Oregon City Adult Short Stories Genre List

Short story books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated August 1, 2025
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Blasphemy : [new and selected stories]
Alexie, Sherman
Paper Book
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award...
Old babes in the wood : stories
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together...
Harbor lights : stories
Burke, James Lee
Paper Book
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published...
Death wears a beauty mask : and other stories
Clark, Mary Higgins
Paper Book
A one-of-a-kind mystery collection that showcases the immense storytelling talent #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has honed over her tremendous career--including a bone-chilling, previously unpublished short story forty years in the making. In 1974,...
Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances
Gaiman, Neil
Paper Book
From one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers of our time comes a major new collection of stories, now available in a pulp-inspired mass market edition with cover art by renowned artist Robert McGinnis! In this wide-ranging collection of short fiction,...
Uncommon type : some stories
Hanks, Tom
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today * A collection of "first-rate" short stories (The New York Times) that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. A small-town newspaper...
Endless summer : stories
Hilderbrand, Elin
Paper Book
The "queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) presents nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket--and days that last forever--to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her most...
How are you going to save yourself
Holmes, J. M.
Paper Book
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by...
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Hurston, Zora Neale
Paper Book
From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)--the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times'...
So late in the day : stories of women and men
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered...
You like it darker : stories
King, Stephen
Paper Book
NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR "" background-color:="">FINALIST FOR THE 2025 LOCUS AWARDS "Stephen King knows You Like It Darker<...
Seasonal work : stories
Lippman, Laura
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today's top crime writers in this acclaimed collection of suspenseful stories featuring fierce women--including one never-before-published novella. "A first-rate collection, an obvious must for the legions of Lippman...
The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer
Mona?e, Janelle
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller! In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums,...
The awkward black man : stories
Mosley, Walter
Paper Book
A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers--award-winning author, Walter Mosley. Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for...
Dear life : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new...
The jealousy man and other stories
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cockroaches and "the greatest contemporary writer of the thriller" (The New York Times)--a dark and chilling short story collection that takes us on a journey of twisted minds and vengeful hearts. Jo Nesbø is...
The (other) you : stories
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different...
Love & other crimes : stories
Paretsky, Sara
Paper Book
"Sara Paretsky is a genius." --LEE CHILD From New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky, a collection of thrilling crime and detective short stories, many featuring legendary detective V.I. Warshawski--including a brand-new V.I. story. New York Times bestselling author...
The world doesn't require you : stories
Scott, Rion Amilcar
Paper Book
Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations--like the screecher...
Night of the living rez
Talty, Morgan
Ebook
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.   In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author...
Filthy animals
Taylor, Brandon
Paper Book
In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities...
Table for two : fictions
Towles, Amor
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller "This may be Towles' best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef's main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart." --Los Angeles Times "The book spans the 20th century,...
Welcome to the monkey house : a collection of short works
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Paper Book
" Kurt Vonnegut strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending."-TheCharlotte Observer Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally...

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