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Essential Short Story Collections

The short story collections most frequently assigned in creative writing and literature courses — from Chekhov to Carver, O'Connor to Munro.

The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov · 1904 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor · 1955 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Dear Life Alice Munro · 2012 Recommended See details →
Exhalation Ted Chiang · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter · 1979 Essential Read See details →
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 Editor's Choice See details →
Tenth of December George Saunders · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Dubliners James Joyce · 1914 Recommended See details →
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1981 Essential Read See details →
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw · 2020 Essential Read See details →

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