Best American Short Stories Anthology - April 2024

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

100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
• ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

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

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
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,” contends Louise Penny in her introduction. “In a short story there is nowhere to hide. Each must be original, fresh, inspired.” Originality is just what’s in store for readers of the twenty clever, creative selections in The Best American M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544949099
• ASIN: 0544949099
• ISBN: 0544949099
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

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 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, despite the slow reveal that he is ... [Read More]

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

The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328484246
• ASIN: 1328484246
• ISBN: 1328484246
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)

The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of Jam... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374523541
• ASIN: 0374523541
• ISBN: 0374523541
• Brand: Hill and Wang
• Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary H... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416532277
• ASIN: 1416532277
• ISBN: 9781416532279
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679745130
• ASIN: 0679745130
• ISBN: 0679745130
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

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 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: 0544582896
• ASIN: 0544582896
• ISBN: 0544582896
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

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

"Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—al­though there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underwor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544949080
• ASIN: 0544949080
• ISBN: 0544949080
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

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 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 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 Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction : 50 North American Stories Since 1970

More than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors were surveyed and asked to select the best literature written since 1970. The short stories included in this anthology represent the best

• UPC: 5437411

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,

• UPC: 19511015
• Rating: 5.0

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 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

The Best American Humorous Short Stories - eBook

Although every literary tradition has its own rich vein of humor writing, there's something about American humor that sets it apart from the pack in terms of accessibility and lack of pretension. This volume includes

• UPC: 988432917
• Rating: 3.0

Stephen King Introduction Best American Short Stories Anthology Paperback

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD

America's Best Short Fiction: An Eclectic Anthology of American Short Stories by

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• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 24 USD

The Best American Short Stories 1951 Yearbook Antique Literature Anthology Book

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• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 15 USD

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, Paperback by Machado, Carmen ...

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD

THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2019 ~ SIGNED Carmen Maria Machado

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

The Best American Short Stories 1996 - John Edgar Wideman - SC - 1996 - Houghton

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 1 USD

The Best American Short Stories 2008 2010 2012 Softcover

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 10 USD

Carmen M Machado, BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY 2019 PB 1ST.1ST New!

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
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100 Years Of The Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 9781328604378 | Brand New

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD