Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)

101.
The Boat
The Boat
by: Nam Le
3.62 avg rating β€” 5,996 ratings
102.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating β€” 73,387 ratings
103.
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (The Unreal and the Real, #2)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (The Unreal and the Real, #2) 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,857 ratings
104.
Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
by: Amy Bloom
3.54 avg rating β€” 3,250 ratings
104.
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 4.09 avg rating β€” 4,653 ratings
106.
Nice Big American Baby
Nice Big American Baby 3.88 avg rating β€” 668 ratings
106.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,112 ratings
106.
Bluebeard's Egg
Bluebeard's Egg 3.74 avg rating β€” 7,693 ratings
109.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories 3.70 avg rating β€” 3,352 ratings
109.
Collected Stories, 1939-1976
Collected Stories, 1939-1976 4.40 avg rating β€” 763 ratings
111.
In Persuasion Nation
In Persuasion Nation 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,333 ratings
112.
Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus 3.86 avg rating β€” 21,380 ratings
113.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum 4.14 avg rating β€” 71,254 ratings
114.
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,398 ratings
115.
The Love of a Good Woman
The Love of a Good Woman really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 9,551 ratings
115.
Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,141 ratings
117.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,548 ratings
117.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales 4.17 avg rating β€” 74,601 ratings
119.
Selected Short Stories
Selected Short Stories 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,419 ratings
120.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You 4.06 avg rating β€” 4,238 ratings
120.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 4.12 avg rating β€” 11,548 ratings
122.
The Overcoat
The Overcoat 4.15 avg rating β€” 49,042 ratings
123.
Friend of My Youth
Friend of My Youth 4.05 avg rating β€” 5,290 ratings
123.
Selected Tales
Selected Tales 3.80 avg rating β€” 116 ratings
125.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating β€” 5,786 ratings
126.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,008 ratings
127.
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
128.
The New Yorker Stories
The New Yorker Stories 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,355 ratings
129.
Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,539 ratings
130.
A Guide to Being Born
A Guide to Being Born 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,265 ratings
131.
Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,474 ratings
132.
Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories
Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,458 ratings
133.
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories 3.94 avg rating β€” 3,289 ratings
133.
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,984 ratings
135.
20th Century Ghosts
20th Century Ghosts
by: Joe Hill
3.90 avg rating β€” 46,892 ratings
136.
Don't Kiss Me: Stories
Don't Kiss Me: Stories 3.67 avg rating β€” 506 ratings
137.
The Moons of Jupiter
The Moons of Jupiter 3.90 avg rating β€” 5,186 ratings
138.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.30 avg rating β€” 395 ratings
139.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating β€” 16,588 ratings
139.
Hall of Small Mammals: Stories
Hall of Small Mammals: Stories 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,312 ratings
141.
Impromptu Scribe
Impromptu Scribe 4.06 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
141.
The Middle Ground: Stories
The Middle Ground: Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
143.
The Typist
The Typist 4.06 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
144.
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,795 ratings
145.
Home Remedies
Home Remedies 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,441 ratings
146.
The Early Stories, 1953-1975
The Early Stories, 1953-1975 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,748 ratings
147.
The Hypothetical Girl: Stories
The Hypothetical Girl: Stories 3.40 avg rating β€” 220 ratings
147.
Changing Planes
Changing Planes 3.86 avg rating β€” 7,023 ratings
149.
The Angel on the Roof
The Angel on the Roof 3.90 avg rating β€” 956 ratings
149.
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 3.67 avg rating β€” 50,913 ratings
151.
Handleiding voor poetsvrouwen
Handleiding voor poetsvrouwen 4.19 avg rating β€” 35,024 ratings
152.
Rhoda: A Life in Stories
Rhoda: A Life in Stories 4.21 avg rating β€” 722 ratings
153.
Lawyers in Hell
Lawyers in Hell 4.46 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
154.
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,304 ratings
154.
Twilight of the Superheroes
Twilight of the Superheroes 3.62 avg rating β€” 1,498 ratings
156.
When It Happens to You
When It Happens to You 3.58 avg rating β€” 5,732 ratings
156.
Public Library and Other Stories
Public Library and Other Stories
by: Ali Smith
3.52 avg rating β€” 5,131 ratings
156.
Good Bones and Simple Murders
Good Bones and Simple Murders 3.87 avg rating β€” 3,326 ratings
159.
The Tell-Tale Heart (Penguin Little Black Classics, #31)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Penguin Little Black Classics, #31) 4.24 avg rating β€” 117,098 ratings
159.
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,355 ratings
161.
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,694 ratings
161.
North American Lake Monsters
North American Lake Monsters 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,159 ratings
163.
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,703 ratings
164.
Primeiro Amor, Últimos Ritos
Primeiro Amor, Últimos Ritos 3.63 avg rating β€” 7,254 ratings
165.
Learning to Kiss in the Snow
Learning to Kiss in the Snow really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
166.
Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,301 ratings
167.
The Frangipani Hotel: Stories
The Frangipani Hotel: Stories 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,060 ratings
168.
Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook) 3.82 avg rating β€” 588 ratings
169.
A Permanent Member of the Family
A Permanent Member of the Family 3.61 avg rating β€” 1,503 ratings
169.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol 4.35 avg rating β€” 15,179 ratings
171.
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating β€” 18,092 ratings
172.
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado 4.08 avg rating β€” 85,823 ratings
173.
Dancing After Hours
Dancing After Hours 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,723 ratings
173.
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Moral Disorder and Other Stories 3.64 avg rating β€” 12,522 ratings
175.
Kissing in Manhattan: Stories
Kissing in Manhattan: Stories 3.59 avg rating β€” 3,259 ratings
175.
The Invention of Morel and Other Stories
The Invention of Morel and Other Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 134 ratings
175.
The Night In Question: Stories
The Night In Question: Stories 4.16 avg rating β€” 5,919 ratings
175.
The Black Cat
The Black Cat 4.03 avg rating β€” 54,340 ratings
179.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Who Do You Think You Are? 3.90 avg rating β€” 7,191 ratings
180.
Errantry: Strange Stories
Errantry: Strange Stories 3.94 avg rating β€” 574 ratings
181.
The Fun Parts
The Fun Parts 3.54 avg rating β€” 1,615 ratings
182.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death 4.06 avg rating β€” 44,766 ratings
183.
A Haunted House And Other Short Stories
A Haunted House And Other Short Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 5,175 ratings
184.
Burning Bright
Burning Bright
by: Ron Rash
4.11 avg rating β€” 3,478 ratings
184.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,781 ratings
186.
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) 4.13 avg rating β€” 608 ratings
186.
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating β€” 2,138 ratings
188.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer 4.38 avg rating β€” 2,198 ratings
188.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.21 avg rating β€” 914 ratings
190.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
by: Lu Xun
3.90 avg rating β€” 1,250 ratings
191.
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail: Stories
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail: Stories 3.55 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
191.
Antarctica
Antarctica 3.84 avg rating β€” 14,899 ratings
193.
The Outlaw Album
The Outlaw Album 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,354 ratings
194.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,995 ratings
194.
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,783 ratings
196.
Creatures of Habit
Creatures of Habit 3.82 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
197.
The Stories of Paul Bowles
The Stories of Paul Bowles 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,207 ratings
198.
WHATS IMPORTANT FEELING
WHATS IMPORTANT FEELING 3.52 avg rating β€” 284 ratings
198.
Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,330 ratings
200.
The Age of Wire and String
The Age of Wire and String 3.70 avg rating β€” 1,727 ratings
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