Best Short Story Collections - 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

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: B00QPI449E
• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

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

The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

"You don’t often get collections, or even anthologies where every story knocks you out, but I’ve been bewildered in the best way over each one [in The Story Prize] so far." —Lillian Li, author of Number One Chinese RestaurantThis anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of the annual winning collections, beginning with Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker and concluding with Elizabeth Strout’s Anything Is Possible.The founder of The Story Prize, Julie Lindsey, and its director, Larry Dark, created this award to addre... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H2T1716
• ASIN: B07H2T1716
• Manufacturer: Catapult

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

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

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 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 cou... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00HUXQ7ES
• ASIN: B00HUXQ7ES
• Manufacturer: Persea

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

Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories

What kind of life will we find in the depths of Europa’s oceans? What kind of life will we allow an AI with human level intelligence? The ten stories in Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories explore these questions and many more.In the near future, humanity builds a colony on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. They tunnel into the ice to explore the dark oceans beneath the moon's surface, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. What they find will change them forever, setting humanity on a path to the stars. But the old conflicts and hatreds of Earth are not so easi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 173366260X
• ASIN: 173366260X
• ISBN: 173366260X
• Manufacturer: Lunarian Press

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 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of “enduring quality” (Chicago Tribune) this year.

• ASIN: 0547055323
• ASIN: 0547055323
• ISBN: 9780547055329
• Brand: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

The Art of the Short Story

This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration of biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate understanding of the works and their authors.

• ASIN: 0321363639
• ASIN: 0321363639
• ISBN: 0321363639
• Brand: Longman Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Pearson

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

Best Of Warner Bros. 5 Film Collection: Romance - The Philadelphia Story / Cat On A Hot Tin Roof / Splendor In The Grass / You've Got Mail / Nights In Rodanthe

Romance [DVD] 88392932725 Movies

• UPC: 27608707
• Color: YOther

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 (Paperback)

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 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

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집 2

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 ideal for advanced Korean

• UPC: 813426023

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

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories : A Miss Marple Collection

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters brings her

• UPC: 15404362
• Rating: 3.783

Dark Bites : A Short Story Collection

The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series includes "Phantom Lover" and "Love Bytes" as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the

• UPC: 34161608
• Rating: 4.333

Fantasy Masterpieces Short Story Collection Years Best Annual Hardcover Book Lot

• UPC: 124152788329
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 17 USD

2 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story Collections - Worlds to Come & Year's Best S-F

• UPC: 362896150629
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

Best Short Stories of Jack London 1953 Hardcover Vintage Collectible

• UPC: 223405343213
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 8 USD

Best Short Stories of Jack London 1953 Hardcover Vintage Collectible PreLib

• UPC: 202925913018
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 24 USD

Officially The Best: 2012 Short Story Collection by Michael Ruiz (English) Hardc

• UPC: 381520524290
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 30 USD

The Best SHORT STORIES of 1919 EDWARD J.O'BRIEN & Yearbook COLLECTIBLE HC VG+

• UPC: 313009997432
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 23 USD

A Collection of Byron's Best Short Stories: An Omnibus of Shorts by Byron Walter

• UPC: 150711125713
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 19 USD

AMERICAN SHORT STORY: COLLECTION OF BEST KNOWN & MEMORABLE by AMERICAN WRITERS

• UPC: 372762785986
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD

Best American Humorous Short Stories Modern Library 87 Hcdj Collectible

• UPC: 332563500341
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 22 USD

American Short Story : A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Short S

• UPC: 223401227950
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD