Women's Short Stories

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 63,236 ratings
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Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating β€” 121,482 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating β€” 40,389 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€” 25,466 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating β€” 90,541 ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 4.22 avg rating β€” 21,771 ratings
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Don't Look Now and Other Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 9,391 ratings
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Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating β€” 7,179 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€” 48,600 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€” 23,066 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating β€” 222,949 ratings
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Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)
Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1) 3.94 avg rating β€” 13,688 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating β€” 26,126 ratings
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,892 ratings
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories 3.68 avg rating β€” 23,816 ratings
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Revenge
Revenge 4.02 avg rating β€” 27,951 ratings
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,904 ratings
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker 4.33 avg rating β€” 11,889 ratings
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Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer 4.04 avg rating β€” 2,734 ratings
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 3,360 ratings
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,818 ratings
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The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories
The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories 3.62 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
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The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories
The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories 3.85 avg rating β€” 683 ratings
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Bark
Bark 3.60 avg rating β€” 8,977 ratings
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Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird (Magic Carpet Books)
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird (Magic Carpet Books) 3.69 avg rating β€” 809 ratings
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 3.64 avg rating β€” 14,301 ratings
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher 3.44 avg rating β€” 11,189 ratings
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The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories 4.30 avg rating β€” 266 ratings
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Orange World and Other Stories
Orange World and Other Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 6,568 ratings
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Lovely, Dark, Deep
Lovely, Dark, Deep 3.62 avg rating β€” 2,052 ratings
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People From My Neighbourhood
People From My Neighbourhood 3.50 avg rating β€” 12,161 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,882 ratings
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The State We're In: Maine Stories
The State We're In: Maine Stories 3.04 avg rating β€” 1,031 ratings
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library 4.05 avg rating β€” 99,095 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,548 ratings
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The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6)
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6) 4.27 avg rating β€” 62,720 ratings
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales 3.89 avg rating β€” 26,323 ratings
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating β€” 3,440 ratings
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Hunger: A Novella and Stories
Hunger: A Novella and Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,824 ratings
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The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,008 ratings
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Grand Union
Grand Union 3.26 avg rating β€” 9,591 ratings
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Dear Life
Dear Life 3.75 avg rating β€” 39,626 ratings
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The Goodbye Cat: Seven Cat Stories
The Goodbye Cat: Seven Cat Stories 3.89 avg rating β€” 8,713 ratings
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
The Awakening and Selected Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,507 ratings
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The Age of Grief
The Age of Grief 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,602 ratings
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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin 4.10 avg rating β€” 683 ratings
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Bobcat and Other Stories
Bobcat and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,876 ratings
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Public Library and Other Stories
Public Library and Other Stories
by: Ali Smith
3.52 avg rating β€” 5,131 ratings
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Local Girls
Local Girls 3.62 avg rating β€” 6,593 ratings
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Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4.20 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,440 ratings
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The Birds and Other Stories
The Birds and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating β€” 14,193 ratings
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
by: Jean Kerr
3.91 avg rating β€” 4,318 ratings
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 102,310 ratings
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A Bird in the House
A Bird in the House 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,868 ratings
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The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories 3.46 avg rating β€” 1,800 ratings
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves 3.79 avg rating β€” 13,004 ratings
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Florida
Florida 3.77 avg rating β€” 34,595 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating β€” 203,032 ratings
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Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 27,361 ratings
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Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-2000
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-2000 4.24 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Asleep
Asleep 3.77 avg rating β€” 15,367 ratings
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Female Trouble
Female Trouble 3.94 avg rating β€” 424 ratings
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Music for Wartime
Music for Wartime 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,950 ratings
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Acts of God
Acts of God 3.51 avg rating β€” 522 ratings
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
A Phoenix First Must Burn 3.95 avg rating β€” 3,179 ratings
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Pistols for Two and Other Stories
Pistols for Two and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,033 ratings
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The Trouble I've Seen
The Trouble I've Seen 4.34 avg rating β€” 205 ratings
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Absalom's Mother & Other Stories
Absalom's Mother & Other Stories 3.92 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Pretty Monsters: Stories
Pretty Monsters: Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 6,163 ratings
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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,979 ratings
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Woman Hollering Creek & The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek & The House on Mango Street 4.20 avg rating β€” 1,257 ratings
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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold 3.77 avg rating β€” 7,356 ratings
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Sisters in Fantasy
Sisters in Fantasy 3.53 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,301 ratings
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Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating β€” 8,257 ratings
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Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,539 ratings
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Stripping and Other Stories
Stripping and Other Stories 3.58 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Bodies of Water
Bodies of Water 3.86 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Blueprints for Building Better Girls 3.57 avg rating β€” 2,732 ratings
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings 4.25 avg rating β€” 15,625 ratings
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Kingdoms of Elfin
Kingdoms of Elfin 3.94 avg rating β€” 439 ratings
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,822 ratings
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Among the Mushrooms
Among the Mushrooms 4.23 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers
Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers 3.67 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins 3.88 avg rating β€” 8,155 ratings
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Shiloh and Other Stories
Shiloh and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,401 ratings
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Antarctica
Antarctica 3.84 avg rating β€” 14,898 ratings
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The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense 3.62 avg rating β€” 1,491 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 4.15 avg rating β€” 40,550 ratings
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Cursed Bunny
Cursed Bunny 3.76 avg rating β€” 37,410 ratings
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating β€” 18,092 ratings
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Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,824 ratings
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Nine Women: Stories
Nine Women: Stories 3.84 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,851 ratings
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Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 590 ratings
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In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,152 ratings
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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 2,722 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 4.24 avg rating β€” 6,877 ratings
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