Best American short stories
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The best American short stories, 1953
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The best American short stories, 1954
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The best American short stories, 1955
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The best American short stories, 1956
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The best American short stories, 1957
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The best American short stories, 1958
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The best American short stories, 1959
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The best American short stories, 1960
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The best American short stories, 1961
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The best American short stories, 1962
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The best American short stories, 1963
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The best American short stories, 1964
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The best American short stories, 1965
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The best American short stories, 1966
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The best American short stories, 1967
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The best American short stories, 1968
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The best American short stories, 1969
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The best American short stories, 1970
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The best American short stories, 1971
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The best American short stories, 1972
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The best American short stories, 1973
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The best American short stories, 1974
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The best American short stories, 1975
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The best American short stories, 1976
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The best American short stories, 1977
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The best American short stories, 1978
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The best American short stories, 1979
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The best American short stories, 1980
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The best American short stories, 1981
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The best American short stories, 1982
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The best American short stories, 1983
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The best American short stories, 1984
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The best American short stories, 1985
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The best American short stories, 1986
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The best American short stories, 1987
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The best American short stories, 1988
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The best American short stories, 1989
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The best American short stories of the eighties
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The best American short stories, 1990
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The best American short stories, 1991
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The best American short stories, 1992
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The best American short stories, 1993
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The best American short stories, 1994
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The best American short stories, 1995
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The best American short stories, 1996
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The best American short stories, 1997
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The best American short stories, 1998
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The best American short stories, 1999
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The best American short stories, 2000
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The best American short stories, 2001
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The best American short stories, 2002
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The best American short stories, 2003
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The best American short stories, 2004
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The best American short stories, 2005
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The best American short stories, 2006
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The best American short stories, 2007
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The best American short stories, 2008
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The best American short stories, 2009
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
"Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year." -- Publisher's website
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something lacking in their life. Their stories...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
"In 'Miss Lora, ' Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the 'Magic Man.' Kirstin Valdez Quade's 'Nemecia'...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"'To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time, ' recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. 'They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.' Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced...
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Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences,...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
"This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--