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I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
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Real Ponies Don't Go Oink
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Low Port
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The Eternal Smile
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Very Crazy, G.I.!: Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
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Star Wars: Tales, Vol. 4
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Death in the Great Smoky Mountains: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Most Popular Park
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The Premature Burial
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Charmed Destinies
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
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Unlikely Friendships: Dogs: 37 Stories of Canine Compassion and Courage
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The Earth and the Sky: Stories
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DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy
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Elizabeth R. Wollheim (Editor / Contributor)
3.68 avg rating — 290 ratings
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First Snow on Fuji
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Fever
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2813 |
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
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Jenny Bond (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Quicker Than the Eye
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3.76 avg rating — 2,175 ratings
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2819 |
A Starfarer's Dozen: Stories of Things to Come
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Michael Stearns (Editor)
3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2819 |
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
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Michael Cox (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 893 ratings
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2821 |
Elf Fantastic
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Martin H. Greenberg (editor)
3.54 avg rating — 156 ratings
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2821 |
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
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Lucy H. Spelman (Editor)
3.98 avg rating — 1,668 ratings
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2821 |
The Toynbee Convector
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3.80 avg rating — 2,881 ratings
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2824 |
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
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4.18 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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2824 |
Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond (South Sea Books)
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3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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2826 |
The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction (A Bard book)
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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2826 |
Exceptions to Reality
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3.89 avg rating — 140 ratings
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2826 |
True Adventure Stories for Girls
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2829 |
Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
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William Frucht (editor)
3.50 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 16,
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Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains
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4.09 avg rating — 682 ratings
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2831 |
Murder by Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural
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Rosemary Edghill (Editor / Contributor)
3.78 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Catbird Seat
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3.84 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Forever a Stranger and Other Stories
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3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings
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2831 |
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners
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4.28 avg rating — 230 ratings
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2835 |
Adventure Stories For Girls
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John Canning (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2835 |
Diaboliad and Other Stories
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2837 |
Half a Life and Other Stories
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3.98 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
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3.94 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Meet My Maker, The Mad Molecule & The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
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3.80 avg rating — 188 ratings
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2840 |
Tales of Tenderness and Power
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4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings
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2840 |
Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology
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Nick Gevers (Editor)
3.58 avg rating — 741 ratings
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2840 |
Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets
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3.89 avg rating — 334 ratings
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2840 |
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
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Abby Sher (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Far Out
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2845 |
The Lives of Things
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3.76 avg rating — 2,758 ratings
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Sessanta racconti
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The Fatal Eggs
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2848 |
Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales
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3.79 avg rating — 2,893 ratings
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2848 |
Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age
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3.38 avg rating — 813 ratings
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 22,710 ratings
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2851 |
The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume 2
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4.02 avg rating — 3,457 ratings
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2851 |
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
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Michael Farquhar (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,558 ratings
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2851 |
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories
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2854 |
Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories
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4.28 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
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2854 |
Tales of the New World: Stories
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3.59 avg rating — 122 ratings
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2854 |
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
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2854 |
Something Childish But Very Natural
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The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
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3.93 avg rating — 280 ratings
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2859 |
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
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The Midnight People: Being Eighteen Terrifying and Bizarre Tales of Vampires
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The Downstairs Room
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2862 |
Death on the Air and Other Stories
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2862 |
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
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4.13 avg rating — 608 ratings
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A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories
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2862 |
The Dark Shadows Book Of Vampires And Werewolves
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2862 |
Kerplunk!: Stories
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2867 |
Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich (Otto Penzler Book)
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2867 |
Trust No One (X-Files Anthology Vol. 1)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
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4.24 avg rating — 915 ratings
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2867 |
Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe
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3.78 avg rating — 410 ratings
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2867 |
The Empress's New Lingerie and Other Erotic Fairy Tales: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
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2.50 avg rating — 70 ratings
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2872 |
The Continental Op
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2872 |
Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables
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3.31 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Southern Gothic Romance (Mammoth Books)
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Trisha Telep (Editor)
3.38 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Incredible Tales: Saki Short Stories
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Short Stories from Rabindranath Tagore
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3 By Flannery O'Connor
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Selected Stories
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Carniepunk
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Rachel Caine (Author/Editor)
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The Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Roth
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The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda
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Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures
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If you spell his name "Stefan Zweig" you should get all his major works ...

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 ?)

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.)

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 ?



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.
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?
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.

You're right... Hadn't even thought of that, even though I have several, but most mythological stories come into question as well ...

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.


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, 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.

-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, 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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