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Red Spikes
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Distant Shores: A Tenth-Anniversary Celebration
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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
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Ceviz Ağacına Kar Yağdı: Bütün Öyküleri
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The Best of All Possible Worlds
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Paul the Puppeteer and Other Short Fiction
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From the Fifteenth District
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Legends II
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
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"El Aleph" de Jorge Luis Borges
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Daily Frights 2012: 366 Days of Dark Flash Fiction
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Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories
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The Best American Short Stories 2011
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
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The Shield of Time (Time Patrol, #5)
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The Daydreamer
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Voices of the Lost and Found (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
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Acid House
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What the Zhang Boys Know
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Diverse Energies
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Deep Navigation
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Winner Take Nothing
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A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume 1
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Horse Fantastic
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Gears: A Collection
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Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!
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Selected Short Stories Featuring Cinderella Shoes
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Twisted Tales: Flash Fiction with a Twist
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The Essence of Life and Love in Australia
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New York Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
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Fresh Blood
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Novel Hearts
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Reading is Magic
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X-Rated Hardcore Erotica
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Nightsound
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Rain Kaudenne | Four Parts of the Universe: Prequel
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Veils
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Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
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Brothers of the Snake (Warhammer 40,000)
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Divorcer
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Bats or Swallows
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Further Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne (Reverend Lyle Thorne Mysteries #2)
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Tra-Con-Per-Ski!
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15 beroemde verhalen
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Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
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When There's Nowhere Else to Run
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Highland Park Presents
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Sergeant Stone, NOPD
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The Open Boat and Other Stories
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The Ruum and Other Science Fiction Stories
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The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
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Wet and Screaming
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Funhouse
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The Mammoth Book of Short Science Fiction Novels
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Excommunicados
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Less Than Three
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The Burning Plain and Other Stories
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3vil (volume 3): Volume 3
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The Futility of Loving a Soldier
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Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning
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The Wandering Earth
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Tales of the Dying Earth
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Lonesome Traveler
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The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing
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Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
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Dead High Yearbook
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Baby's on Fire
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Right of Way: Stories
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The Hunter and Other Stories of Men
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Het gebruik van het woord
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Fantastische Vertellingen
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Old maids' tales
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Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize
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Inheritors
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The Way Some People Live: A Book of Stories
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Homemade Love
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Nostalgia
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Tender
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Shanghailanders
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The Half-Mammals of Dixie
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Bridges with Spirit
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Pimp: The Story of My Life
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Pretty Monsters: Stories
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change Anthology
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Unicorn Variations
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The Best of Fritz Leiber
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More Pricks Than Kicks
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
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Galleons and Gangplanks
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Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror
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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
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Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction
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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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