12 Best anthologies books like The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr

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…

"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

"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 are also the best women,"

-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 are also the best women,"

-Anthony Doerr, The Best American Short Stories 2019

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Joyce Carol Oates, None, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Geraldine Brooks, Nathan Englander, Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte, Allegra Goodman, Steven Millhauser, Tom Bissell, Rebecca Makkai, Elizabeth McCracken, None, Claire Keegan, Mark Slouka, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Heidi Pitlor, Caitlin Horrocks, Bret Anthony Johnston, Ricardo Nuila, Jess Row

1. The Best American Short Stories 2011

By: Joyce Carol Oates , None , George Saunders , Richard Powers , Geraldine Brooks , Nathan Englander , Jennifer Egan , Sam Lipsyte , Allegra Goodman , Steven Millhauser , Tom Bissell , Rebecca Makkai , Elizabeth McCracken , None , Claire Keegan , Mark Slouka , Megan Mayhew Bergman , Heidi Pitlor , Caitlin Horrocks , Bret Anthony Johnston , Ricardo Nuila , Jess Row

3.86

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier ann… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's The Best American Short Stories 2011 book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2016 by Junot Díaz, Heidi Pitlor

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

Similar categories in Junot Díaz's The Best American Short Stories 2016 book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • 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

Similar categories in Meg Wolitzer's The Best American Short Stories 2017 book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor

4. The Best American Short Stories 2013

By: Elizabeth Strout , Heidi Pitlor

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasing… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's The Best American Short Stories 2013 book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. 99 Stories of God

By: Joy Williams

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williamshas a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing … read more

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6. 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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7. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more

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8. Eleven

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters,… read more

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9. Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more

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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 Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

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

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni

12. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • audiobook
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 Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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

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

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Reboot by Justin     Taylor

15. Reboot

By: Justin Taylor

3.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Taylor's Reboot book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®) book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

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

17. 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 Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

18. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

By: Azar Nafisi

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power… read more

Similar categories in Azar Nafisi's Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • literature
  • audiobook
"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"...it is not true that we all want the freedom of knowledge, because it comes at a high price. It comes with pain and loneliness; it demands commitment and responsibility."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"In democratic societies, we do not normally resort to physical violence to muffle those with ideas, but we do use other forms of violence: prejudice, censorship, and slander."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr

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

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

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • collections
  • 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 A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

20. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®) by Otto Penzler

21. The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

By: Otto Penzler

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collectio… read more

Similar categories in Otto Penzler's The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®) book and Anthony Doerr's The Best American Short Stories 2019

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

14 Top fiction books like The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Short Stories 2011

Joyce Carol Oates , None , George Saunders , Richard Powers , Geraldine Brooks , Nathan Englander , Jennifer Egan , Sam Lipsyte , Allegra Goodman , Steven Millhauser , Tom Bissell , Rebecca Makkai , Elizabeth McCracken , None , Claire Keegan , Mark Slouka , Megan Mayhew Bergman , Heidi Pitlor , Caitlin Horrocks , Bret Anthony Johnston , Ricardo Nuila , Jess Row

3.86

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

The Best American Short Stories 2013

Elizabeth Strout , Heidi Pitlor

4.19

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13 Top fiction books like The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor

Transform Your Habits

Too Much Happiness: Stories

Alice Munro

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

Alice Munro

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Short Stories 2011

Joyce Carol Oates , None , George Saunders , Richard Powers , Geraldine Brooks , Nathan Englander , Jennifer Egan , Sam Lipsyte , Allegra Goodman , Steven Millhauser , Tom Bissell , Rebecca Makkai , Elizabeth McCracken , None , Claire Keegan , Mark Slouka , Megan Mayhew Bergman , Heidi Pitlor , Caitlin Horrocks , Bret Anthony Johnston , Ricardo Nuila , Jess Row

3.86

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Dear Life: Stories

Alice Munro

2.50

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