The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®)
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
2. Cutting Lisa
By: Percival Everett
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
"Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbl… read more
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3. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
By: John Freeman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Vampires in the Lemon Grove
By: Karen Russell
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--… read more
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5. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series edi… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- 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
7. 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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- school
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- short stories
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. 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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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
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
10. América del Norte
By: Nicolás Medina Mora
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A young man from an elite Mexican family travels back and forth between the United States and Mexic… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- contemporary
- audiobook
12. The Best American Essays 2023
By: Vivian Gornick
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gor… read more
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- anthologies
13. Zero-Sum: Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acc… read more
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- anthologies
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- contemporary
14. 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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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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
- school
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16. 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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- anthologies
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- audiobook
17. 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
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
18. 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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- class
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- anthologies
- read for school
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays
By: Athena Dixon
3.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: Tracy K. Smith
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f… read more
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- anthologies
- read for school
21. The Best American Travel Writing 2021
By: Padma Lakshmi
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in … read more
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- anthologies
22. 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
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- fiction
- short stories
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- audiobook
23. The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021: A Collection
By: Alafair Burke
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- adult
- anthologies
24. 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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"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
25. 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
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26. Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories
By: David Means
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer). David … read more
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27. The Golden State
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother … read more
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"It’s not very comforting,"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"...motherhood is not a house you live in but a warren of beautiful rooms, something like Topkapi … some well-trod but magnificent place you’re only allowed to sit in for a minute and snap a photo bef…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"The drive is supposed to take six and a half hours but somehow we have been on the road for eight when we come to the wooden sign sunk into grass that signifies the entrance to Deakins Park, and alth…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
28. 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
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29. 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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- 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
30. The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2022
By: Jess Walter
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times be… read more
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31. 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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