Short Stories

Adult Fiction - Short Stories

Updated May 19, 2023
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At the mouth of the river of the bees : stories
Johnson, Kij.
Paper Book
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The...
The other language : stories
Marciano, Francesca.
Paper Book
Hailed by The New York Times as "a natural-born storyteller," the acclaimed author of Rules of the Wild gives us nine incandescently smart stories, funny, elegant, and poignant by turns, that explore the power of change--in relationships, in geographies, and across cultures--to...
Somewhere in the city
Muller, Marcia.
Paper Book
A new collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories.
Honeydew : stories
Pearlman, Edith
Paper Book
Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and...
Nothing gold can stay : stories
Rash, Ron
Paper Book
From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear--spanning the Civil War to the present day. <...
Squirrel seeks chipmunk : a modest bestiary
Sedaris, David.
Paper Book
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad...
The unfinished world : and other stories
Sparks, Amber
Paper Book
In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, Amber Sparks's dazzling new collection bursts forth with stories that render the apocalyptic and otherworldly hauntingly familiar. In "The Cemetery for Lost Faces," two orphans translate their grief into taxidermy, artfully...
All that man is
Szalay, David
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life...
Memoirs of a polar bear
Tawada, Y?ko
Paper Book
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East...
Mr. Bones : twenty stories
Theroux, Paul.
Paper Book
A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux   A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A...

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