Recommend me a short story collection, doesn’t matter if it’s from a single author or an anthology
Basically the title. Want to read more short stories and wondered if you guys have any short story collections you love! I don’t have any genre preference, so anything goes.
**One More Thing** by BJ Novak (who was a writer and guest star on *The Office*, among other things). Really funny short stories that are all kind of fun twists on familiar concepts
**The Imago Sequence** by Laird Barron. A collection of psychological suspense/horror short stories.
**World War Z: The Definitive Edition** by Max Brooks. Written as a non-fiction ten years after zombies almost wiped out humanity. Each chapter is a new person sharing their experiences from before, during, and/or after the apocalypse. It’s not technically different short stories, but each chapter is a brand new character from all over the world. Aside from being arranged in roughly chronological order, each person tells a totally different story. It’s really really good.
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*The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories* by Rachel Pollack
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Annie Proulx, Heart Songs, Literary fiction
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Here are some of my favorites (lots of magical realism)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Thank Your Lucky Stars by Sherrie Flick
Creature Feature collection by various authors
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King
Galatea by Madeline Miller (standalone short story)
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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There’s an ironically named series of short story collections starring female protagonists and written mainly by female authors, all collected/edited by **Esther Freisner** (who also provides a few of the stories).
The books are –
* Chicks In Chainmail
* Did You Say Chicks?!
* Chicks ‘n Chained Males
* The Chick Is In The Mail
* Turn The Other Chick
* Chicks And Balances
The first three can also be found in an omnibus called *Chicks Ahoy!*
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**One More Thing** by BJ Novak (who was a writer and guest star on *The Office*, among other things). Really funny short stories that are all kind of fun twists on familiar concepts
**The Imago Sequence** by Laird Barron. A collection of psychological suspense/horror short stories.
**World War Z: The Definitive Edition** by Max Brooks. Written as a non-fiction ten years after zombies almost wiped out humanity. Each chapter is a new person sharing their experiences from before, during, and/or after the apocalypse. It’s not technically different short stories, but each chapter is a brand new character from all over the world. Aside from being arranged in roughly chronological order, each person tells a totally different story. It’s really really good.
*The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories* by Rachel Pollack
Annie Proulx, Heart Songs, Literary fiction
Here are some of my favorites (lots of magical realism)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Thank Your Lucky Stars by Sherrie Flick
Creature Feature collection by various authors
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King
Galatea by Madeline Miller (standalone short story)
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
There’s an ironically named series of short story collections starring female protagonists and written mainly by female authors, all collected/edited by **Esther Freisner** (who also provides a few of the stories).
The books are –
* Chicks In Chainmail
* Did You Say Chicks?!
* Chicks ‘n Chained Males
* The Chick Is In The Mail
* Turn The Other Chick
* Chicks And Balances
The first three can also be found in an omnibus called *Chicks Ahoy!*