I Meant It Once: Stories
By: Kate Doyle
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This “gorgeous, electric” collection of short stories is about the inner lives of young women durin…
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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
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
5. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
6. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
7. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
8. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
By: Raul Palma
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
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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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
12. I Meant It Once: Stories
By: Kate Doyle
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This “gorgeous, electric” collection of short stories is about the inner lives of young women durin… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
13. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Nonfiction
By: Julie Myerson
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Grand Tour: Poems
By: Elisa Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more
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16. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
By: Erica Berry
3.55
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more
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"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
17. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
By: Cleo Qian
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. I Am My Country: And Other Stories
By: Kenan Orhan
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything”… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
20. Let the Games Begin
By: Rufaro Faith Mazarura
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura’s … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire
By: Samantha Hurley
4.17
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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