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Single-author short story collections.
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A Place Like Home
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The Shadow Dies Loudly: 27 Tales
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The Fear of Everything: Stories
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Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize
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Cosmogony: Stories
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Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes
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La palabra del mudo: Cuentos 1952-1972
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Graveyard Ghouls for a Fright in the Night
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The Gardener and Other Short Stories
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Luke L. Carter (Goodreads Author)
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Why are you here?
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Read My Shorts
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All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 10
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Essays and Fictions
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Selected Stories by Xuemo 雪漠小说精选
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Mrs. Sarala's Saga...
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Tales of a Mermaid Gone Over The Deep End
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Teresa Fischtner (Goodreads Author)
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All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
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Funny You Should Ask...: Sometime life, and death, don't go quite according to plan
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Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories
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Wan Phing Lim (Goodreads Author)
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Plum Stones
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Scenes from Quarantine (The Tarot Sequence, #2.5)
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K.D. Edwards (Goodreads Author)
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The Gods Must Clearly Smile
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Aaron Christopher Drown (Goodreads Author)
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Coffee Shop Between the 'Verses
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Red wine and Dark Chocolate
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What Love Survives & Other Stories
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5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1
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Misha Quinn (Goodreads Author)
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Ayiti
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 8,160 ratings
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Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
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Sarah Pinsker (Goodreads Author)
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Firelight
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Daydreamers
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
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Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers
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Maximum Speed
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Kevin Clouther (Goodreads Author)
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Beginnings and Endings: A Selection of Short Stories
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Jane Suen (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Tell Me a Riddle
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In the Country
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Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 7,106 ratings
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Jackass: Short Story Collection
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Rick Glaze (Goodreads Author)
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The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories
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Very Odd Short Stories (Stories to tell Book 3)
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Alan Crawford (Goodreads Author)
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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
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Laurie Notaro (Goodreads Author)
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In a German Pension: 13 Stories
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The Collection
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Balıkçının Ölümü / Yaşasın Edebiyat
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Demons in the Spring
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
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Gönlümün Şirazesi Bozuldu
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Darker...
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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy
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3.61 avg rating — 130 ratings
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My Heart Is Broken
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القرآن الكريم
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İshak
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Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England
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Ring of Fire Short Story Sampler
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A.T. Russell (Goodreads Author)
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Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
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Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes
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The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories
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Dining with Robert Redford & Other Stories
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Crossing The Border
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Ksenia Rychtycka (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Namaste Stories: Volume 2
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The Man of My Dreams
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A Cup of Normal
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Future Gone
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An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories
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Galactic North
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Tales Told Before Cockcrow
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Weird Tales
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Second Time Around
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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
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A Gift of Dragons
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The Ghost of Sani Abacha
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Chuma Nwokolo (Goodreads Author)
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Four Bare Legs in a Bed
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Selected Short Stories Featuring Analog Memory
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Nicolas Wilson (Goodreads Author)
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The Past Present
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RANDOM: Tales From The Cafe, Volume Three
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Christmas Tales of Terror
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A Taste of Life and Love in Australia
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Margaret Lynette Sharp (Goodreads Author)
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Dog Stories
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End of the Road
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Inappropriate Behavior: Stories
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Storm Wine
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Nathan Crowder (Goodreads Author)
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Vampire News: The (not so) End Times Edition!: Volume II: 2
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Stavros (Goodreads Author)
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A Festive Feast: A Collection of Short Stories
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Samantha Bacchus (Goodreads Author)
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Real Life Dramas: Volume Two
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Charlie Chester | Four Parts of the Universe: Prequel
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Farmer's Almanac: A Work of Fiction
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Don't Tease the Elephants
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Jen Knox (Goodreads Author)
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Eyes That Pour Forth and Other Stories
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Joseph O'Brien (Editor)
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Retribution
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The Murphy Stories (Illinois Short Fiction)
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The Edogawa Rampo Reader
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Small Town Demons
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Shannon Celebi (Goodreads Author)
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Nothing But Trouble
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Bob Thurber (Goodreads Author)
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
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Joyce Carol Oates (Editor)
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McAuslan in the Rough
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A Glimpse Into Madness
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Sean Walter (Goodreads Author)
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A Long Way From Home
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Jan Ruth (Goodreads Author)
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The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
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Unnatural Creatures
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Stories
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These look like some interesting books however, the only one I've read is Interpreter of Maladies which I didn't enjoy. I haven't read short stories in living memory so I can't vote on this list, but thanks for asking anyway.
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Unaccustomed Earth is on the list twice.
I put in Stephen Zweig and got "No authors found". Looks like we're just getting started here.
I haven't read most of these but it's a good list. Some good writers on it. Thanks!
Thom wrote: "I put in Stephen Zweig and got "No authors found". Looks like we're just getting started here."If you spell his name "Stefan Zweig" you should get all his major works ...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Thom wrote: "I put in Stephen Zweig and got "No authors found". Looks like we're just getting started here."If you spell his name "Stefan Zweig" you should get all his major works ..."
