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Collections of Short Stories
Single-author short story collections.
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
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Chemistry and Other Stories
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
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Speaking with the Angel
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Nick Hornby (Editor)
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Mourning Doves and other stories.
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The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
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The Nick Adams Stories
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories
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Single-Handed (Single Girls, #1)
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Veronica Blade (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 221 ratings
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We Love Anderson Cooper
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R.L. Maizes (Goodreads Author)
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Watering Heaven
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Battle Scars: A Collection of Short Stories Volume I
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David Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Periodic Table
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A World of Joy (ASMSG Collections #5)
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Come to Me
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Nocturnes (Nocturnes, #1)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 6,128 ratings
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Gorilla, My Love
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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Oblivion
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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Girl With Curious Hair
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The Country of the Blind
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8,166 ratings
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
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4.39 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
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James Herriot's Cat Stories
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A Universal History of Iniquity
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Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
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The Stories of Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 22,901 ratings
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Without Feathers
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
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Blissfire, A Story Collection
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D.e.e.L (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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2013: A Stellar Collection
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الحب وسنينه
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The Kiss: An Anthology of Love and Other Close Encounters
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Palette of Love
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Ashok Kallarakkal (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Enjambre Sutil: Cuentos
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Complete Short Stories
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The Best American Short Stories 2007
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The World of Jeeves (Jeeves, #2-4)
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Trash
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What Has He Done Now?: Tales from a North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
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Oddly Enough
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Love and Loyalty
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Maria Savva (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
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Fusion
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Maria Savva (Goodreads Author)
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Who's Irish?
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Gish Jen (Goodreads Author)
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
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Shapeshifter : The Demo Tapes -- Year 1
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Susan Helene Gottfried (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Short and Tall
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
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James Finn Garner (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 8,262 ratings
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
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ShapeShifter: The Demo Tapes (Year 2)
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Susan Helene Gottfried (Goodreads Author)
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Flappers and Philosophers
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No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
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The Collected Stories
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Kissing in Manhattan: Stories
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Three Tales
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In a Glass Darkly
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The Collected Stories
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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The Street of Crocodiles
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
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The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
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The Compass Rose
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Complete Saki
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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Reasons to Live
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
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Love in a Fallen City
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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Bad Behavior
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Loot and Other Stories
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Ship Fever: Stories
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Forgotten Lore: Volume I
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Alexei Maxim Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Into the Aether
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Girls Night Out ... and other stories
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After the Gazebo
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Like Life
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All the Stories of Muriel Spark
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Aliens & Other Stories
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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The Funny Adventures of Little Nani
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Forgotten Lore: Volume II
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Alexei Maxim Russell (Goodreads Author)
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The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
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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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