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How They Were Found
Matt Bell
Review
"Body toll notwithstanding, How They Were Found is anything but bleak. For one thing, there's the prose: generous,...
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Cat o'nine tales and other stories
Jeffrey Archer
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Bestseller Archer (Kane & Abel) put his time in prison to fine literary use, as e...
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A Quiver Full of Arrows
Jeffrey Archer
Review
"A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction"-- Entertainment Weekly"One of the top ten storytelle...
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Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
Alexander Mccall Smith
From Publishers Weekly
Smith, author of the bestselling The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and some 50 other books, nimbl...
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Selected Stories
Andre Dubus
From Publishers Weekly
Dubus, known as one of our most accomplished storytellers, has in his own life recently experience...
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Jesus' Son: Stories
Denis Johnson
Amazon.com Review
The unnamed narrator in Jesus' Son lives through a car wreck and a heroin overdose. Is he blessed? He ...
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Terry Mcmillan
Amazon.com Review
Terry McMillan's novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they're just busting to tell y...
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Dark Water
Koji Suzuki
Review
"An excellent short story collection... The stories are not easily classifiable, verring between fantasy, horror, ...
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Birthday
Koji Suzuki
Review
"Suzuki has a flair for cinematic descriptions that leap off the page, resulting ingripping stories that just migh...
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A Bit on the Side
William Trevor
From Publishers Weekly
The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of stories—a new widow confe...
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Review
"What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strik...
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The New Yorker Stories
Ann Beattie
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Gathered in chronological order from 1974 to 1986, these early stories elucidate t...
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Bear and His Daughter
Robert Stone
Amazon.com Review
The stories in Robert Stone's first collection, Bear and His Daughter were written over the course of ...
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Katja from the Punk Band
Simon Logan
From Publishers Weekly
This grungy, industrial novel is set during a dark, rainy night on an island where out-of-control ...
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The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Martin Harry Greenberg, John L. Apostolou
From Publishers Weekly
This collection includes work by Kobo Abe as well as some lesser-known Japanese writers."Almost al...
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Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera
Review
"An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished comp...
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Lucky Girls: Stories (P.S.)
Nell Freudenberger
Amazon.com Review
Nell Freudenberger knows from lucky girls. She has had a lot of luck herself in her short writing caree...
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I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Amazon.com Review
In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of rob...
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Coronado: Stories (P.S.)
Dennis Lehane
From Publishers Weekly
Lehane (Mystic River) hints in the first of these five richly vernacular (and, save one, previousl...
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Fetish Lives
Gail Jones
From Publishers Weekly
Australian writer Jones makes her American debut with these engaging, occasionally brilliant dozen...
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