Best Short Story Writers In English - April 2024

Squall

This book is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.Bush pilot and family man Tom Stokes is about to face the worst day of his life. On a clear winter morning, he sets out to do some repairs on a remote hunt camp, leaving his five-year-old son and very pregnant wife snug in their beds.On the return trip, a squall forces him into an emergency landing and he winds up—quite literally—in the lap of petty criminal Dale Knight. Dale, now a fugitive from the law—and worse, from a merciless drug lord who just happens to be his brother—draws Tom into a web of mayhem and treachery that puts not o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00RPM9MJ6
• ASIN: B00RPM9MJ6
• Manufacturer: Red Tower Publications

Honeymoon Cottage (A Pajaro Bay Mystery Book 1)

• ASIN: B0190LLDKA
• ASIN: B0190LLDKA
• Manufacturer: Pajaro Bay Publishing

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062316117
• ASIN: 0062316117
• ISBN: 9780062316110
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250066212
• ASIN: 1250066212
• ISBN: 1250066212
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the 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 century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316599239
• ASIN: 0316599239
• ISBN: 0316599239
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Great Gatsby

A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriousl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743273567
• ASIN: 0743273567
• ISBN: 9780743273565
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Overstory: A Novel

• ASIN: B073VX7HT4
• ASIN: B073VX7HT4
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Handfasters (Lowland Romance Book 1)

Scotland, 1811. Coming from the Highlands to Edinburgh in search of a husband, Alison Lamont finds herself in all sorts of trouble.Thrown out of a fashionable ball for a stolen kiss, Alison flees from a riot in the notorious Old Town and meets Willie Kemp, an eccentric boatbuilder. While she falls deeply in love with Mr. Kemp, her aunt wishes her to marry the obnoxious but rich John Forres.Alison takes drastic measures to solve her dilemma, including a long trip through the snow-covered Pentland Hills. But who left the mysterious footprints outside her cottage, and what secrets is Mr. Kemp hid... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009QNR1NQ
• ASIN: B009QNR1NQ
• Manufacturer: Creativia

Big Little Lies

DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274861
• ASIN: 0425274861
• ISBN: 0425274861
• Brand: Moriarty Liane
• Manufacturer: Berkley

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547577311
• ASIN: 0547577311
• ISBN: 0547577311
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501173219
• ASIN: 1501173219
• ISBN: 1501173219
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Things They Carried

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.  Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618706410
• UPC: 046442706414
• ASIN: 0618706410
• ISBN: 0544309766
• Brand: Tim O Brien
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Now a New York Times Bestseller!As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she agreed to date him. His grades weren't good enough to get into law school, so he sat on a bench outside the Dean’s office for seven days until they finally let him enroll. Bob Goff has become something of a legend, and his friends consider him the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400203759
• UPC: 884200612511
• ASIN: 1400203759
• ISBN: 1400203759
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

New York Times Bestseller!What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits.Driven by Bob’s trademark storytelling, Everybody, Always reveals the lessons Bob learned--often the hard way--about what i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718078136
• ASIN: 0718078136
• ISBN: 0718078136
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

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

Great Short Stories by African-American Writers

A collection of short stories from influential African-American authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica

• UPC: 10850907
• Rating: 5.0

Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery : Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

A collection of short fiction selected by members of New York's acclaimed creative writing school presents works that range from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," to "A Romantic Weekend by Mary

• UPC: 2547270
• Rating: 5.0

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

Great Short Short Stories : Quick Reads by Great Writers

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories -- each just six or fewer pages in length -- features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Includes

• UPC: 3501017
• Rating: 4.0

Arab Women Writers : An Anthology of Short Stories

Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen insights into what Arab women feel and think.

• UPC: 3525533
• Rating: 4.0

Best Short Stories from Great Writers - eBook

A collection of some of the best short stories from great writers ranging from Balzac, Chekov, Maupassant to Zola among many others. This special edition edited by Ozdemir brings some of the works of the

• UPC: 441990407

Best Russian Short Stories, in English translation - eBook

12 illustrations. This collection includes: THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Pushkin, THE CLOAK (AKA The Overcoat) by Gogol, THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by Turgenev, THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by Dostoyevsky, GOD SEES THE TRUTH,

• UPC: 931634085

The Great English Short-Story Writers - eBook

A collection of thirteen short stories from some of the best classic authors of history, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Defoe and Robert Louis

• UPC: 447909976

The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 - eBook

The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage

• UPC: 456534200

American Fiction : The Best in Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers

• UPC: 143312205760
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD