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The song of the wren,
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Starshine
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Prize Stories 1987: The O. Henry Awards
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The Hugo Winners Vol. 3 1971-1975
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Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
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Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales
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Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, Revised Edition
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That's True Of Everybody
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Doen alsof en andere prikkelende verhalen
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The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers
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American Fairy Tales
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Operation Chaos (Operation Otherworld, #1)
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A Table of Green Fields: Stories
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Dangerous Laughter
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كتاب الجنون
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The Best of Robert Bloch
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories
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A Fine and Pleasant Misery
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
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The Best American Short Stories 1969
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Martha Foley (Editor)
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The New Hugo Winners 1983-1985
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
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Erotic Travel Tales 2
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Bushfire: Stories of Lesbian Desire
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Karen Barber (Editor)
3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Verhalen
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In The Year Of Long Division: Stories
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
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Limestone and Other Stories
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The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
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Tabloid Dreams
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Atoms and Evil: Robert Bloch's Tales of Terror
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Milk Blood Heat
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
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Cold Tales
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The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows (Volume 1)
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Caviar
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The Best American Short Stories 1973
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Stories from The Hugo Winners, Vol. II (1962-1967)
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection
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Erotic Travel Tales
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Lesbian Love Stories
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De lachende Boeddha : verhalen
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Love Is Power, or Something Like That: Stories
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The Monster Hunter Files
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Larry Correia (editor)
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Questionable Practices: Stories
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The Library Card
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Verge
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Lidia Yuknavitch (Goodreads Author)
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Incidental Contact: The Weird Menace Adventures of O'Ryan and His Ostrich
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James Hold (Goodreads Author)
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The Captain's Daughter: And Other Stories
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Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
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Lantern Slides: Short Stories
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His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
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The Best American Short Stories 1978
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Ted Solotaroff (Editor)
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The Hugo Winners 1955-1961
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection
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Getting Even: Revenge Stories
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Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories
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John Loughery (Editor)
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Verhalen uit Odessa
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
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Vincent Lam (Goodreads Author)
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The Fat Artist and Other Stories
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
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Filter House
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The Color Master
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
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A Small Fiction
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The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories
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The Age of Wire and String
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A Modern Southern Reader
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A Way Home
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The Best American Short Stories 1983
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The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: Thirteen Prizewinning Stories 1976 - 1979
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection
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Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers
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De bonthoed & andere verhalen
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The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories
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Investigations of a Dog & Other Creatures
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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
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Quiet Pine Trees
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House of Fear
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Sarajevo Marlboro
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Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self
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Beyond
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The Best American Short Stories 1985
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Gail Godwin (Editor)
3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Hugo Winners, Volume 5: 1980 - 1982
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Isaac Asimov (Editor)
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection
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Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp through the Classics
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De jongste pop: Verhalen van Puerto Rico
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Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #4)
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Bright Magic: Stories
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Selected Stories
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Severance
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All Men Dream of Earthwomen and Other Aeons
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
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Hilma Wolitzer (Goodreads Author)
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S Is for Space
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A Touch of Strange
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
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Faust en andere verhalen
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The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
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A Long Time Dead: A Mike Hammer Casebook (Mike Hammer Novels)
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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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