I had in mind "Unsichtbare Sammlung" and "The Sleep Seller" (sp Silberzweig ?)
I've already exhausted my 100 permitted entries, so I can't add them myself, but the ISBN nos. of the first one are:1885586000 - "Invisible Collection" (English version)
3920856252 - "Unsichtbare Sammlung" (German version)
Couldn't find "The Sleep Seller" ... do you mean "Silberne Saiten"? (That's a collection of poetry, though, I think.)
Themis-Athena wrote: "I've already exhausted my 100 permitted entries, so I can't add them myself, but the ISBN nos. of the first one are:1885586000 - "Invisible Collection" (English version)
3920856252 - "Unsichtbare..."
Guy can't sleep. Wandering through the night he finds (or dreams) of a below-street-level shop where a mad proprietor charges old people to sleep sitting at a large table. He wakes them periodically to charge them for sleeping. Narrator decides that's where he belongs, but can't find it. Basically, a surreal older man's dream vision. Could it be by Ilse Aichinger ?
Sorry -- I'm drawing a blank (probably because I'm in a mental year-end twilight zone anyway). Sounds like an inquiry for that What's That Book site! (http://www.whatsthatbook.com)
Different Seasons is NOT a collection of short storiesIt's a collection of 4 NOVELLAS!
Any list of best short story collections without Akutagawa would be a mistake. He's the master of short stories.
Trang wrote: "Any list of best short story collections without Akutagawa would be a mistake. He's the master of short stories."Anybody can add books to a list on GR, so feel free to do so yourself! It's easy: Just click on the tab "add books to this list," up above next to "all votes," and then add any books you like, either from your own bookshelves or by performing a search in the GR database.
So many great new short stories to read!!!
Choyang wrote: "any new story"Twisted Sick.
Ender's Game definitely isn't a short story book -- looks like there are a few other novels on here too.
Are collections of fairy tales considered to be short stories? Haven't added any, as I wasn't sure...
Isn't The Captain's Daughter (currently #402) a novel?
About a month ago, Bookloving lady wrote:>> Are collections of fairy tales considered to be short stories?
Good question, I think... Particularly where the fairy tales have been altered or extended by the collector/author/editor's own prose, such as the works of Angela Carter -- eg. "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories", or "The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book".
And what about mythology, such as Edith Hamilton's or Thomas Bullfinch's ? Or Hamilton Wright Mabie's "Norse Stories" ? I'm inclined to say that yes, these are types of short stories, but I was a physics and math major with a pathetic background in the humanities... I'd appreciate other opinions.
In a similar vein, what about the "New Journalism" style of Tom Wolfe, eg. "The Kandy-Kolored Tangering-Flake Streamline Baby" and "The Pump House Gang", presented in short story style ? Or Hunter S. Thompson's Gonzo Journalism, such as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" ? Should those be considered as types of short stories ? I would welcome any input.
Bob wrote: "And what about mythology..."You're right... Hadn't even thought of that, even though I have several, but most mythological stories come into question as well ...
# 34 is a poetry collection. Do you want me to remove it?
This is an awesome list, one of my favorites.The system found and removed one duplicate.
The list still looks pretty strong, but I notice that some collections of nonfiction are creeping in. Nicole, do you want those yanked? Also, I want to advocate for Edward P. Jones's Lost in the City, which I don't think deserves to be buried on page 2. If others think likewise, they should vote for his book if not already done.
The system found and removed 4 duplicates.
I deleted two nonfiction books. Yes, Donna, I think you should definitely delete books you are certain are nonfiction.
The system found and removed 1 duplicate, and I removed David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day, which classifies as memoir/nonfiction, from #37.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
And from #74, David Sedaris again, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Victor wrote: "The Infinite Library and Other Stories"Victor, if you want to add that collection, you have to do it yourself. Go to the list and click the tab at the top that says "Add Book to this List". All of your own titles should come up, each with a button to add the title to the list. Nobody else will do this for you. Amazon employees don't work on this list; volunteers like me do. And when you drop a title into this comment section, which is intended for technical issues, you summon a volunteer to come and see what the problem is. I can't help you with this one.
I removed #1001, Ender's Game. It's a novel.
Looking at the first page:-the Pattaya Youtuber and Morley Roberts books are clearly spammed by bots.
-those Egyptian books all by the same author are obviously being shilled by the same group, looking at a few other short stories lists, they're all there in the exact same order.
Hope those get removed ASAP
Daniela wrote: "Notes From A Turkish Whorehouse"Daniela, if you would like this book added to the list, you have to do that yourself. Use the tabs at the top of the list. If the book is already on the list and you believe it should be removed, please tell me what page it is on, and in what way it falls outside the parameters set by the list maker.
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