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Single-author short story collections.
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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كليلة ودمنة
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Te Kaihau - the Windeater
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The Barbie Murders
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| 405 |
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Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories
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Bark
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| 408 |
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
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3.70 avg rating — 9,053 ratings
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| 408 |
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Einstein's Beach House
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Jacob M. Appel (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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| 410 |
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Saints and Strangers
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| 410 |
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More Tales to Chill Your Bones
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| 412 |
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The Collected Stories
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4.13 avg rating — 3,372 ratings
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| 412 |
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Changing Planes
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| 414 |
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The Best of O. Henry
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| 414 |
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Pistols For Two
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3.89 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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| 414 |
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Fresh Complaint: Stories
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3.61 avg rating — 9,547 ratings
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| 417 |
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Homeland and Other Stories
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3.84 avg rating — 9,192 ratings
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| 417 |
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Poe's Children: The New Horror
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3.43 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
score: 273,
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| 419 |
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Going to Meet the Man
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4.37 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
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| 419 |
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High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale
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Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 851 ratings
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| 419 |
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The Open Window and Other Short Stories
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3.95 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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| 419 |
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Collected Stories, 1939-1976
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4.40 avg rating — 765 ratings
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| 419 |
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
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| 424 |
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Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
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Rich Horton (Editor)
3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 270,
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| 425 |
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Harrowing the Dragon
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3.94 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
score: 269,
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| 425 |
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Jumble Tales
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Steve Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 269,
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| 427 |
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Offbeat Love Stories and More
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Jennifer K. Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 267,
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| 428 |
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The Little Disturbances of Man
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3.95 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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| 428 |
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Hauntings: Is There Anybody There?
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3.68 avg rating — 114 ratings
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| 430 |
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Dreams Underfoot (Newford, #1)
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 8,989 ratings
score: 264,
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| 430 |
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Hot Water Music
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3.87 avg rating — 16,019 ratings
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| 432 |
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The Dew Breaker
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3.81 avg rating — 8,288 ratings
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| 433 |
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To Cut a Long Story Short
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 7,873 ratings
score: 262,
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| 434 |
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
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3.95 avg rating — 3,207 ratings
score: 261,
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| 434 |
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Tales of Unrest
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3.69 avg rating — 584 ratings
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| 436 |
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The Best Short Stories of Saki
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4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings
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| 437 |
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Selected Short Stories
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3.84 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 256,
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| 438 |
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Father Brown: The Essential Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 962 ratings
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| 439 |
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Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
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3.65 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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| 440 |
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About Time: 12 Short Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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| 440 |
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
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3.91 avg rating — 6,763 ratings
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| 440 |
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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
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3.87 avg rating — 462 ratings
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| 443 |
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Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings
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3.54 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
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4.21 avg rating — 17,599 ratings
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| 443 |
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
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4.29 avg rating — 103,776 ratings
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The Persistence of Vision
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4.14 avg rating — 2,250 ratings
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Complete Ghost Stories
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3.73 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
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| 448 |
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Fantastic Tales
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Italo Calvino (Editor)
4.19 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 250,
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| 449 |
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Collected Stories
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4.01 avg rating — 948 ratings
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| 450 |
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Thus Were Their Faces
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3.89 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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| 451 |
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The Breaking Point
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3.81 avg rating — 1,711 ratings
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| 452 |
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Last Evenings on Earth
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4.11 avg rating — 5,181 ratings
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| 453 |
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Fabulous Small Jews
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4.02 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Long After Midnight
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| 454 |
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
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4.01 avg rating — 3,377 ratings
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The View from the Seventh Layer
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| 457 |
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Wormwood
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Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
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| 458 |
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The Cask of Amontillado
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4.07 avg rating — 86,345 ratings
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| 459 |
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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
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4.23 avg rating — 7,128 ratings
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Selected Stories
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4.10 avg rating — 2,227 ratings
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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3.88 avg rating — 16,212 ratings
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| 462 |
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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
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4.06 avg rating — 4,266 ratings
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Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
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3.89 avg rating — 21,929 ratings
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
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4.33 avg rating — 2,327 ratings
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| 464 |
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Burning Bright
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4.11 avg rating — 3,486 ratings
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
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4.04 avg rating — 7,102 ratings
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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The Screwtape Letters
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| 469 |
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Guests of the Nation
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Berlin Stories
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I Sing the Body Electric!
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| 472 |
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Twilight Zone : 19 original tales on the 50th anniversary
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Carol Serling (Editor)
3.77 avg rating — 805 ratings
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| 472 |
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Collected Short Stories
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3.72 avg rating — 387 ratings
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| 474 |
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
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Bruce Sterling (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 9,160 ratings
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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The Pedlar's Revenge
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Women's Decameron
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3.98 avg rating — 401 ratings
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The Royal Game and Other Stories
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4.22 avg rating — 604 ratings
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
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The Hugo Winners Vol 1 and 2 1955-1970
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Kentucky Straight: Stories
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Chris Offutt (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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Break It Down
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El horror de Dunwich
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3.81 avg rating — 14,405 ratings
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Transactions in a Foreign Currency
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This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death, #2)
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Ryan North (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
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4.34 avg rating — 11,900 ratings
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Seven Japanese Tales
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Selected Short Stories
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3.74 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Crocheted Gestures
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Chaos to Order and Back Again: A collection of short stories, poems, and other dangerous things.
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Blackbird House
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 19,108 ratings
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Into the Wilderness
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David Ebenbach (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Skull Full of Kisses
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Mary Never Had a Lamb, She Was the Lamb
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Cyndi Goodgame (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Thicker Than Blood
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4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Open Your Heart to Chance: a Golden collection
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Devon Winterson (Goodreads Author)
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Consuming the Muse
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The Crystal Ball and other Supernatural Stories
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Fiona Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Il Salmastro. Le stagioni in città
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Sanditon Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne (Reverend Lyle Thorne Mysteries #4)
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Ray Moore (Goodreads Author)
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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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