6 Best collections books like The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay

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…

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1. The Man from Beijing

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only c… read more

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  • fiction
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2. 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

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

3. 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

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

4. 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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5. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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6. The Best American Short Stories 2014

By: Jennifer Egan , Heidi Pitlor , None

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American sho… read more

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7. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

By: Padma Lakshmi

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces the arc … read more

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8. 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
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer

9. 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
  • american
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. 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
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of I Walk Between the Raindrops by T.C. Boyle

12. I Walk Between the Raindrops

By: T.C. Boyle

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully tol… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld

14. 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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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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 story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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

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  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series) by John Sandford

17. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series)

By: John Sandford

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Number-one New York Times best-selling author John Sandford Entertainment Weekly—selects the best … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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 Roxane Gay's The Best American Short Stories 2018

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (Best Mystery Stories, 2) by Sara Paretsky

19. The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (Best Mystery Stories, 2)

By: Sara Paretsky

3.72

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious… read more

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

20. 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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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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 Stories No One Hopes Are About Them by A.J. Bermudez

21. Stories No One Hopes Are About Them

By: A.J. Bermudez

3.92

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

17 Top fiction books like The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay

The Man from Beijing

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Short Stories 2016

Junot Díaz , Heidi Pitlor

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Meg Wolitzer , Heidi Pitlor

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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20 Best fiction books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series) by John Sandford

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

Robert B. Parker , Otto Penzler

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Empress File (Kidd & LuEllen, #2)

John Sandford , None

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

Harlan Coben , Otto Penzler

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Fool's Run (Kidd & LuEllen, #1)

John Sandford , None

4.67

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