Contemporary Short Story Collections

1.
Tenth of December
Tenth of December 3.98 avg rating β€” 80,034 ratings
2.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating β€” 203,022 ratings
3.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating β€” 39,231 ratings
4.
Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating β€” 16,399 ratings
5.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 4.21 avg rating β€” 22,037 ratings
6.
Dear Life
Dear Life 3.75 avg rating β€” 39,623 ratings
7.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth 4.14 avg rating β€” 95,607 ratings
8.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating β€” 36,958 ratings
9.
We Love Anderson Cooper
We Love Anderson Cooper 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,062 ratings
10.
After the Quake
After the Quake 3.77 avg rating β€” 57,206 ratings
11.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned 3.88 avg rating β€” 9,090 ratings
12.
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,665 ratings
13.
Karmic Krackers
Karmic Krackers
by: Dab10
4.53 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
14.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories 3.68 avg rating β€” 23,817 ratings
15.
Memory Wall
Memory Wall 4.08 avg rating β€” 9,249 ratings
16.
How to Breathe Underwater
How to Breathe Underwater 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,554 ratings
17.
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
18.
Small Matters
Small Matters 4.11 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
19.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating β€” 25,636 ratings
20.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
No One Belongs Here More Than You 3.80 avg rating β€” 43,860 ratings
21.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 259,593 ratings
22.
Volt
Volt 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,639 ratings
23.
The Shell Collector
The Shell Collector 3.99 avg rating β€” 17,948 ratings
24.
Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 27,361 ratings
25.
Battleborn
Battleborn 4.12 avg rating β€” 5,353 ratings
26.
Stay Awake
Stay Awake
by: Dan Chaon
3.67 avg rating β€” 2,807 ratings
27.
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 3.83 avg rating β€” 6,308 ratings
28.
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 23,063 ratings
29.
All The Places We Lived
All The Places We Lived 4.09 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
30.
That Sadie Thing
That Sadie Thing 4.44 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
31.
Willful Creatures: Stories
Willful Creatures: Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,375 ratings
32.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating β€” 120,090 ratings
33.
Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating β€” 5,794 ratings
34.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt 3.86 avg rating β€” 8,013 ratings
35.
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories 3.94 avg rating β€” 3,289 ratings
36.
Honored Guest
Honored Guest 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,230 ratings
37.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven 4.09 avg rating β€” 26,666 ratings
38.
Like Life
Like Life 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,575 ratings
39.
Lost in the City
Lost in the City 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,483 ratings
40.
The Tsar of Love and Techno
The Tsar of Love and Techno 4.27 avg rating β€” 18,025 ratings
41.
The Boat
The Boat
by: Nam Le
3.62 avg rating β€” 5,996 ratings
42.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Like You'd Understand, Anyway 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,842 ratings
43.
A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
by: Tim Weed
3.99 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
44.
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake 4.15 avg rating β€” 6,510 ratings
45.
In Persuasion Nation
In Persuasion Nation 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,333 ratings
46.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories 4.02 avg rating β€” 22,465 ratings
47.
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories 3.85 avg rating β€” 3,128 ratings
48.
This Is How You Lose Her
This Is How You Lose Her 3.74 avg rating β€” 99,562 ratings
49.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 3.74 avg rating β€” 8,193 ratings
50.
2013: A Stellar Collection
2013: A Stellar Collection 4.07 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
51.
Too Much Happiness: Stories
Too Much Happiness: Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 24,578 ratings
52.
You Think That's Bad
You Think That's Bad 3.88 avg rating β€” 710 ratings
53.
The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness
The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness
by: Rick Bass
4.17 avg rating β€” 692 ratings
54.
The Theory of Light and Matter
The Theory of Light and Matter 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,436 ratings
55.
The Dead Fish Museum
The Dead Fish Museum 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,722 ratings
55.
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,270 ratings
57.
Oblivion
Oblivion 4.07 avg rating β€” 15,563 ratings
58.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,132 ratings
58.
The View from Castle Rock
The View from Castle Rock 3.68 avg rating β€” 5,503 ratings
60.
Unaccompanied Minors
Unaccompanied Minors 4.38 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
61.
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,304 ratings
62.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,587 ratings
63.
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Cowboys Are My Weakness 4.08 avg rating β€” 7,249 ratings
64.
Big Bad Love
Big Bad Love 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,327 ratings
65.
Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,301 ratings
66.
Half in Love: Stories
Half in Love: Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,202 ratings
67.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall 3.51 avg rating β€” 31,550 ratings
68.
Middle Men: Stories
Middle Men: Stories
by: Jim Gavin
3.82 avg rating β€” 976 ratings
69.
The Dog of the Marriage: Stories
The Dog of the Marriage: Stories 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,427 ratings
70.
We Live in Water
We Live in Water 3.91 avg rating β€” 6,545 ratings
71.
Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar
Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar 4.60 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
72.
The Nimrod Flipout
The Nimrod Flipout 3.95 avg rating β€” 5,475 ratings
73.
Praying Drunk
Praying Drunk 3.75 avg rating β€” 933 ratings
74.
How They Were Found
How They Were Found
by: Matt Bell
4.06 avg rating β€” 377 ratings
75.
All the Names They Used for God
All the Names They Used for God 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,637 ratings
76.
Nice Big American Baby
Nice Big American Baby 3.88 avg rating β€” 668 ratings
77.
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 3.91 avg rating β€” 62,820 ratings
78.
Friend of My Youth
Friend of My Youth 4.05 avg rating β€” 5,290 ratings
79.
The Fun Parts
The Fun Parts 3.54 avg rating β€” 1,615 ratings
80.
This Is Not Your City
This Is Not Your City 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,127 ratings
81.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,335 ratings
82.
Children of the New World
Children of the New World 3.75 avg rating β€” 3,977 ratings
83.
Diving Belles
Diving Belles
by: Lucy Wood
3.50 avg rating β€” 1,081 ratings
84.
Farewell Navigator: Stories
Farewell Navigator: Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 303 ratings
85.
The Empty Family: Stories
The Empty Family: Stories 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,518 ratings
85.
Watering Heaven
Watering Heaven 4.16 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
87.
Rock Springs
Rock Springs 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,688 ratings
88.
Hurt Others
Hurt Others
by: Sam Pink
4.18 avg rating β€” 535 ratings
88.
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere 3.50 avg rating β€” 13,501 ratings
90.
Jagannath
Jagannath 4.02 avg rating β€” 4,179 ratings
91.
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money 3.72 avg rating β€” 562 ratings
92.
Χ€Χͺאום Χ“Χ€Χ™Χ§Χ” Χ‘Χ“ΧœΧͺ
Χ€Χͺאום Χ“Χ€Χ™Χ§Χ” Χ‘Χ“ΧœΧͺ 3.92 avg rating β€” 7,970 ratings
92.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating β€” 7,777 ratings
94.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating β€” 337,431 ratings
95.
Refresh, Refresh
Refresh, Refresh 3.92 avg rating β€” 760 ratings
96.
Almost No Memory
Almost No Memory 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,267 ratings
97.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.02 avg rating β€” 74,790 ratings
98.
Fun with Problems: Stories
Fun with Problems: Stories 3.28 avg rating β€” 385 ratings
99.
Dangerous Laughter
Dangerous Laughter 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,339 ratings
100.
Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,141 ratings
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