For the days my attention can’t follow a story quite as long as I’d like. Fiction or non-fiction suggestions welcome!
A few that I’ve liked:
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Thanks in advance!
by Formal_Candidate7217
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It’s still Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but that’s because I usually don’t read anthologies often
Shit Cassandra Saw
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Beyond the Aquila Rift: the Best of Alastair Reynolds
The Year’s Best Science Fictions series
The Best Mystery Books of the Year series
If your library has a place where you can buy donated books and magazines, keep an eye out for Asimov’s, Ellery Queen and other short fiction magazines. The New Yorker magazines have short fiction, too. At my library, they only charge a dime for each magazine and a quarter for books.
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
I’m being pedantic and don’t actually care that much, but if it’s nonfiction, does it not then become an essay collection?
That said, I also enjoyed Anthropocene Reviewed. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay is another good essay collection.
And as for short stories, I don’t read much of them, but I really enjoyed Tenth of December by George Saunders.
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King. Sherlock Holmes meets a young woman who is every bit his intellectual match.
Anything Chekov.
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Bachman Books
Interpreter of Maladies
Any collection of Alice Munro. No Nobel has been more deserved.
Don’t Look Now
Stories of Your Life
The Blush
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Neil Gaiman has a few good collection of shorts. One of them is called Trigger Warning.
Bibliomysteries edited by Otto Penzler
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
In Our Time – Hemingway
The Informers – Bret Easton Ellis
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Wonderfully creepy and enthralling.
Annie Proulx has some great collections
Teatro grotesque by Thomas Ligotti
When The Women Come Out To Dance by Elmore Leonard
Fire In The Hole by Elmore Leonard
The Complete Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence