Personal Favorites: Short Story Collections

1.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,839 ratings
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Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,362 ratings
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Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money 3.72 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
Selected Stories of Andre Dubus 4.27 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories
by: Lee Child
3.95 avg rating — 24,916 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,389 ratings
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The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,587 ratings
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Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Short Cuts: Selected Stories 4.10 avg rating — 6,807 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating — 2,548 ratings
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Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating — 16,399 ratings
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating — 25,467 ratings
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line 3.76 avg rating — 224 ratings
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You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories 3.42 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
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Short Tails: Chet & Bernie Short Stories
Short Tails: Chet & Bernie Short Stories 4.13 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote 4.18 avg rating — 6,398 ratings
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Sweet Land Stories
Sweet Land Stories 3.89 avg rating — 999 ratings
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The World of Jeeves (Jeeves, #2-4)
The World of Jeeves (Jeeves, #2-4) 4.48 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 4.15 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Scouting for the Reaper
Scouting for the Reaper 3.96 avg rating — 434 ratings
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32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics
32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics 4.07 avg rating — 6,073 ratings
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1)
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1) 4.17 avg rating — 10,575 ratings
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The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections 4.17 avg rating — 35,966 ratings
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 3.67 avg rating — 10,525 ratings
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories 3.81 avg rating — 3,467 ratings
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Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories
Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories 4.16 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,642 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4.30 avg rating — 320,275 ratings
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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories 3.85 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,143 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 — 48,600 ratings
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The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)
The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2) 4.42 avg rating — 49,442 ratings
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The Best American Short Stories 2017
The Best American Short Stories 2017 3.85 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The Call of the Wild and White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 78,578 ratings
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How Far She Went: Stories
How Far She Went: Stories
by: Mary Hood
3.98 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Callahan's, #2)
Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Callahan's, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 3,870 ratings
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The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire
The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire 4.23 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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And Venus Is Blue: Stories
And Venus Is Blue: Stories
by: Mary Hood
4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series) 3.35 avg rating — 94 ratings
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First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories 3.79 avg rating — 864 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 3.92 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
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By Any Other Name
By Any Other Name 3.88 avg rating — 464 ratings
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M Is for Magic
M Is for Magic 3.81 avg rating — 18,805 ratings
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The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,739 ratings
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Pwning Tomorrow
Pwning Tomorrow 3.60 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Lust and Other Stories
Lust and Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Men Without Women
Men Without Women 3.74 avg rating — 121,062 ratings
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
The Stories of Ray Bradbury 4.43 avg rating — 5,413 ratings
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story
The Granta Book of the American Short Story 3.97 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Best American Short Stories 1991
The Best American Short Stories 1991 3.83 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse
Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse 3.66 avg rating — 2,931 ratings
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Moebius 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories (The Collected Fantasies of Jean Giraud, #2)
Moebius 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories (The Collected Fantasies of Jean Giraud, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge 4.22 avg rating — 21,771 ratings
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Other Worlds Other Gods
Other Worlds Other Gods
by: Mayo Mohs
3.77 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe 3.75 avg rating — 11,468 ratings
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories 4.33 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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User Friendly
User Friendly 3.74 avg rating — 487 ratings
61.
Self-Help
Self-Help 4.11 avg rating — 15,451 ratings
61.
Death's Excellent Vacation
Death's Excellent Vacation 3.72 avg rating — 10,478 ratings
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Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories 3.41 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Other Worlds Other Seas
Other Worlds Other Seas 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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How it Ended
How it Ended 3.49 avg rating — 961 ratings
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An Apple for the Creature (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
An Apple for the Creature (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) 3.87 avg rating — 8,023 ratings
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Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories
Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories 4.24 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 36,326 ratings
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Among the Missing
Among the Missing
by: Dan Chaon
4.04 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
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Big Cat and Other Stories
Big Cat and Other Stories 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Redeployment
Redeployment
by: Phil Klay
3.96 avg rating — 24,885 ratings
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Los Angeles Stories
Los Angeles Stories
by: Ry Cooder
3.62 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition 3.76 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs 4.37 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Books of Baseball
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Books of Baseball 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by Comic Book Professionals
Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by Comic Book Professionals 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Best of British Science Fiction 2018
Best of British Science Fiction 2018 3.97 avg rating — 100 ratings
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When the Women Come Out to Dance : Stories
When the Women Come Out to Dance : Stories 3.95 avg rating — 7,923 ratings
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales 3.53 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
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Spawn of Mars and Other Stories (The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists Library, 12)
Spawn of Mars and Other Stories (The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists Library, 12) 4.17 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Book of Guys
The Book of Guys 3.40 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories
All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories 3.58 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales 4.41 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
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Doctorow: Collected Stories
Doctorow: Collected Stories 3.74 avg rating — 193 ratings
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U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories
U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Rootabaga Stories, Part One
Rootabaga Stories, Part One 4.06 avg rating — 749 ratings
87.
A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) 4.24 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
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Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review
Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Stories of the Modern South
Stories of the Modern South 3.97 avg rating — 110 ratings
91.
Come Go Home with Me
Come Go Home with Me 4.40 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Doctor Stories
The Doctor Stories 3.86 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Runner's Literary Companion: Great Stories and Poems About Running
The Runner's Literary Companion: Great Stories and Poems About Running 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
95.
The Cat's Pajamas: Stories
The Cat's Pajamas: Stories 3.72 avg rating — 2,276 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories
Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories 4.37 avg rating — 625 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.23 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake 4.15 avg rating — 6,510 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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Very Short Stories to Read Together (You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, 1)
Very Short Stories to Read Together (You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, 1) 4.26 avg rating — 875 ratings
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