An eclectic selection of excellent short story collections
Discover an eclectic selection of excellent short story collections, handpicked for literary lovers. Explore captivating tales from renowned authors and hidden gems in this curated list.
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Runaway
by Alice Munro
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway …
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The …
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Blackbird House
by Alice Hoffman
Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of …
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Kolyma Tales
by Varlam Shalamov
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent …
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of …
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All Aunt Hagar's Children
by Edward P. Jones
In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known …
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
From the surreal to the mundane, an anthology of short fiction captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship in works that chronicle …
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New Sudden Fiction
by Robert Shapard
An all-new volume—students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read. Responding to America’s love affair with the short-short, …
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The Boat
by Nam Le
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection take us across the globe, guiding us to the heart of what it means to be human. …