Contemporary Short Story Collections

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Men Without Women
Men Without Women 3.74 avg rating — 121,058 ratings
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Demonology
Demonology 3.42 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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Dark Roots
Dark Roots 3.61 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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Death Is Not an Option
Death Is Not an Option 3.74 avg rating — 754 ratings
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 3.75 avg rating — 7,113 ratings
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The Odditorium: Stories
The Odditorium: Stories 3.64 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Signs and Wonders
Signs and Wonders 3.79 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The View from the Seventh Layer
The View from the Seventh Layer 4.03 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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Throw Like a Girl: Stories
Throw Like a Girl: Stories 3.46 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Sweet Land Stories
Sweet Land Stories 3.89 avg rating — 999 ratings
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The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck 4.23 avg rating — 48,396 ratings
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The Lemon Table
The Lemon Table 3.67 avg rating — 3,735 ratings
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Baptisms & Dogs: Stories
Baptisms & Dogs: Stories 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Impromptu Scribe
Impromptu Scribe 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Bits and Pieces: Short Stories from a Writer's Soul
Bits and Pieces: Short Stories from a Writer's Soul
by: C.J. Heck
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Middle Ground: Stories
The Middle Ground: Stories 4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings
113.
All's Fair and Other California Stories
All's Fair and Other California Stories 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Burning Bright
Burning Bright
by: Ron Rash
4.11 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
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Sandcastle and Other Stories: The Complete Edition
Sandcastle and Other Stories: The Complete Edition 4.36 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Bed
Bed
by: Tao Lin
3.66 avg rating — 1,878 ratings
120.
Look! Look! Feathers
Look! Look! Feathers 4.36 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Other Kinds
Other Kinds 4.06 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition
Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition 4.12 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Mothers and Sons
Mothers and Sons 3.78 avg rating — 2,639 ratings
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In the Forest of Forgetting
In the Forest of Forgetting 3.94 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Sinners of Sanction County
Sinners of Sanction County 4.41 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Sabrina & Corina
Sabrina & Corina 4.18 avg rating — 14,680 ratings
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Holiday in Cambodia
Holiday in Cambodia 3.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Trouble: Stories
Trouble: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,824 ratings
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The Water Museum
The Water Museum 4.03 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) 3.95 avg rating — 7,923 ratings
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Widow: Stories
Widow: Stories 4.16 avg rating — 161 ratings
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May We Shed These Human Bodies
May We Shed These Human Bodies 4.02 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls 3.81 avg rating — 3,357 ratings
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The Wonder Garden
The Wonder Garden 3.57 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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I Want to Show You More
I Want to Show You More 3.65 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
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The Angel Esmeralda
The Angel Esmeralda 3.72 avg rating — 4,107 ratings
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Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
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Bear and His Daughter: Stories
Bear and His Daughter: Stories 3.94 avg rating — 426 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 — 22,205 ratings
142.
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq 3.82 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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Magic for Beginners
Magic for Beginners 3.80 avg rating — 10,117 ratings
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Get in Trouble
Get in Trouble 3.67 avg rating — 12,778 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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I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories 3.43 avg rating — 1,352 ratings
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Thunderstruck & Other Stories
Thunderstruck & Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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Man V. Nature
Man V. Nature 3.97 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
149.
The Watch: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)
The Watch: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by: Rick Bass
4.15 avg rating — 922 ratings
150.
Mother of Sorrows
Mother of Sorrows 3.94 avg rating — 380 ratings
150.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 3.84 avg rating — 42,533 ratings
150.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You 4.06 avg rating — 4,238 ratings
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Love and Obstacles
Love and Obstacles 3.83 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
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Barbara the Slut and Other People
Barbara the Slut and Other People 3.54 avg rating — 5,273 ratings
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Florida
Florida 3.77 avg rating — 34,595 ratings
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by: Ken Liu
4.36 avg rating — 36,816 ratings
157.
The Heaven of Animals
The Heaven of Animals 4.21 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
158.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher 3.44 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
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The Isle of Youth: Stories
The Isle of Youth: Stories 3.89 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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Windeye: Stories
Windeye: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Charity
Charity 3.84 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Fresh Complaint
Fresh Complaint 3.61 avg rating — 9,502 ratings
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Married Love and Other Stories
Married Love and Other Stories 3.66 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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Female Trouble
Female Trouble 3.94 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Forty Stories
Forty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 3,508 ratings
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Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Night at the Fiestas: Stories 4.08 avg rating — 1,954 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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Cheating at Canasta
Cheating at Canasta 3.82 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Through the Safety Net
Through the Safety Net 3.95 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Homesick for Another World
Homesick for Another World 3.61 avg rating — 39,799 ratings
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Love and Longing in Bombay
Love and Longing in Bombay 3.58 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
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Where the Money Went
Where the Money Went 3.84 avg rating — 196 ratings
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A Life of Adventure and Delight
A Life of Adventure and Delight 3.46 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 3.64 avg rating — 14,301 ratings
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Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories 3.43 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Tooth and Claw
Tooth and Claw 3.81 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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The Husband's Dilemma: Stories
The Husband's Dilemma: Stories 2.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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How It Was for Me: Stories
How It Was for Me: Stories 3.85 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Don't Cry
Don't Cry 3.63 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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More Weird Tales Including The Bad Review
More Weird Tales Including The Bad Review 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
180.
Toast
Toast 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
180.
The Sense of Touch
The Sense of Touch 4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings
180.
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories 4.04 avg rating — 93 ratings
180.
The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction
The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction 3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings
180.
Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume 1
Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume 1 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
180.
Encore
Encore 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
180.
Hallow's Eve Triptych
Hallow's Eve Triptych liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories
Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
180.
Miserable Holiday Stories
Miserable Holiday Stories 2.94 avg rating — 67 ratings
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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This 3.77 avg rating — 2,655 ratings
180.
Ed Jameson | Four Parts of the Universe: Prequel
Ed Jameson | Four Parts of the Universe: Prequel 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
180.
The Voice of Willie Morgan and Two Other Short Stories
The Voice of Willie Morgan and Two Other Short Stories 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
180.
It Is Time and Other Stories
It Is Time and Other Stories 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
180.
Matachewan: Postcards from Lisa Dee
Matachewan: Postcards from Lisa Dee
by: Lisa Dee
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
180.
Offbeat Love Stories and More
Offbeat Love Stories and More 3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
180.
Lick the Razor
Lick the Razor 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings
180.
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
by: Zack Love
4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
180.
Doll Palace
Doll Palace 4.41 avg rating — 125 ratings
180.
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash fiction
Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash fiction 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
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