Short Story Collections You Must Read

1.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,486 ratings
2.
The Battle of Ebulon
The Battle of Ebulon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Penny Dread Tales: Volume Three: In Darkness Clockwork Shine
Penny Dread Tales: Volume Three: In Darkness Clockwork Shine 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Science Fiction Trails 8
Science Fiction Trails 8 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
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Nine Stories
Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 152,913 ratings
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self 4.06 avg rating — 5,036 ratings
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James Herriot's Cat Stories
James Herriot's Cat Stories 4.35 avg rating — 7,431 ratings
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Strange Love - Short Stories and Twisted Tales
Strange Love - Short Stories and Twisted Tales 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Impromptu Scribe
Impromptu Scribe 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Middle Ground: Stories
The Middle Ground: Stories 4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings
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I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
by: Ron Rash
4.31 avg rating — 275 ratings
12.
Sexy Little Bites
Sexy Little Bites 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Toast
Toast 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Diving Belles
Diving Belles
by: Lucy Wood
3.50 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories 3.96 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories 3.99 avg rating — 334 ratings
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Lost in the City: Stories
Lost in the City: Stories 4.07 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
21.
Self-Help
Self-Help 4.11 avg rating — 15,451 ratings
21.
Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories For Women
Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories For Women 3.31 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
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BEYOND THE CAYENNE WALL: Collection of Short Stories
BEYOND THE CAYENNE WALL: Collection of Short Stories 3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales
Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
21.
Signs of a Migrant Worrier
Signs of a Migrant Worrier it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Pork
Pork 4.09 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Naughty Bits: The Invitation / Invite Me In / Soul Strangers / Gilt and Midnight / No Apologies / Anything You Want
Naughty Bits: The Invitation / Invite Me In / Soul Strangers / Gilt and Midnight / No Apologies / Anything You Want 3.53 avg rating — 354 ratings
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CROSSOVER II: Straight Men - Gay Encounters
CROSSOVER II: Straight Men - Gay Encounters 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
21.
More Weird Tales Including The Bad Review
More Weird Tales Including The Bad Review 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
21.
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
by: Ron Rash
4.03 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
21.
The Sense of Touch
The Sense of Touch 4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings
21.
Brief Interludes
Brief Interludes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
21.
Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume 1
Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume 1 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
21.
Nothing But Trouble
Nothing But Trouble 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
21.
The Martian Way and Other Stories
The Martian Way and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 4,771 ratings
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Ain't but Two Days in a Month: The First and the Fifteenth
Ain't but Two Days in a Month: The First and the Fifteenth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
21.
In the Shadows of the Onion Domes: Collected Short Stories
In the Shadows of the Onion Domes: Collected Short Stories 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
21.
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
21.
Small Screen Big Lies
Small Screen Big Lies 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
21.
Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash fiction
Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash fiction 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
21.
An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
by: Dan Groat
4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
21.
The Other Language
The Other Language 3.98 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
21.
Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories
Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
21.
Eight
Eight it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
21.
Naughty Heroes: In And Out Of Uniform
Naughty Heroes: In And Out Of Uniform 4.42 avg rating — 52 ratings
21.
The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
21.
The Complete Short Stories of Saki
The Complete Short Stories of Saki
by: Saki
4.18 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
21.
5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1
5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
49.
Girl Trouble
Girl Trouble 4.07 avg rating — 774 ratings
49.
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Tales from Outer Suburbia
by: Shaun Tan
4.33 avg rating — 9,956 ratings
49.
Bedtime Stories for Lovers
Bedtime Stories for Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
49.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,426 ratings
49.
The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Indian Tales
The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Indian Tales 4.13 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Naughty Bits 2: Favor Me/The Priestess/Taken/Improper Pleasure/Primal Instincts/Caught in the ACT
Naughty Bits 2: Favor Me/The Priestess/Taken/Improper Pleasure/Primal Instincts/Caught in the ACT 3.53 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Historias de Amor Gay de Todo el Mundo
Historias de Amor Gay de Todo el Mundo 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
49.
Monsoon Love and Other Nepali Stories
Monsoon Love and Other Nepali Stories 3.79 avg rating — 61 ratings
49.
Jigs and Reels
Jigs and Reels 3.51 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
49.
Weird Tales
Weird Tales 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
49.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,107 ratings
49.
Four Bare Legs in a Bed
Four Bare Legs in a Bed 3.55 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Strange Worlds - Surreal Stories and Tainted Tales (Strange Stories #2)
Strange Worlds - Surreal Stories and Tainted Tales (Strange Stories #2) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
49.
Hill of Bones (The Medieval Murderers, #7)
Hill of Bones (The Medieval Murderers, #7) 3.65 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston 3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Motherwit
Motherwit 4.28 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction 3.72 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 4.33 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
66.
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories 4.04 avg rating — 28,049 ratings
66.
Naughty Bits 3: An Anthology of Short Erotic Fiction
Naughty Bits 3: An Anthology of Short Erotic Fiction 3.50 avg rating — 58 ratings
66.
ACat, a Hat, and a Piece of String by Harris, Joanne ( Author ) ON Nov-08-2012, Paperback
ACat, a Hat, and a Piece of String by Harris, Joanne ( Author ) ON Nov-08-2012, Paperback 3.64 avg rating — 1,766 ratings
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Eleven Stories
Eleven Stories 3.74 avg rating — 265 ratings
66.
Girls' Night Out, Boys' Night In
Girls' Night Out, Boys' Night In
by: Various
3.24 avg rating — 123 ratings
66.
Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories
Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories
by: Dangle
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
66.
Little Boxes of Bewilderment: Suspense Comedies
Little Boxes of Bewilderment: Suspense Comedies 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings
74.
The Southern Cross: Stories
The Southern Cross: Stories 4.15 avg rating — 126 ratings
74.
Burning Bright
Burning Bright
by: Ron Rash
4.11 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
74.
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain 3.47 avg rating — 239 ratings
74.
Damned If I Do
Damned If I Do 3.90 avg rating — 698 ratings
74.
How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening
How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening 3.08 avg rating — 83 ratings
74.
Holiday in Cambodia
Holiday in Cambodia 3.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
74.
The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies
The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
81.
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories (Washington State Book Award)
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories (Washington State Book Award) 3.93 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
81.
Ordinary Life: Stories
Ordinary Life: Stories 3.95 avg rating — 6,003 ratings
81.
Christmas Collectibles
Christmas Collectibles it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
81.
Postcards from South Africa
Postcards from South Africa 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
81.
The Gold Diggers
The Gold Diggers 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
81.
Circle In the Sand
Circle In the Sand 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
81.
The Thurber Carnival
The Thurber Carnival 4.21 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
81.
Bobcat and Other Stories
Bobcat and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating — 4,876 ratings
81.
A New Leaf: and Other Stories
A New Leaf: and Other Stories 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
90.
Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona
Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona 4.08 avg rating — 236 ratings
90.
New American Story
New American Story 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
90.
Dustbin Cats
Dustbin Cats really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
90.
Public Library and Other Stories
Public Library and Other Stories
by: Ali Smith
3.52 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
90.
Science Fiction
Science Fiction 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Black Cat's Tales
Black Cat's Tales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
95.
Pack of Cards and Other Stories
Pack of Cards and Other Stories 4.05 avg rating — 198 ratings
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When There's Nowhere Else to Run
When There's Nowhere Else to Run 3.37 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Treasured Moments
Treasured Moments 4.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Ride on Rapunzel
Ride on Rapunzel 4.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Way That Water Enters Stone
The Way That Water Enters Stone 4.12 avg rating — 125 ratings
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