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Collections of Short Stories
Single-author short story collections.
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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The Best of John W. Campbell
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Geoffrey Thorne's Dreamnasium, Vol. 1
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Geoffrey Thorne (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Extra Miles
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Ashish Negi (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Complete Short Stories: Volume One 1944-1953
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الأعمال الكاملة - القصص القصيرة ج1
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| 602 |
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In the Forest of Forgetting
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Theodora Goss (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Duel
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| 608 |
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The Floating Order
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Erin Pringle (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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| 608 |
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Box of Lies
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Mark Laflamme (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 608 |
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Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami (Introduction)
3.56 avg rating — 4,703 ratings
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| 608 |
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Antología de la literatura fantástica
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Jorge Luis Borges (editor)
4.34 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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| 608 |
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Fortune Smiles
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| 608 |
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Fifty-Two Stories
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
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Bumper Crop
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Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Terribly Twisted Tales
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Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
3.55 avg rating — 133 ratings
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| 616 |
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Dirty Girls
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| 616 |
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Cheating at Canasta
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South of No North
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Scattered Showers
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 12,401 ratings
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My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
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P.N. Elrod (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
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100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories
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Michael A. Arnzen (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
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3.90 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Cacoethes
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Scott Michael Craig (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Tales of Terror from the Black Ship (Tales of Terror, #2)
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The Metamorphosis
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Ford County
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 28,219 ratings
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| 630 |
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Old New York
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| 630 |
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Suspended Heart
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Heather Fowler (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 630 |
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My Mother Was An Upright Piano
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Tania Hershman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 100 ratings
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| 630 |
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Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Sharyn November (Editor)
3.95 avg rating — 3,738 ratings
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth (Tales of Terror, #3)
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4.08 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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| 630 |
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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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Ben Loory (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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| 630 |
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Under The Jaguar Sun
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3.78 avg rating — 4,264 ratings
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| 630 |
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A House of Pomegranates
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| 630 |
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The Refugees
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 21,801 ratings
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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
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3.51 avg rating — 3,686 ratings
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The Dowry of Virgins and Other Stories
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Ophelia S. Lewis (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Music for Chameleons
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Must Love Hellhounds
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 14,430 ratings
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A Portable Shelter
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Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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The Day It Rained Forever
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3.91 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
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3.96 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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Historias de amor
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3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
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3.36 avg rating — 138,485 ratings
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Slut Lullabies
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Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
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Nancy Pickard (Editor / Contributor)
3.75 avg rating — 11,473 ratings
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Two-Minute Mysteries
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3.73 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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Jackalope Wives and Other Stories
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4.48 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Bears Discover Fire
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Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me
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Ben Karlin (Editor/Contributor)
3.31 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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Pieces for the Left Hand
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Many Bloody Returns
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Coronado: Stories
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 4,201 ratings
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Valentine's Day: Women Against Men : Stories of Revenge
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Alice Thomas Ellis (introduction)
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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50 Great Short Stories
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Milton Crane (Editor)
3.58 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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The Demon Lover
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3.58 avg rating — 762 ratings
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-Street
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3.93 avg rating — 72,932 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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The Apple
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| 662 |
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Ten Little Indians
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4.06 avg rating — 6,958 ratings
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Glimpses: A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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The Collected Stories
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4.12 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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Plain Tales from the Hills
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3.71 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
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ترانيم في ظل تمارا
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
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4.08 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Cracks in the Ceiling
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| 668 |
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Something in the Woods is Taking People
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Stephen Young (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
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3.73 avg rating — 6,984 ratings
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| 673 |
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Supernatural Fairy Tales
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Dorlana Vann (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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3.39 avg rating — 64,765 ratings
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Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 27,549 ratings
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Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
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3.77 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Demonology
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3.42 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Postcards from Surfers
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3.57 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Dreamsongs, Volume I
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3.97 avg rating — 5,117 ratings
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(Breaking Away parts 1-5)
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Sarah Baethge (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
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4.27 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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Awake in the Night Land
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The Complete Stories, Vol. 1
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4.37 avg rating — 7,764 ratings
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A Quiver Full of Arrows
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 11,342 ratings
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Take Five
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Renee Pawlish (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Granta Book of the African Short Story
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Helon Habila (Editor)
3.87 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
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Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 7,333 ratings
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Tell Tale: Short Stories
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 7,054 ratings
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I Knew You'd Be Lovely: Stories
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Alethea Black (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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Death in Venice, Tristan, Tonio Kröger
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Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
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3.64 avg rating — 7,372 ratings
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The Empire of Ice Cream
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Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Winter's Tales
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3.86 avg rating — 2,531 ratings
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Aspiring Writers Short Story Winners
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Wendy S. Swore (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Collected Raffles
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The Door in the Hedge
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Five Minutes Fiction
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
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4.22 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
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| 698 |
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Waifs and Strays
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
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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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