Short Stories

How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories (Hardcover)

By N. K. Jemisin

$20.80

ISBN: 9780316491341

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Published: Orbit - November 27th, 2018

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A chef who takes on a series of challenges from a visiting alchemist, sentient programs learning the boundaries of their world, and an avatar of death walking an abandoned city trying to find new purpose are only a handful of the weird delights to be found in this wonderful short story collection. Whether you've read Jemisin's novels or are discovering her for the first time, there's a story in here for you to fall in love with.

 

Ari

Mouthful of Birds: Stories (Hardcover)

By Samanta Schweblin

$20.80

ISBN: 9780399184628

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Published: Riverhead Books - January 8th, 2019

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Pick this up for a collection reads like Grimm fairy tales by way of contemporary Argentina: mysterious, bizarre, and darkly funny. Samanta Schweblin's prose is spare and startling.  It's the perfect book for a month of cold winter's nights!

 

Kate

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)

By Carmen Maria Machado

$16.00

ISBN: 9781555977887

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Published: Graywolf Press - October 3rd, 2017

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Strange and spectacular--my favorite book I've read this year. Carmen Maria Machado's stories will haunt you in the best possible way.

Kate

The New Voices of Fantasy (Paperback)

By Peter S. Beagle (Editor), Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander

$16.95

ISBN: 9781616962579

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Published: Tachyon Publications - August 22nd, 2017

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This short story collection introduces a stellar new generation of fantasy writers. Standout stories include "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers," "A Kiss With Teeth," "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn," and so many more. Be warned: you'll find yourself feverishly running to the bookstore to find more from each of these captivating authors!

Rebecca

The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories (Paperback)

By Anthony Marra

$16.00

ISBN: 9780770436452

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Published: Hogarth - July 19th, 2016

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It took me too long to take this book seriously because of the unique title, and I'm still mad at myself for taking so long to read it. This book expertly weaves together the stories of people from across  both time and the vast country of Russia. We meet a man working to censor pieces of art, a museum curator, a thug from a small Siberian town, an actress, and many others that all flawlessly form a larger picture of Russian culture and experiences.

Cissa

Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories (Hardcover)

By Kelly Barnhill

$24.95

ISBN: 9781616207977

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Published: Algonquin Books - February 20th, 2018

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Gorgeous language, striking imagery...it doesn’t get better than this. If you like Kelly Link’s work, you simply must read this short story collection!

Marika

Meet Cute (Hardcover)

By Jennifer L. Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Katharine McGee, Kass Morgan, Julie Murphy, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi

$17.99

ISBN: 9781328759870

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Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - January 2nd, 2018

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Meet Cute is a YA short story anthology celebrating the best part of any good rom-com- the meet cute. The fourteen stories within are diverse, romantic, funny, and heartbreaking, featuring many of today's most popular YA authors. This is the perfect read to get you in that Valentine's Day spirit.

April

Fen: Stories (Paperback)

By Daisy Johnson

$16.00

ISBN: 9781555977740

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Published: Graywolf Press - May 2nd, 2017

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If Karen Russell wrote stories set in the wilds of rural England rather than rural Florida, you might get something like Daisy Johnson's Fen--strange stories of girls growing up and on the outskirts of an unwelcoming world. Johnson writes with a cutting voice, elegantly dissecting daily injustices and incremental brutalizations, and the transformations women make to survive.

The Complete Stories (FSG Classics) (Paperback)

By Flannery O'Connor, Robert Giroux (Introduction by)

$18.00

ISBN: 9780374515362

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 1st, 1971

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There is no such thing as having too much Flannery O'Connor in your life or on your shelf. Whether you've never read her work before, or you've written a dissertation on it, O'Connor's stories are always worth reading. Whenever I read her, I walk away not knowing how I feel, but certain I've been changed.

Matthew

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (Paperback)

By Lucy Corin

$15.00

ISBN: 9781940450025

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Published: McSweeney's - October 11th, 2016

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A collection of short stories, exploring cataclysm in its many forms, from the personal to the global--and often both together. The title piece of the book is a literal set of 100 tiny stories, each touching on apocalyptic themes in its own way. A playful, absorbing series of experiments; if Kelly Link and Lydia Davis wrote a book together, the result might be something like this.

Alexander