Best New Short Stories - April 2024

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

• ASIN: B0042FZVOY
• ASIN: B0042FZVOY
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544582942
• ASIN: 0544582942
• ISBN: 0544582942
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018

THE ESSENTIAL YEARLY GUIDE TO THE NEWEST VOICES IN SHORT FICTION "A book of gems, each one carrying its own particular clarity and cut, that teaches students of writing how limitless the short story form can be." —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat's PajamasPEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today’s most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. The characters within these pages include a college dropout dressed up as Hercules at Disney World; a college graduate playing a prostitute in a gho... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079Y8PS7T
• ASIN: B079Y8PS7T
• Manufacturer: Catapult

Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 054458290X
• ASIN: 054458290X
• ISBN: 054458290X
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection. 

• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

TABOO LESBIAN EROTICA : 30 EROTIC STORIES COLLECTION

Tempting and taboo women... being turned on, pleasured and satisfied in all sorts of delightfully dirty ways! 30 stories of extreme erotica that is sure to blow your... well, you get the idea!

• ASIN: B07T3DSZLG
• ASIN: B07T3DSZLG

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame Book 1)

• ASIN: B078H73XY9
• ASIN: B078H73XY9
• Manufacturer: Tor Books

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as 'The New Gilded Age' a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of the sparkling moments of humanity interwoven between the moments of crisis, Best of Times, Worst of Times features short stories by such renowned writers as Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, and many others, whose distinctive authorial voices lend urgency and a sense of heighte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0814796281
• UPC: 884481873359
• ASIN: 0814796281
• ISBN: 0814796281
• Brand: Brand: NYU Press
• Manufacturer: NYU Press

The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab ho... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547939418
• ASIN: 0547939418
• ISBN: 0547939418
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection

The Best American Catholic Short Stories captures twenty of the best short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers over the past seventy-five years. Spanning most of the twentieth century, the stories in this collection deal with many of the issues brought into the spotlight with Vatican II. Pat Schnapp and Dan McVeigh have assembled an extraordinary collection that is unique in its subject and scope. Major contributors include Mary Gordon, Flannery O'Connor, Ron Hansen, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Richard Russo.

• ASIN: 1580512100
• ASIN: 1580512100
• ISBN: 1580512100
• Brand: Brand: Sheed n Ward
• Manufacturer: Sheed & Ward

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

The Best American Short Stories 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world.In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547554834
• ASIN: 0547554834
• ISBN: 0547554834
• Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Short Stories 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).

• ASIN: 0547868863
• ASIN: 0547868863
• ISBN: 9780547868868
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 616290935

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2013

The Best American Short Stories is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction, guest edited in 2012 by Pultizer Prize winner Elizabeth

• UPC: 22750202
• Rating: 3.5

Children of the Night : The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present

In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a

• UPC: 53328607

Best Short Stories of Jack London, Paperback by London, Jack, Brand New, Free...

• UPC: 383410268936
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

Best Short Stories, Paperback by Maupassant, Guy de, Brand New, Free shipping...

• UPC: 193245822327
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

Pen America Best Debut Short Stories 2019, Paperback by Igarashi, Yuka (EDT),...

• UPC: 362888980274
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 13 USD

Best Short Stories, Paperback by Kipling, Rudyard, Brand New, Free shipping i...

• UPC: 274132376049
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

Best Short Stories Of The Modern Age by Douglas Angus 9780449300589 | Brand New

• UPC: 133304124970
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr 9781328484246 | Brand New

• UPC: 133261500179
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 13 USD

Best British Short Stories 2011, Paperback by Royle, Nicholas (EDT), Brand Ne...

• UPC: 383319067404
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD

Best American Short Stories 2019, Hardcover by Doerr, Anthony (EDT); Pitlor, ...

• UPC: 383273334353
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 20 USD

Best British Short Stories 2015 (Paperback)

• UPC: 333513967095
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 15 USD

Best American Short Stories 2019, Paperback by Doerr, Anthony (EDT); Pitlor, ...

• UPC: 274138263984
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD