Best Contemporary Short Fiction

1.
All The Places We Lived
All The Places We Lived 4.09 avg rating — 78 ratings
2.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,039 ratings
3.
Seven Lives to Repay Our Country
Seven Lives to Repay Our Country 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
4.
Enough! Thirty Stories of Fielding Life's Little Curve Balls
Enough! Thirty Stories of Fielding Life's Little Curve Balls 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
5.
The Crecian Experience
The Crecian Experience 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
6.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven 4.09 avg rating — 26,665 ratings
7.
Electric Literature no. 1 (Volume 1)
Electric Literature no. 1 (Volume 1) 4.13 avg rating — 75 ratings
7.
Scenting the Dark
Scenting the Dark 3.38 avg rating — 68 ratings
7.
Blink and the World Goes Blank
Blink and the World Goes Blank 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
7.
Spring Water
Spring Water 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
7.
Breakfast is Severed
Breakfast is Severed 3.61 avg rating — 54 ratings
7.
Unaccompanied Minors
Unaccompanied Minors 4.38 avg rating — 73 ratings
7.
Impromptu Scribe
Impromptu Scribe 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
7.
The Typist
The Typist 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
7.
Goodpoint: We see only what we focus on. Although what we don't focus on can change our lives.
Goodpoint: We see only what we focus on. Although what we don't focus on can change our lives. 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
16.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,105 ratings
16.
Grandmere's Secret
Grandmere's Secret 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
18.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
18.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.17 avg rating — 8,691 ratings
18.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
21.
The Nimrod Flipout
The Nimrod Flipout 3.95 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
22.
Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus 3.86 avg rating — 21,380 ratings
22.
Love and Other Stories
Love and Other Stories 4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings
24.
Lantern Slides: Short Stories
Lantern Slides: Short Stories 3.61 avg rating — 186 ratings
25.
The Toughest Indian in the World
The Toughest Indian in the World 4.08 avg rating — 7,053 ratings
26.
Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating — 16,399 ratings
26.
What Remains and Other Stories
What Remains and Other Stories 3.50 avg rating — 669 ratings
26.
How the World Will End & other stories
How the World Will End & other stories 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
26.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
26.
Heads & Tales
Heads & Tales 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
26.
Red Dot Irreal
Red Dot Irreal 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
26.
Chapter One: Janey
Chapter One: Janey 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
26.
The Gay Icon Contemporary Short Stories
The Gay Icon Contemporary Short Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
26.
The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction
The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction 3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings
26.
Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story
Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story 3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
26.
Small Screen Big Lies
Small Screen Big Lies 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Soft Ground
The Soft Ground 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
26.
Hellkite
Hellkite 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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DAMN! I'M 40!: Bus Ride Back
DAMN! I'M 40!: Bus Ride Back it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Five Moral Tales
Five Moral Tales it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
26.
Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories
Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
26.
The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults)
The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults) 4.49 avg rating — 960 ratings
43.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 4.21 avg rating — 22,038 ratings
43.
Tales Of The Night
Tales Of The Night 3.80 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
43.
Hawkfall and Other Stories
Hawkfall and Other Stories 4.18 avg rating — 115 ratings
43.
You Can Finish This Later
You Can Finish This Later 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
43.
Blues'n How to Play'em: A Short Story
Blues'n How to Play'em: A Short Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
43.
The Switch II: Clockwork
The Switch II: Clockwork 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
43.
Inappropriate Behavior: Stories
Inappropriate Behavior: Stories 3.58 avg rating — 95 ratings
43.
Saline
Saline really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
43.
Growing a New Tail
Growing a New Tail 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
43.
Motherwit
Motherwit 4.28 avg rating — 116 ratings
43.
Short Stories: Five Decades
Short Stories: Five Decades 4.21 avg rating — 269 ratings
54.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Like You'd Understand, Anyway 3.86 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
54.
Entrekin
Entrekin 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
56.
The Stories of Eva Luna
The Stories of Eva Luna 3.97 avg rating — 22,776 ratings
57.
Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,363 ratings
57.
East, West
East, West 3.55 avg rating — 8,002 ratings
57.
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians 4.06 avg rating — 6,946 ratings
60.
Rock Springs
Rock Springs 4.06 avg rating — 5,688 ratings
61.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.46 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
62.
Finbar's Hotel
Finbar's Hotel 3.42 avg rating — 713 ratings
63.
Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel
Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 3.39 avg rating — 715 ratings
64.
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins 3.88 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
65.
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories 3.85 avg rating — 4,431 ratings
66.
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice 3.87 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
67.
Little Black Book of Stories
Little Black Book of Stories 3.79 avg rating — 2,796 ratings
68.
Speaking with the Angel
Speaking with the Angel 3.51 avg rating — 5,960 ratings
69.
Jump and Other Stories
Jump and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
70.
Loot and Other Stories
Loot and Other Stories 3.62 avg rating — 310 ratings
71.
The Earth and the Sky: Stories
The Earth and the Sky: Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
72.
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating — 18,092 ratings
73.
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 3.98 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
74.
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard 4.14 avg rating — 3,238 ratings
75.
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories 4.05 avg rating — 11,126 ratings
76.
Night Shift
Night Shift 4.04 avg rating — 194,127 ratings
77.
The Complete Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories 3.93 avg rating — 322 ratings
78.
The Fallen Curtain
The Fallen Curtain 3.85 avg rating — 581 ratings
79.
Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories
Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 712 ratings
80.
Coronado: Stories
Coronado: Stories 3.40 avg rating — 4,176 ratings