Short stories
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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cartEdgar Award winner Otto Penzler–“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)–returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society’s lords and … [more below]
- Author: Penzler, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 593311027
- Language: English
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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
$22.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life–lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, ar- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: De Balzac, Honore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1590176642
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector’s Edition
$35.00 Read moreThe fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Se n and introduced by his son Patrick, this “illuminating” (The Washington Post) collect… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 147678762X
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
$18.99 Add to cart“A knockout short story collection…Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and re
- Author: Jin, Meng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063160722
- Language: English
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Wrong: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Dennis Cooper has intrigued, shocked, and energized American writing. Whether described as the leading writer of the Blank Generation or the New Narrative or likened to Poe, Sade,
- Series: Cooper, Dennis
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133673
- Language: English
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Ford County: Stories
$28.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.
Wheelchair-bound Inez G- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0385532458
- Language: English
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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
$16.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life
“In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the … [more below]- Author: Bank, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140293248
- Language: English
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
$16.95 Read moreFeaturing stories by: Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Rita Dove, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, Amina Gautier, Alexia Arthurs, Dana Johnson, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwidge D
- Author: Edim, Glory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092351
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mr. Poynter: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$6.95 Add to cartWhile engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog–oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. This cl
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: James, M. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1771961252
- Language: English
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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, someth
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Johnson, Toni Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820363065
- Language: English
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2
$17.95 Add to cartRichard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta Books published in 1992.
It became the definitive
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 786
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1847080405
- Language: English
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Uncle Yah Yah: 21st Century Man of Wisdom
$17.95 Add to cartRead this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature
- Author: Dickens, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0975964682
- Language: English
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Orientation and Other Stories
$15.00 Add to cartBreakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break–daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed–by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face en
- Author: Orozco, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478716
- Language: English
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Knockemstiff
$16.95 Add to cart“More engaging than any new fiction in years.” –Chuck Palahniuk
An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient- Author: Pollock, Donald Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 076792830X
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 – 1967
$25.99 Add to cartA classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright — edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes.
Originally published in 19- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0316380318
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
$22.99 Read moreFrom Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
- Author: Byatt, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199561605
- Language: English
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I’m Not Going Anywhere
$16.95 Add to cartRazor-sharp social commentary, Jane Austen for contemporary feminists unafraid to confront a dark world
In her latest translated volume of collected short fiction, Rumena Buzarovska delivers more of wh
- Series: Macedonian Literature
- Author: Buzarovska, Rumena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974540
- Language: English
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I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories
$28.99 Read moreAn electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In
In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a m
- Author: Boyle, T. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063052881
- Language: English
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
$27.99 Read more“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”–Roxane Gay,
- Author: Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063117045
- Language: English
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Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories
$17.95 Add to cart2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner-Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perc… [more below]- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Blackburn, Venita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496201868
- Language: English
