13 Top anthologies books like The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Lauren Groff

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The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

By: Lauren Groff

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ry…

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1. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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2. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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3. The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Hive and the Honey: Stories by Paul Yoon

4. The Hive and the Honey: Stories

By: Paul Yoon

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"

-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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5. The Best American Short Stories 2023

By: Min Jin Lee

3.77

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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7. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

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8. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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9. The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

By: Lauren Groff

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ry… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) book and Lauren Groff's The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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10. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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11. Witness: Stories

By: Jamel Brinkley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more

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  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."

-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories

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12. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • short story collection
Cover of The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

13. The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous ye… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
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14. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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15. Emergency

By: Kathleen Alcott

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • short story collection
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16. The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

By: Valeria Luiselli

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chim… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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17. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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18. Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
Cover of The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 by Lisa Unger

19. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

By: Lisa Unger

3.41

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bests… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R.F. Kuang

20. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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21. 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series)

By: Lorrie Moore

4.13

Format: 753 pages, Kindle Edition

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction

18 best-selling fiction books like The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Lauren Groff

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

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Andrew Sean Greer

3.67

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The Hive and the Honey: Stories

Paul Yoon

3.75

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Rebecca Roanhorse

3.72

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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