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Single-author short story collections.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
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Doll Palace
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Crash and Tell
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Out Through the Attic
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Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne (Reverend Lyle Thorne Mysteries #1)
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Will Heaven Be Good Enough, Nellie?
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Small Felonies - Fifty Short Mystery Stories
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Tempting the Gods: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume One
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The Broken Record Technique
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Millennium
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My South My Soul Vol. 1
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Emergency Protocol 9
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Vrijmoedige Verhalen; een klassiek erotisch meesterwerk
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Savage Love
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Light Bites
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Insanity By Increments: Stories
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Tales from the Dying Grass
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Notorious
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
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Half-Minute Horrors
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Across the Water: Tales of the Human Heart
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Candide and Other Stories
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Little Boxes of Bewilderment: Suspense Comedies
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Sun-Kissed: Effusions of Summer
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Giants
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
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Logical Psycho
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The Human Element: A Collection of Short Stories
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Julia E. Antoine (Goodreads Author)
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I Saw a Man Hit His Wife
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Parallel
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Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl
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Melissa Burke (Goodreads Author)
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Through the Eyes of Another: A Collection of Short Fiction
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Christopher Broom (Goodreads Author)
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2010
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Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (9th Edition)
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Most Men (A Short Story Collection #2)
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The Collected Stories
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
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Fascination
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Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories
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Stories of Music, Volume 2
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William Tell Told Again
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The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
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Motherwit
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The Invisible Man & Other Stories
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Mr Jolly: Short Stories
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Michael Stewart (Goodreads Author)
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Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Weenies series, #2)
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A Multitude Of Sins
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Homegoing
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Phineas
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Infinite Waters: A Collection of Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction Short Stories (Exciting Destinies Book 2)
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Nicholas C. Rossis (Goodreads Author)
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How to Love a Jamaican
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Alexia Arthurs (Goodreads Author)
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The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo
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Fate and Fortune: A Collection of Short Stories
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Nrupal Das (Goodreads Author)
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Moccasin Square Gardens: Short Stories
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Richard Van Camp (Goodreads Author)
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Emotional Moments
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حادثة شرف
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الذي اقترب ورأى
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غربة عرب
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حكايات مارك توين
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القرار الأخير
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النظارة السوداء
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شباب وغانيات
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Tales from the Crying Room - 3 twisted short stories, 20 short short stories, and a play
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The Bone Mother
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In einem fernen Land
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Sayville Tales
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Look at the Star in You Kindle Edition
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Collected Fictions
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Great doctor stories
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Everyone Worth Knowing
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Half
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Hao: Stories
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Reclaim the Stars
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Scary Stories for a Fright in the Night
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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CHANDAUSI JUNCTION
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All the Ruined Men: Stories
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The Stowaway
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Elwood Scott (Goodreads Author)
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Goodreads Best Short Stories 2021
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Let Us Look Elsewhere
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Bloodflowers
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Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
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Captured Up Close: 20th Century Short-Short Stories
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Een mannetje uit Polen
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Imaginings: A 25th Anniversary Collection
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The Ubiquitous masquereade
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The Pole and Other Stories
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A Dreamer's Tales
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More Stories to Tell (Stories to tell Book 2)
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Alan Crawford (Goodreads Author)
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Almanac of the Dead
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The Hotel Eden: Stories
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The Best of Robert E. Howard: Grim Lands (Volume 2)
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Hot Night in the City
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The Invisible Collection / Buchmendel
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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
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One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre
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Kathleen Blease (Editor)
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I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories
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Ölümcül Öyküler
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Barren Worlds
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Jul 18, 2008 04:13PM
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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