116 of Your Favorite Short Story Collections

Lungs Full of Noise “explores a femininity that is magical, raw, and grotesque. Aghast at the failings of their bodies, this cast of misfit women and girls sets out to remedy the misdirection of their lives in bold and reckless ways.” In If I’d Known You Were Coming, “Kate Milliken unflinchingly shows us what can happen when the uninvited guest of our darkest desires comes to call.” Both of these debut collections explore ask big questions through the lens of magical and surreal elements, and they remind us that a story need not be long to have lasting impact. In this giveaway sponsored by Lungs Full of Noise by Tessa Mellas and If I’d Known You Were Coming by Kate Milliken, we asked you to tell us your favorite short story collections. You had more than a few suggestions. Take a look… Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie Sweet Talk by Stefanie Vaughn The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter Open Secrets and The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July The Sergeant’s Cat and Other Stories by Janwillem van de Wetering Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman Bradbury 100, October Country, The Illustrated Man, and Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Necklace and Other Short Stories by Guy D Maupassant Fragile Things, Unnatural Creatures, and Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman Birthday Stories, After the Quake, and The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault Birds of America  and Self-Help by Lorrie Moore The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula LeGuin I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Portraits Of A Few Of The People I’ve Made Cry by Christine Sneed Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages Tenth of December, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and Pastoralia by George Saunders Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender We’re In Trouble by Christopher Coake Volt by Alan Heathcock Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories and Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories by Ruskin Bond Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories by Ron Rash This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Dubliners by James Joyce Normal People Don’t LIve Like This by Dylan Landis Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros What I Talk About When I Talk About Love by Raymond Carver Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson Binocular Vision by Edith Perlman Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips Moscow but Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia Mermaids on the Golf Course by Patricia Highsmith Jagannath: Stories by Karin Tidbeck Dreams of Dark and Light by Tanith Lee St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Different Seasons, The Skeleton Crew and Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams, edited by Robert Coles How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer Poachers by Tom Franklin The Mixture as Before by W. Somerset Maugham What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander Once and Future Lovers by Sheree L Greer Nocturnes by John Connolly Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett Recapture and Other Stories by Erica Olsen The Necessity of Certain Behaviors by Shannon Cain Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon) The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret The Captain’s Daughter and Other Short Stories by Alexander Pushkin Nine Stories by JD Salinger Blue Taxis: Stories About Africa  by Eileen Drew Venetian Stories by Jane Turner Rylands Welding With Children by Tim Gautreaux If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut This Cake is for the Party by Sarah Selecky Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory American Salvage  by Bonnie Jo Campbell Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl Time and the Riddle by Howard Fast The Lonely Frog by Edwin Moser Cathedral by Raymond Carver 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Ford County: Stories by John Grisham Who I was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro Airships by Barry Hannah LIght Lifting by Alexander MacLeod Looking for Jake by China Mieville First, Body by Melanie Rae Thon Night Soul and Other Stories by Joseph McElroy The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein And, of course, ANYTHING by Poe or O’Henry; all of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock stories; and every anthology release to commemorate the finalists for a Short Story Award, from the Nebula and Hugo awards to the Pushcart Prize. _____________________ Sign up for our newsletter to have the best of Book Riot delivered straight to your inbox every week. 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