Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century

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Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
by: Zack Love
4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
2.
Tenth of December
Tenth of December 3.98 avg rating — 80,043 ratings
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Impromptu Scribe
Impromptu Scribe 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Knockout
Knockout 4.02 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Litost: Sliced Stories
Litost: Sliced Stories 4.62 avg rating — 224 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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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You 3.60 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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Small Screen Big Lies
Small Screen Big Lies 4.83 avg rating — 6 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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Without Expiration: A Personal Anthology
Without Expiration: A Personal Anthology 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Ten Tales of a Dark Tomorrow
Ten Tales of a Dark Tomorrow 4.16 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The Light at the End of the Day: A Short Story Collection (Short Stories Book 1)
The Light at the End of the Day: A Short Story Collection (Short Stories Book 1) 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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My Life As A Woman: World Edition: Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond
My Life As A Woman: World Edition: Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Shortbread: Glasgow Tales
Shortbread: Glasgow Tales 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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In the Twilight of their Lives: Twenty True strange, intriguing, even funny stories happening in life's last moments
In the Twilight of their Lives: Twenty True strange, intriguing, even funny stories happening in life's last moments it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life’S Uncertain Journeys: A Lgbtq Short Story Collection
Life’S Uncertain Journeys: A Lgbtq Short Story Collection 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Tactics of Lost Minds
Tactics of Lost Minds
by: Tye M.T.
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories
The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories 4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Innocent Intentions: 244 Word Experiences for Lovers Book 3 in the Sacred Love Secrets Series
Innocent Intentions: 244 Word Experiences for Lovers Book 3 in the Sacred Love Secrets Series
by: Sherifa
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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King Acid and Other Essays
King Acid and Other Essays
by: Pat King
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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Who We Are
Who We Are 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1
5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
25.
We Live in Water
We Live in Water 3.91 avg rating — 6,545 ratings
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Diving Belles
Diving Belles
by: Lucy Wood
3.50 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
25.
Fortune Smiles
Fortune Smiles 4.02 avg rating — 11,011 ratings
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Open Your Eyes (5 Stories of Original Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Open Your Eyes (5 Stories of Original Fantasy & Science Fiction) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Maker of Gargoyles
The Maker of Gargoyles 3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings
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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 3.67 avg rating — 50,913 ratings
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Incidental Contact: The Weird Menace Adventures of O'Ryan and His Ostrich
Incidental Contact: The Weird Menace Adventures of O'Ryan and His Ostrich 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Middle Men: Stories
Middle Men: Stories
by: Jim Gavin
3.82 avg rating — 976 ratings
32.
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories 3.73 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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Anthropology
Anthropology 3.57 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Orientation and Other Stories
Orientation and Other Stories 3.78 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid 3.30 avg rating — 647 ratings
36.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,642 ratings
38.
Temporary Stories: A Short Story
Temporary Stories: A Short Story 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
39.
Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays
Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays
by: Nick Voro
4.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
40.
Donkey Boy and Other Stories
Donkey Boy and Other Stories 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Drastic Measures
Drastic Measures 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Strange Concentrate
Strange Concentrate 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Man with the Aura
The Man with the Aura 4.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Body Farm: Stories
The Body Farm: Stories
by: Abby Geni
4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Of Fathers & Gods
Of Fathers & Gods it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,972 ratings