The Best American Short Stories 2013
By: Elizabeth Strout , Heidi Pitlor
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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1. Too Much Happiness: Stories
By: Alice Munro
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
2. Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
By: Alice Munro
4.16
Format: 620 pages, Hardcover
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and one of our most beloved writers—a new sel… read more
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3. 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
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- literary fiction
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4. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
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- contemporary
5. 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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6. The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)
By: James Patterson , Otto Penzler
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best myst… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
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7. 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
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- literary fiction
- literature
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
8. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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9. 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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10. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
11. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
12. The Best American Mystery Stories 2014
By: Laura Lippman
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn't take detecting… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Thunderstruck & Other Stories
By: Elizabeth McCracken
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more
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16. The Magician's Assistant
By: Ann Patchett
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sabine-- twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-- is suddenly a wido… read more
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17. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
18. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
19. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir
By: Farah Naz Rishi
4.23
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more
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20. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.98
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more
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- fiction
"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
21. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
