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10 best books like Telling Tales (Nadine Gordimer): Gifts, The Best American Short Stories 1997, Selected Tales and Sketches, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967, Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 1998, The Best American Short Stories 2000, The Best American Short Stories 2003, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories

Gifts
AuthorNuruddin Farah
ISBN0140296425
Gifts is a beguiling tale of a Somali family, its strong matriarch, Duniya, and its past wounds that refuse to heal. As the story unfolds, Somalia is ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine, prompting industrialized nations to offer monetary aid—"gifts" to the so-called Third World. Farah...
The Best American Short Stories 1997
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0395798655
The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert...
Selected Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected...
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
AuthorRichard Ford
ISBN1862071098
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include “A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; “Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; “O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; “The...
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0316380318
Long before we even heard of great contemporary writers we get amazing, touching, slice-of-life and memoirs such as Alice Walker's "To Hell With Dying", Mary Elizabeth Vroman's "See How They Run" to Kristin Hunter's "An Interesting Social Study".

Here, Hughes showcases shorts from some...
Short Stories
AuthorTheodore Dreiser
ISBN0486282155
In his stories and in such landmark novels as Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) defied literary propriety and broke new ground in American fiction by focusing on life as it is, rather than as it ought to be. Sherwood Anderson, introducing a collection of Dreiser...
The Best American Short Stories 1998
AuthorGarrison Keillor
ISBN0395875145
Best American Short Stories of 1998 is a collection of short stories selected by Garrison Keillor.

Stories read in random order, as part of the 2014 Deal Me In! Short Story Reading Challenge (bibliophilica.wordpress.com/deal-me-i...).

Wayne in Love - by Padgett Powell
I hated...
The Best American Short Stories 2000
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0395926866
Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher in the new millennium, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000 brims with a rich variety of lyrical and wise stories about...
The Best American Short Stories 2003
AuthorWalter Mosley
ISBN0618197338
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
AuthorMichael Chabon
ISBN1400078741
Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits,...
Le coq de bruyère
AuthorMichel Tournier
ISBN2070372294
Comment le Père Noël donnerait-il le sein à l'Enfant Jésus ? L'Ogre du Petit Poucet était-il un hippie ? Un nain peut-il devenir un surhomme ? Est-il possible de tuer avec un appareil de photographie ? Le citron donne-t-il un avant-goût du néant ?À ces questions - et à bien d'autres plus graves...
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
AuthorPhilip Stevick
Contents:

Life story by John Barth
The seventh trunk by Heinrich Böll
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again by Joyce Carol Oates
The coal shoveller by Keith Fort
Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
Gogol's...
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007
AuthorLaura Furman
ISBN0307276880
An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na-ve, here is fiction that consistently defies...
Anthology of Black Humor
AuthorAndré Breton
ISBN0872863212
This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are...
Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories
AuthorRobert Shapard
ISBN0393306135
Short-short fiction had an in-vogue period back in the late 80s-early 90s, when every bookstore and literary magazine seemed to be touting it. I haven't studied this question, but my guess is that these days short fiction is still popular, but that very short pieces are no longer the flavor of the month....
Призраки Лексингтона
AuthorHaruki Murakami
ISBN5699033599
"Призраки Лексингтона" (1996) - один из самых известных сборников рассказов классика современной японской литературы Харуки Мураками (р. 1949). Автор популярных...
Best European Fiction 2012
AuthorAleksandar Hemon
ISBN1564786803
Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique...
McSweeney's #21
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1932416617
With work by Roddy Doyle, Stephen Elliott, Peter Orner, Joyce Carol Oates, Yannick Murphy, and Miranda July, as well as the triumphant return of Arthur Bradford and stories concerning fistfighting Mormons, New Zealand police
malfeasance, and a man named Trang, and with all of those works interspersed...
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
AuthorSaul Bellow
ISBN0140189459
In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. The stories, which include "Leaving the Yellow House," "The Old System," "Looking for Mr. Green," "The Gonzaga Manuscripts," and "A Father-to-Be," reflect Bellow s ability...
Superwoobinda
AuthorAldo Nove
ISBN8806146505
«Woobinda è un libro che avevo scritto per avere successo con le donne, per partecipare a qualche trasmissione televisiva. Ce l'ho fatta. Superwoobinda è molto di più. Ci sono un sacco di storie nuove! Racconto di un sogno tremendo che ho fatto. Racconto quella volta che sono andato a vedere le Spice...
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
AuthorJohn Murray
ISBN0060509295
These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so...
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