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Collections of Short Stories
Single-author short story collections.
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The Long Valley
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Shout Her Lovely Name
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3.52 avg rating — 918 ratings
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| 800 |
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May We Borrow Your Husband? and other comedies of the sexual life
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Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
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Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
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An Apple for the Creature
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The Encyclopedia of the Dead
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| 809 |
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Independent Author Index Short Story Compilation, Volume 1
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Faydra D. Fields (Goodreads Author)
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| 810 |
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Family Dancing: Stories
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| 811 |
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The Stories of J.F. Powers
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The Collected Stories
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4.31 avg rating — 75 ratings
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| 811 |
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The Book of Wonder
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The Gods of Pegana
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| 811 |
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Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
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The Old Forest and Other Stories
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3.95 avg rating — 381 ratings
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| 817 |
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The Gay Icon Classics Of The World II
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Robert Joseph Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 818 |
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Death Cometh (MPire #2)
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T.L. James (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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| 819 |
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Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales
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A.M. Harte (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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| 820 |
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Dangerous Visions
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Harlan Ellison (Editor, Contributor)
4.14 avg rating — 9,948 ratings
score: 126,
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| 820 |
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I Used To Think I Was Normal But Now I Take Pills For That
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4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
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| 820 |
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The Heresiarch and Co.
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3.64 avg rating — 192 ratings
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| 823 |
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Facts About Blakey
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 824 |
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East of the West: A Country in Stories
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Miroslav Penkov (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
score: 124,
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| 825 |
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Historias de Amor Gay de Todo el Mundo
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Robert Joseph Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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| 825 |
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Getting Even
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3.86 avg rating — 7,322 ratings
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| 825 |
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Daddy
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3.30 avg rating — 12,386 ratings
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| 828 |
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Happiness, Like Water
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Chinelo Okparanta (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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| 829 |
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In Search of the Lost (MPire #1)
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T.L. James (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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| 829 |
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Paingod and Other Delusions
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4.04 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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| 831 |
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Guys and Dolls
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4.07 avg rating — 760 ratings
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| 831 |
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Twisted Delights: A Thrilling Short Story Anthology
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Kimberly Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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| 833 |
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Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Pam Houston (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 7,310 ratings
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| 834 |
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On the River Styx
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3.69 avg rating — 127 ratings
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| 834 |
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Stay Awake
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Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
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| 834 |
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One More for the Road
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3.66 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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| 837 |
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BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology Volume 2
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3.63 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 115,
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| 837 |
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The Best American Short Stories 1984
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John Updike (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 115,
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| 837 |
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Japanese Gothic Tales
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3.95 avg rating — 596 ratings
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| 840 |
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A Disgraceful Affair: Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,498 ratings
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| 840 |
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Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes
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Greg X. Graves (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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| 842 |
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Monkeys
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Susan Minot (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
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| 842 |
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Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road
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Jennifer L. Leo (Editor)
3.29 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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| 844 |
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The Infinity Box: A Collection of Speculative Fiction
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3.34 avg rating — 148 ratings
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| 844 |
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Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
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3.98 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
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4.04 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits & Other Curious Things
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Cate Gardner (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
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4.30 avg rating — 30,058 ratings
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| 849 |
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Dark Light
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4.09 avg rating — 118 ratings
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| 849 |
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The Sorcerer's Academy
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Josepha Sherman (Editor)
3.53 avg rating — 72 ratings
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| 851 |
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Short Stories
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3.58 avg rating — 176 ratings
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| 851 |
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Separate Kingdoms: Stories
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Valerie Laken (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 81 ratings
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| 853 |
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Lust and Other Stories
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Susan Minot (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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| 853 |
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The Old Child and Other Stories
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3.62 avg rating — 202 ratings
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| 853 |
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Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
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3.49 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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| 856 |
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Bayou Drama: A Collection of Stories from the Bayou City
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Darine Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Collected Stories, Volume 1
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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| 856 |
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The Hugo Winners Vol. 3 Book 2 1973-1975
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Isaac Asimov (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 98 ratings
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| 856 |
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 14,341 ratings
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| 860 |
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Looking for Jake
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 5,980 ratings
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| 860 |
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Jigs and Reels
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,373 ratings
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| 860 |
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Hell Screen
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4.17 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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| 860 |
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The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
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3.54 avg rating — 214 ratings
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| 864 |
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Oblivious
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Neil Schiller (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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| 864 |
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The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
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3.94 avg rating — 3,253 ratings
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Revenge
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4.02 avg rating — 28,471 ratings
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| 867 |
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Kidney Disease Gave Me Brain Damage
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2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 867 |
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Diving Belles
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3.50 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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| 869 |
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Kilter: 55 Fictions
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3.96 avg rating — 119 ratings
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| 869 |
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Later, at the Bar
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3.32 avg rating — 1,131 ratings
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| 869 |
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Sentimental Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Don't Erase Me: Stories
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Arabian Affairs
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3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Dark Avenues
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The Native Informant & Other Stories
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White Flour Cookies: And Eight Other Stories from My Village
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Modest Aspirations
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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories
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The Sniper, Spring Sowing, Going into Exile
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3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Name of the Nearest River
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
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4.17 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Magic Barrel
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Primeiras Estórias
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Tales From the Café: Volume 1
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Guadalajara
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Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD
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Vrinda Pendred (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Stockings & Suspenders
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Inside My Shorts: 30 Quickies
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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays
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In This Light: New and Selected Stories
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The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
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Bahar İsyancıdır
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Pork
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How A Moth Becomes A Boat
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Josephine Rowe (Goodreads Author)
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The Velvet Touch
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Grimm Tales for Young and Old
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Philip Pullman (Retelling)
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Flowers In The Rain: & Other Stories
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Background Noise
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Where Shifters Meet for Drinks
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As Rivers Flow
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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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