Short Stories (single author)

  • Turing’s Graveyard

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    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020

    The short stories of Turing’s Graveyard tests the boundaries of science and superstition, reason and faith. They are for readers who can’t wait for the next season of

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    • Author: Hawkins, Terence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: October 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 1733647481
    • Language: English
  • Small Moods

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    Like a cracked crystal ball tagged with black spray paint, these discomforting and darkly hilarious stories unveil a past, present, and future of unexplainable yet bizarrely poetic prophesies and mood

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    • Author: Kowalski, Shane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 154
    • Publish Date: February 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1892061902
    • Language: English
  • Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author

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    Early short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as “an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers” by the New Republic.
    Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was

    • Author: Pynchon, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: April 30, 1985
    • ISBN10: 0316724432
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

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    Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as “bitter Bierce” and “the devil’s lexicographer.” He left behind a nasty reputa… [more below]

    • Author: Bierce, Ambrose
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: December 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0803260717
    • Language: English
  • Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories

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    In this paperback original, new stories by award-winning writer Will Weaver complement selected favorites from his original collection Gravestone Made of Wheat chronicling sweeping changes in Midweste… [more below]

    • Author: Weaver, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 0873515560
    • Language: English
  • Paris Stories

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    A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL

    Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, “radically resha

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    • Author: Gallant, Mavis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: October 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 1590170229
    • Language: English
  • I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

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    ONE OF TIME‘S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit

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    • Author: Van Den Berg, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250798663
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Stories

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    This collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s complete stories provides a window into the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. This edition has been repackaged as a modern classi

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: January 08 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061350184
    • Language: English
  • I Sailed with Magellan

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    Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago’s fabled and harrowing South Side. Unit

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    • Author: Dybek, Stuart
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 307
    • Publish Date: October 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0312424116
    • Language: English
  • A Life of Adventure and Delight

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    Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky” (The Nat[more below]

    • Author: Sharma, Akhil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 28 2018
    • ISBN10: 0393355896
    • Language: English
  • Women! In! Peril!

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    Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.

    In this brash and

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    • Author: Marshall, Jessie Ren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639732276
    • Language: English
  • Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club

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    Stonewall Book Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)

    Sometimes the border is a mirror, sometimes it’s an escape, and sometimes it’s just the bridge you cross to go home.

    All borders entangle

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    • Author: S?enz, Benjamin Alire
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 30 2012
    • ISBN10: 1935955322
    • Language: English
  • Some Trick

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    For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-… [more below]

    • Author: DeWitt, Helen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 0811228932
    • Language: English
  • All Fires the Fire

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    A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in… [more below]

    • Author: Cort?zar, Julio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 28 2020
    • ISBN10: 0811229459
    • Language: English
  • The Faraway World: Stories

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    A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023

    From the a

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    • Author: Engel, Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1982159537
    • Language: English
  • The Chianti Chronicles: Volume One – Tales of Vietnam Vets

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    The Vietnam War ended decades ago, but its heroes are still here. They are as diverse as America itself, but all of them have key things in common: love for their country, love for their families, and

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    • Series: The Chianti Chronicles #1
    • Author: Cullen, Kevin J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: July 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798988156215
    • Language: English
  • Hoist House: A Novella & Stories

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    Cher Bebe manages the dance floor and flogs patrons at a nightclub while his estranged father takes his last breaths back home; a Michigan tornado spotter grieves the end of his marriage; Maggie Panca

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    • Author: Robertson, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986966359
    • Language: English
  • The Best of Edward Abbey

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    This is the only major collection of Abbey’s writings compiled by the author himself: in his own words, “to present what I think is both the best and most representative of my writing–so far.” It ser… [more below]

    • Author: Abbey, Edward
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 458
    • Publish Date: July 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 1578051215
    • Language: English
  • Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories

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    An NYRB Classics Original

    Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the n

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    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Ocampo, Silvina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 27 2015
    • ISBN10: 1590177673
    • Language: English
  • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

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    “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, makin

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Plath, Sylvia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061549479
    • Language: English
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