Badass Women Authors Killing the Prose/Short Fiction Game

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The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating β€” 82,498 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating β€” 338,281 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 63,244 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating β€” 48,601 ratings
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Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,539 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating β€” 40,390 ratings
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The Shawl
The Shawl 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,788 ratings
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Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works 4.44 avg rating β€” 922 ratings
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Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating β€” 7,179 ratings
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,795 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating β€” 203,041 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 338,281 ratings
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,026 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating β€” 8,257 ratings
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The Collected Short Stories
The Collected Short Stories
by: Jean Rhys
4.04 avg rating β€” 576 ratings
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A Haunted House And Other Short Stories
A Haunted House And Other Short Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 5,176 ratings
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Willful Creatures: Stories
Willful Creatures: Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,375 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,882 ratings
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 23,067 ratings
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Honored Guest
Honored Guest 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,230 ratings
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Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,783 ratings
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The Ballad of the Sad CafΓ© and Other Stories
The Ballad of the Sad CafΓ© and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating β€” 25,468 ratings
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The Birds
The Birds 3.90 avg rating β€” 6,262 ratings
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Battleborn
Battleborn 4.12 avg rating β€” 5,353 ratings
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Magic for Beginners
Magic for Beginners 3.80 avg rating β€” 10,118 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,548 ratings
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Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 893 ratings
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Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating β€” 16,399 ratings
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How to Breathe Underwater
How to Breathe Underwater 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,554 ratings
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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 810 ratings
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 580 ratings
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The Puzzleheaded Girl: Four Novellas
The Puzzleheaded Girl: Four Novellas 3.39 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Too Much Happiness: Stories
Too Much Happiness: Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 24,580 ratings
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Little Tales of Misogyny
Little Tales of Misogyny 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,155 ratings
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Twilight and Other Stories
Twilight and Other Stories 3.17 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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From the Lanai and Other Hawaiian Stories
From the Lanai and Other Hawaiian Stories 3.10 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,141 ratings
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White Walls: Collected Stories
White Walls: Collected Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 590 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant 4.36 avg rating β€” 419 ratings
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Where Europe Begins
Where Europe Begins 3.83 avg rating β€” 590 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 461 ratings
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Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior 3.87 avg rating β€” 13,210 ratings
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Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,275 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating β€” 7,260 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,523 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 3,361 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 4.24 avg rating β€” 6,878 ratings
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Love in a Fallen City
Love in a Fallen City 3.94 avg rating β€” 4,335 ratings
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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,518 ratings
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Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration
Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration 3.92 avg rating β€” 221 ratings
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales 3.61 avg rating β€” 4,523 ratings
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The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
by: Li Ang
3.98 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Get in Trouble
Get in Trouble 3.67 avg rating β€” 12,778 ratings
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Claretta Street
Claretta Street 4.23 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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How to Walk on Water and Other Stories
How to Walk on Water and Other Stories 4.20 avg rating β€” 111 ratings
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White Rabbits
White Rabbits 3.60 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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Dryad
Dryad really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War 3.85 avg rating β€” 308,532 ratings
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The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories
The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,301 ratings
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Last Summer at Mars Hill
Last Summer at Mars Hill 3.89 avg rating β€” 350 ratings
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 102,323 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,356 ratings
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The River Has Roots
The River Has Roots 4.05 avg rating β€” 16,098 ratings
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Ayiti
Ayiti 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,128 ratings
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Don't Look Now and Other Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 9,392 ratings
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The Birds and Other Stories
The Birds and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating β€” 14,195 ratings
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The Claw
The Claw 3.19 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,112 ratings
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In The Year Of Long Division: Stories
In The Year Of Long Division: Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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On the Golden Porch
On the Golden Porch 3.91 avg rating β€” 327 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,158 ratings
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The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,301 ratings
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Errantry: Strange Stories
Errantry: Strange Stories 3.94 avg rating β€” 574 ratings
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February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy
February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy 4.01 avg rating β€” 338 ratings
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,781 ratings
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Later the Same Day
Later the Same Day 4.06 avg rating β€” 627 ratings
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Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales 3.80 avg rating β€” 793 ratings
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Paris Stories
Paris Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,686 ratings
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Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories
Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories 4.14 avg rating β€” 467 ratings
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Aunt RΓ©sia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Aunt RΓ©sia and the Spirits and Other Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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I sweep the sun off rooftops: Stories
I sweep the sun off rooftops: Stories 3.54 avg rating β€” 390 ratings
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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,738 ratings
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The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 4,243 ratings
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The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women 3.92 avg rating β€” 38 ratings