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Short and Sweet: Best Short Story Collections

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Cohesive themes and strong writing.
 
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Odd and dark. The second work of fiction from the author of the dystopian novel ‘Severance.’
Bliss Montage: Stories
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Kinda spooky, a little gross, pretty great!
Cursed Bunny: Stories
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Jarring and memorable stories from the acclaimed Southern Gothic writer.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories
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Award-winning short story collection classified as science fiction/fantasy, yet its experimental forms and straddling of the lines between realism and fantasy make it unlike anything I’ve read from the genres.
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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From the author of ‘Convenience Store Woman.’ Read about cannibalism, city foraging, and a teenage crush on a curtain.
Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata, Paperback
 
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In each short story within this collection centering Black men, what the protagonist wants is in some way subverted. But despite this continual pattern of unfulfillment, you can’t quite anticipate what will happen each time in this National Book Awar...
A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley, Paperback
 
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The best works of Berlin, who experienced more success after her death.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin, Paperback
 
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A powerful debut collection comprised of a few stories and one titular novella, centering a woman who camps out at Monticello after American society has collapsed.
My Monticello: Fiction
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Published posthumously. This debut collection was first written by a woman who died at 22 in 1966. Depicts African-Americans reckoning with racial prejudice in both realistic and fantastical ways in the 1950s/60s.
Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver, Paperback
 
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Each short story embodies "...that country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts." Often unsettling or eerie but always clever.
The October Country: Stories
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Stories of speculative fiction.
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Collection from the author of ‘Slaughterhouse Five.’
Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories
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