2008 105 stran

4.03

500 000+ hodnocení

🧚 Fairy Tale Collection 📖 Moral Fables 💀 Death As Character

Short Stories in English for Beginners

od Olly Richards • 2018

A book of stories where finishing feels like winning, and every page quietly upgrades your English.

4.09

162

📚 Graded Readers 🧠 Language Acquisition 🇬🇧 English Learners

Short Stories in English for Beginners

A book of stories where finishing feels like winning, and every page quietly upgrades your English.

od Olly Richards 2018 240 stran

4.09

162 hodnocení

📚 Graded Readers 🧠 Language Acquisition 🇬🇧 English Learners

Šachová novela

od Stefan Zweig • 1942

A Nazi survivor challenges the world chess champion, risking the madness the game once caused.

4.26

100 000+

🎭 Psychological Novella ♟️ Chess As Obsession 🔒 Solitary Confinement

Šachová novela

A Nazi survivor challenges the world chess champion, risking the madness the game once caused.

od Stefan Zweig 1942 104 stran

4.26

100 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Psychological Novella ♟️ Chess As Obsession 🔒 Solitary Confinement

Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas

od Satyarth Nayak • 2022

100 Puranic tales span creation to dissolution, tracing a cosmos where devotion rewrites destiny.

4.39

1 000+

🕉️ Hindu Mythology 📜 Mythology Retelling ⚖️ Cosmic Balance

Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas

100 Puranic tales span creation to dissolution, tracing a cosmos where devotion rewrites destiny.

od Satyarth Nayak 2022 436 stran

4.39

1 000+ hodnocení

🕉️ Hindu Mythology 📜 Mythology Retelling ⚖️ Cosmic Balance

There Is No Antimemetics Division

od qntm

Marion Wheeler runs a division nobody remembers, fighting a thought that kills anyone who grasps it.

4.10

28 000+

👾 Cosmic Horror 📄 Bureaucratic Horror 🧠 Memory Erasure

There Is No Antimemetics Division Shrnutí

Imerzivní

There Is No Antimemetics Division

Marion Wheeler runs a division nobody remembers, fighting a thought that kills anyone who grasps it.

od qntm 2020 220 stran

4.10

28 000+ hodnocení

👾 Cosmic Horror 📄 Bureaucratic Horror 🧠 Memory Erasure

Chicken Soup for the Soul

od Jack Canfield • 1993

101 true stories where an ordinary person becomes the turning point in another's life.

3.96

41 000+

📖 Uplifting Anecdotes 💭 Positive Thinking ❤️ Acts Of Kindness

Chicken Soup for the Soul

101 true stories where an ordinary person becomes the turning point in another's life.

od Jack Canfield 1993 428 stran

3.96

41 000+ hodnocení

📖 Uplifting Anecdotes 💭 Positive Thinking ❤️ Acts Of Kindness

Rejection

od Tony Tulathimutte • 2024

A group of very online failures chase validation through sex, money, and anonymous posts.

3.74

45 000+

🖇️ Linked Stories 😬 Cringe Comedy 💣 Self-Sabotage

Rejection

A group of very online failures chase validation through sex, money, and anonymous posts.

od Tony Tulathimutte 2024 272 stran

3.74

45 000+ hodnocení

🖇️ Linked Stories 😬 Cringe Comedy 💣 Self-Sabotage

Four

od Veronica Roth • 2014

An abused boy hides his resistant mind among warriors, discovers a plan to destroy his homeland.

3.93

200 000+

🌆 Futuristic Chicago 📖 Short Story Prequel ⚔️ Initiation Training

Four

An abused boy hides his resistant mind among warriors, discovers a plan to destroy his homeland.

od Veronica Roth 2014 285 stran

3.93

200 000+ hodnocení

🌆 Futuristic Chicago 📖 Short Story Prequel ⚔️ Initiation Training

Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories

od Young-ha Kim • 2019

An Alzheimer's-stricken serial killer must outwit the murderer he sees in his daughter's boyfriend.

3.71

13 000+

🎭 Psychological Thriller 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Memory Loss

Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories

An Alzheimer's-stricken serial killer must outwit the murderer he sees in his daughter's boyfriend.

od Young-ha Kim 2019 200 stran

3.71

13 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Psychological Thriller 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Memory Loss

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

od Damilare Kuku • 2024

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

4.00

9 000+

📚 Linked Short Stories 🌆 Contemporary Lagos 🖤 Dark Comedy

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

od Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9 000+ hodnocení

📚 Linked Short Stories 🌆 Contemporary Lagos 🖤 Dark Comedy

Exhalation

od Ted Chiang • 2019

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

4.27

100 000+

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop

Exhalation

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

od Ted Chiang 2019 368 stran

4.27

100 000+ hodnocení

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop

Dobrodružství Sherlocka Holmese

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1892

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

4.30

300 000+

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London

Dobrodružství Sherlocka Holmese

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 389 stran

4.30

300 000+ hodnocení

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

od Rick Riordan • 2015

Percy Jackson retells the original Greek hero myths with snark, tragedy, and divine family drama.

4.41

54 000+

🏛️ Greek Myth Retellings 🗣️ Snarky Narrator 💔 Tragic Heroes

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Percy Jackson retells the original Greek hero myths with snark, tragedy, and divine family drama.

od Rick Riordan 2015 404 stran

4.41

54 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Greek Myth Retellings 🗣️ Snarky Narrator 💔 Tragic Heroes

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