8 must-read short story collection books like The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld

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…

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Cover of Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

1. Lake Wobegon Days

By: Garrison Keillor

3.64

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A young narrator chronicles his coming-of-age in Minnesota's Lake Wobegon, a fictitious small town … read more

Similar categories in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • adult fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog."

-Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

"He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either."

-Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

"The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future."

-Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

"Good old Norwegian cooking: you don't read much about that, or about good old Norwegian hospitality."

-Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

Cover of Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

2. Kill the Boy Band

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just know from the start that it wasn't supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near the… read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's Kill the Boy Band book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2016 by Junot Díaz, Heidi Pitlor

3. The Best American Short Stories 2016

By: Junot Díaz , Heidi Pitlor

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Diaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short St… read more

Similar categories in Junot Díaz's The Best American Short Stories 2016 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2017 by Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor

4. The Best American Short Stories 2017

By: Meg Wolitzer , Heidi Pitlor

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest s… read more

Similar categories in Meg Wolitzer's The Best American Short Stories 2017 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

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

5. The Best American Short Stories 2015

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle , Victor Lodato , Heidi Pitlor , None

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories,guest e… read more

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6. High Tide in Tucson

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark th… read more

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7. The America's Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Great Cook

By: America's Test Kitchen

3.96

Format: 286 pages,

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8. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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9. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Liberation Day book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer

10. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Sean Greer's The Best American Short Stories 2022 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee

11. 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

Similar categories in Min Jin Lee's The Best American Short Stories 2023 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley

12. What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why

By: David Allen Sibley

4.41

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the… read more

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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

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • adult fiction
  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Essays 2022 by Alexander Chee

14. 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

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's The Best American Essays 2022 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®) by Jesmyn Ward

16. 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

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®) book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 by Veronica Roth

17. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

By: Veronica Roth

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams a… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay

18. The Best American Short Stories 2018

By: Roxane Gay

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best America… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's The Best American Short Stories 2018 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard

19. 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

Similar categories in Ladee Hubbard's The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 by C.J. Box

20. The Best American Mystery Stories 2020

By: C.J. Box

3.92

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and E… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr

21. 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

Similar categories in Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019 book and Curtis Sittenfeld's The Best American Short Stories 2020

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

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