Best Selling Short Story Collections - April 2024

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." But alongside these often-anthologized tales, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain's "Cannib... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199744394
• ASIN: 0199744394
• ISBN: 0199744394
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The 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: B078FGZ95D
• ASIN: B078FGZ95D
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection (Miss Marple Mysteries)

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00FDRWK7Q
• ASIN: B00FDRWK7Q
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Sticky Fingers: 12 Deliciously Twisted Short Stories (Sticky Fingers Collection Book 1)

Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 12 short stories by USA Today bestselling author JT Lawrence include:ESCAPEA suicidal baby knows he was born into the wrong life. He has to get creative to correct the mistake, much to his mother's horror.THE ITCHAn intense, uncontrollable, unexplainable itch lands the protagonist in a mental institution.BRIDGE GATEIn this poignant and charming short story, a daughter yearns to connect with her absent father through the letters they exchange. She's not put off by his pedantic corrections of her writing, despit... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01F6FAQZC
• ASIN: B01F6FAQZC
• Manufacturer: Fire Finch Press

Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms

Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive. Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western countries, written over five centuries by more than 200 contributors, including major authors of every era. Fables, histories, aphorisms, anecdotes, faux dictionary entries, a faux jo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0892554320
• ASIN: 0892554320
• ISBN: 9780892554324
• Manufacturer: Persea

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction."The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chla... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CCK567G
• ASIN: B07CCK567G
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Little Worlds : A Collection of Short Stories for the Middle School

The purpose of this text was to make available a large collection of stories that are high in literary quality yet accessible to middle-school students. Its widespread acceptance in schools throughout the country attests that this anthology has indeed achieved its goal. It presents students with a variety of issues, styles, conflicts, and points of view through the stories of Maupassant, Lessing, Hemingway, Welty, Hawthorne, Porter, as well as many others.

• ASIN: 1877653527
• ASIN: 1877653527
• ISBN: 1877653527
• Brand: Wayside Publishing
• Manufacturer: Wayside Publishing

Fifty Great Short Stories (Bantam Classics)

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

• ASIN: 0553277456
• ASIN: 0553277456
• ISBN: 0553277456
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

The 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: B01N7HZA3K
• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from alifetime of words and ideas -- tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys backward and forward in time; classic stories with the undiminished power to tantalize, mystify, elate, and move the reader to tears. Each small... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CKOV7WE
• ASIN: B00CKOV7WE
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Short Stories from the Neighborhood: A Collection of Nostalgic Writers

The year 2019 marked the 50th reunion for the Carbondale Community High School class of 1969. As part of the reunion festivities, Dr. Bob Pankey invited his high school classmates and some others to submit stories about growing up in the small Midwestern college town in the 1950s and '60s. Part reminiscence, part oral history, and part whimsy, the resulting book is a multi-faceted look back at a small town America in the middle of the previous century, before smartphones, social media, or even cable TV. The authors of these short stories share their personal recollections while addressing such... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1080603492
• ASIN: 1080603492
• ISBN: 1080603492
• Manufacturer: Independently published

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

• ASIN: 0684843323
• ASIN: 0684843323
• ISBN: 9780684843322
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

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

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 3

The popular series is back! Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also

• UPC: 582197770

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable

• UPC: 743425
• Rating: 3.75

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals,

• UPC: 24757814
• Rating: 4.667

Middle Unearthed : The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849

Before there was a lovable green ogre called Shrek and a bespeckled wizard named Harry Potter, there were the best fantasy short stories published in English during the first half of the nineteenth century. These

• UPC: 635749035
• Rating: 5.0

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집

Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 25 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean

• UPC: 365957756

Best American Catholic Short Stories : A Sheed & Ward Collection

This volume captures 20 of the best short stories from 13 American Catholic writers over the past 75 years. Spanning most of the 20th century, the stories in this collection deal with many of the

• UPC: 25647209

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The Best American Humorous Short

• UPC: 9728734
• Rating: 3.0

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 Humorous Short Stories

The Best American Humorous Short

• UPC: 10198706
• Rating: 3.0

The Best American Short Stories 2002

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals,

• UPC: 46423645
• Rating: 2.5

Short Story Masterpieces The Bestselling Collection of Our Time

• UPC: 372932058482
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 25 USD

Willy And Alvirah: Collection Of #1 Bestselling Short Stories By Mary Good

• UPC: 401568813935
• Category: Audiobooks
• Price: 19 USD