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Single-author short story collections.
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Three Japanese Short Stories
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Extra (Ordinary) People
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Deshoras
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African Stories (A Touchstone Book)
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Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Short Stories (Harry Bosch, #14.6; Harry Bosch Universe, #23.1)
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Citizen in Space
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Shoko's Smile
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The Lute and the Scars
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Various Miracles
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An Anthology of Chinese Short Short Stories
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German Literary Fairy Tales: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano, Franz Kafka, and others
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Nebula Award Stories Nine
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De Verenigde Staten van McSweeney's
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Dracula in London
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Mennonites Don't Dance
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Darcie Friesen Hossack (Goodreads Author)
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Love and Death & Other Disasters: Stories 1977-1995
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Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
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The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
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Stories and Pictures
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Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
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Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
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Michael Sims (editor)
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Odd and the Frost Giants
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis
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Trajectory
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The Hidden Side of the Moon
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Un tal Lucas
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Slow Learner
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories
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اثنا عشر رجلا
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Sub Rosa
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The Ebony Tower
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories
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Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters
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The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
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Daniel Halpern (Editor)
3.84 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Melancholy Elephants
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Nebula Award Stories 10
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James E. Gunn (Editor)
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McSweeney's #38
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Dave Eggers (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Deryni Archives (Deryni Chronology)
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Collected Stories
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Sleep It Off Lady: Stories
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In the Land of Men
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Night's Sorceries (Flat Earth, #5)
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The Voice Imitator
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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
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The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories
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Team-Ups and Crossovers
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Marion G. Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Wall of America
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Memory Wall
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
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Stories for Children
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آخر الدنيا
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The Dunwich Horror and Others
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A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
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Autobiography of a Corpse
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Star Wars: Tales from Jabba's Palace
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Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902
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The Best of C. M. Kornbluth
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History is Dead
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Out of the Woods
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Chris Offutt (Goodreads Author)
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Fireworks: The Lost Writings
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Nebula Award Stories 11
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Ursula K. Le Guin (Editor)
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Alchemy and Academe
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Isobars: stories
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Coloured and Other Stories
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Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar (Goodreads Author)
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Relatos
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Mendocino and Other Stories
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The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye
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Dagboek van een gek / De neus / De mantel
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Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories
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Dracula's Guest and Other Stories
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The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories
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Un hombre muerto a puntapiés
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The Untold Gaze
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Love
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The Long Chalkboard: and Other Stories
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بين أبو الريش وجنينة ناميش
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Buttered Side Down: Stories
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Demon Box
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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Sleepless Nights
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On the Wild Side
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Gerri Bowen (Goodreads Author)
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The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
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Dennis Pepper (Editor)
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Shatterday
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The Funky Tales of Oooka Chewobie (Oooka Chewobie #1)
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Megan Wilson (Goodreads Author)
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Only the Little Bone
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Nebula Award Stories Six
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Clifford D. Simak (Editor)
3.40 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Great American Short Stories
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Paul Negri (Editor)
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Elemental Magic: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters (Elemental Masters, #7.5)
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North of Nowhere, South of Loss
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Scar Vegas: And Other Stories
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The Cabin in the Woods and Other Tales
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De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek
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The Club of Queer Trades
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Tales of the Minivandians (The Minivandians #1)
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The Man Who Had No Idea
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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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