Short Story Collections by African-Americans Published in Decade: 2000s

1.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.87 avg rating — 7,779 ratings
2.
Glow in the Dark: Stories
Glow in the Dark: Stories 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
3.
Gigantic
Gigantic 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
4.
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns 4.14 avg rating — 768 ratings
5.
The Portable Promised Land
The Portable Promised Land
by: Touré
4.13 avg rating — 211 ratings
6.
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) 4.21 avg rating — 175 ratings
7.
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
8.
Lost in the City
Lost in the City 4.07 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
9.
Free: And Other Stories
Free: And Other Stories 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
10.
Tales of the Out and the Gone
Tales of the Out and the Gone 3.57 avg rating — 205 ratings
11.
Get Down
Get Down 3.80 avg rating — 127 ratings
12.
Water Street
Water Street 3.99 avg rating — 363 ratings
13.
God's Gym: Stories
God's Gym: Stories 3.67 avg rating — 93 ratings
14.
Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories
Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories 3.50 avg rating — 189 ratings
15.
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories 3.39 avg rating — 114 ratings
16.
Damned If I Do
Damned If I Do 3.90 avg rating — 698 ratings
17.
This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History
This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History 3.95 avg rating — 56 ratings
18.
Soulcatcher and Other Stories
Soulcatcher and Other Stories 3.95 avg rating — 115 ratings
19.
Holding Pattern: Stories
Holding Pattern: Stories 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings
20.
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States 3.98 avg rating — 751 ratings
21.
A Place between Stations
A Place between Stations 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
22.
Blackberries, Blackberries
Blackberries, Blackberries 4.16 avg rating — 499 ratings
23.
Meteor in the Madhouse
Meteor in the Madhouse 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
24.
Break Any Woman Down
Break Any Woman Down 4.10 avg rating — 290 ratings