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Collections of Short Stories
Single-author short story collections.
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أرني الله
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Love and Longing in Bombay
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Singled Out (Single Girls, #2)
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Veronica Blade (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (Machine of Death, #1)
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Single-Minded (Single Girls, #3)
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Veronica Blade (Goodreads Author)
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| 306 |
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Lips Touch: Three Times
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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Taking Pictures
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| 308 |
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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
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B.J. Novak (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 51,041 ratings
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| 309 |
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Magic for Beginners
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Stories: All-New Tales
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| 310 |
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Bestiario
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| 312 |
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...and the man who loved cats
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D.M. Samson (Goodreads Author)
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| 313 |
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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
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| 313 |
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Krik? Krak!
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| 315 |
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Collected Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
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| 316 |
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Deathbird Stories
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| 317 |
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Cosmicomics
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| 318 |
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The Past Through Tomorrow (Future History, #1-21)
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| 319 |
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
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| 319 |
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Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
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James Finn Garner (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,887 ratings
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| 321 |
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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic
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| 321 |
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Houlihan's Wake and Other Fragments of Mexico
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Bryan Murphy (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 323 |
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Airships
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| 324 |
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The Thurber Carnival
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4.21 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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The Wall
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| 326 |
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The Decameron
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| 327 |
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Hombres sin mujeres
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3.74 avg rating — 122,656 ratings
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| 328 |
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 2
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4.38 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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| 329 |
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Orsinian Tales
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3.66 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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| 329 |
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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4.19 avg rating — 35,414 ratings
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| 331 |
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Dogwalker
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Arthur Bradford (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 874 ratings
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| 332 |
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This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers
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Elizabeth Merrick (Editor)
3.51 avg rating — 940 ratings
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| 333 |
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Collected Ghost Stories
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4.13 avg rating — 7,721 ratings
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Complete Stories
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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 2,592 ratings
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James Herriot's Dog Stories
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4.44 avg rating — 7,642 ratings
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The Philip K. Dick Reader
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4.28 avg rating — 3,257 ratings
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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4.06 avg rating — 71,661 ratings
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A Haunted House And Other Short Stories
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3.83 avg rating — 5,229 ratings
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| 340 |
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Seven Deadly Sins
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Michelle Anderson Picarella (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
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| 341 |
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Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
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4.06 avg rating — 42,096 ratings
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| 342 |
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Fifty-One Tales
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3.76 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
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4.34 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Tales of Hoffmann
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| 345 |
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Black Tickets: Stories
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Jayne Anne Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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The Devil's Larder
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3.75 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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3.89 avg rating — 49,469 ratings
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
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4.03 avg rating — 3,326 ratings
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Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories
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Beware of God: Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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Odder Than Ever
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Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
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3.78 avg rating — 23,976 ratings
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The Best of Roald Dahl
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Damascus Nights
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Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
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3.98 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
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Daughter of Regals and Other Tales
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Tales Of The Night
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In the Middle of Almost and Other Stories
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| 359 |
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Sandcastle and Other Stories: The Complete Edition
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Justin Bog (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Racconti Sghimbesci
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Roberta Angeloni (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Little Cuts
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H.M.C. (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Dry Stories
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Kate Baggott (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Anything Is Possible (Amgash, #2)
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Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 77,625 ratings
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Learn Spanish with stories and audios as workbook. Spanish language course for beginners and advanced learners.: Spanish made simple. (SPRAUCH nº 1) (Spanish Edition)
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Anton Hager (Goodreads Author)
4.92 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Goodreads Best Short Stories 2019
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Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar
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4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Migrations
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J.L. Torres (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Before The Silence: Prequel to The Silence Dividend
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 370 |
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Flashing My Shorts
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Salvatore Buttaci (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Lettres de mon moulin
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A Pocketful of Dreams: a travelling diary & some storytellers (A Pocketful of Dreams - A Magic Diary Initiative in 3 Volumes)
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In All Probability
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Steve Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Farewell Navigator: Stories
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Leni Zumas (Goodreads Author)
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Return of the Dittos
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Dale Andrew White (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Man's Promise
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4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Complete Stories
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Moe Howard Died For Our Sins: made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted
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Dale Andrew White (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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بنت السلطان
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الشيخ زعرب وآخرون
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3.63 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Nimrod Flipout
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Etgar Keret (Goodreads Author)
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Friend of My Youth
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
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4.03 avg rating — 28,331 ratings
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Timeless Hope A Collection
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Jamie Lynn Boothe (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Dark Spaces
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Dionne Lister (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Renaissance
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
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The Maladjusted
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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
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Klondike Tales
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Mrs Durham's Girl: And the Stories That She Told
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يوم الثلاثاء
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
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Shapeshifter: The Demo Tapes - Year 3
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Susan Helene Gottfried (Goodreads Author)
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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Deesha Philyaw (Goodreads Author)
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
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Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories
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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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