13 Top anthologies books like The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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…

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Winter Garden

By: Pablo Neruda , William O'Daly

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing death from cancer, Neruda wrote no book more direct and passionate in its language, and this… read more

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2. Man Walks Into a Room

By: Nicole Krauss

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquirem… read more

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3. Cat Person

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.67

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herse… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Lauren Groff

6. 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

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
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7. 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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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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8. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • adult fiction
  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more

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  • anthologies
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld

12. The Best American Short Stories 2020

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.71

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first ti… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

13. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) by Valeria Luiselli

14. 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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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®) by Jesmyn Ward

15. The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®)

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Apartment

By: Teddy Wayne

3.78

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leavi…"

-Teddy Wayne, Apartment

"Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that w…"

-Teddy Wayne, Apartment

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17. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories

By: Ladee Hubbard

3.68

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of s… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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19. The Best American Short Stories 2019

By: Anthony Doerr

3.65

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sen… read more

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  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill."

-Anthony Doerr, The Best American Short Stories 2019

"I sat with my father, Leo, at the kitchen table and got drunk with him for the first time. He told me to beware of crazy women, angry women, passionate women. He told me they would ruin me. “But they…"

-Anthony Doerr, The Best American Short Stories 2019

Cover of The Best American Essays 2021 by Kathryn Schulz

20. The Best American Essays 2021

By: Kathryn Schulz

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff w… read more

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  • anthologies
Cover of Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize by Yuka Igarashi

21. Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize

By: Yuka Igarashi

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The annual--and essential--collection of the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

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3.67

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3.67

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3.77

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3.72

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3.75

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Rebecca Roanhorse

3.72

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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