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20 Must-Read Collections for Short Story Month

Explore some of the most exciting voices in short fiction. The collections below include established authors and newcomers – celebrate Short Story Month with the collections below.

  1. 1

    The Thing Around Your Neck

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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    The Safety of Objects

    by A.M. Homes

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    American Housewife

    by Helen Ellis

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    Awayland

    by Ramona Ausubel

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  5. 5

    Sour Heart

    by Jenny Zhang

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    The King Is Always Above the People

    by Daniel Alarcón

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  7. 7

    After the Quake

    by Haruki Murakami

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    The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

    by Denis Johnson

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  9. 9

    Stories of Your Life and Others

    by Ted Chiang

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  10. 10

    The Boat

    by Nam Le

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    The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

    by Etgar Keret

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    Tenth of December

    by George Saunders

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    What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

    by Helen Oyeyemi

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  14. 14

    Homesick for Another World

    by Ottessa Moshfegh

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  15. 15

    Things We Lost in the Fire

    by Mariana Enriquez

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    The Bed Moved

    by Rebecca Schiff

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  17. 17

    This Is How You Lose Her

    by Junot Díaz

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  18. 18

    Dear Life

    by Alice Munro

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  19. 19

    Lovers on All Saints’ Day

    by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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  20. 20

    13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

    by Mona Awad

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