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10 best books like The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Annie Proulx): The Best American Short Stories 1998, The Best American Short Stories 2000, The Best American Short Stories 1995, The Best American Short Stories 2002, The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 1996, The Best American Short Stories 1999, The Best American Short Stories 2001, The Best American Short Stories 2004, The Best American Short Stories 2005

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 1995
AuthorJane Smiley
ISBN0395711797
Every autumn, readers of short stories eagerly look forward to the chance to discover their favorite writers and new talents in The Best American Short Stories. Last year's collection marched on to bestseller lists across the country and met with acclaim from critics who declared it "a brilliant work...
The Best American Short Stories 2002
AuthorSue Miller
ISBN0618131736
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...
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...
The Best American Short Stories 1996
AuthorJohn Edgar Wideman
ISBN0395752914
Each fall The Best American Short Stories provides a fresh showcase for this rich and unpredictable form. Selected from an unusually wide variety of publications, John Edgar Wideman's choices for 1996 place stories from esteemed national magazines alongside those from some of the smallest and most...
The Best American Short Stories 1999
AuthorAmy Tan
Rookie of the Year
The new cheat sheets are here! The new cheat sheets are here!

Want to know who the hottest fiction writers are? Yeah, yeah, commercially it's whatever middlebrow author Oprah tabbed this month. While there have been exceptions, many Oprah authors are no more writer's...
The Best American Short Stories 2001
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
ISBN0395926882
This year’s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver’s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice...
The Best American Short Stories 2004
AuthorLorrie Moore
ISBN0618197354
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...
The Best American Short Stories 2005
AuthorMichael Chabon
ISBN0618427058
The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor,...
The Best American Short Stories 1993
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0395636272
Short Stories by Andrea Lee, Thom Jones, John Updike, Mary Gordon, Joanna Scott, Diane Johnson, Antonya Nelson, Harlan Ellison, and Alice Munro.

Foreword --
Introduction / Louise Erdrich --
Playing with dynamite / John Updike --
The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill --
A...
The Best American Short Stories 1994
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0395681022
Tobias Wolff brought a strong, if not flashy, batch of short stories for the 1994 edition of "The Best American Short Stories." If there is any general weakness in this volume of the stalwart anthology, its a similarity in tone from the first story to the last. Lost of rural middle American everymen confronting...
The Best American Short Stories 2006
AuthorAnn Patchett
“While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees, blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you can think about,” writes Ann Patchett in her introduction...
The Best American Short Stories 2009
AuthorAlice Sebold
ISBN0618792252
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines...
The Best American Short Stories 2007
AuthorStephen King
ISBN0618713484
In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever' . . . Talent can’t help itself; it roars along in fair weather or foul, not sparing the fireworks....
The Best American Short Stories 2008
AuthorSalman Rushdie
ISBN0618788778
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent...
The Best American Short Stories 1989
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0395470986
Contents: Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell -- Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd -- Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown -- Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Flowers of...
The Best American Short Stories 2010
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN0547055323
I devoured this book. All the rules I've been studying, all the presumed intelligentsia and invisible gatekeepers I've been cowering under have been pushed aside, fictionalized, for what I've learned from these stories. Established writers and emerging writers alike are represented in this annual...
The Best American Essays 2006
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0618705295
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0395843677
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES...
The Best American Short Stories 2013
AuthorElizabeth Strout
ISBN0547554826
“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates...
The Best American Short Stories 2011
AuthorGeraldine Brooks
ISBN0547242166
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0618517456
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN0618341234
The last story in this collection - "transmissions from camp trans", by Michelle Tea, is one of the most well written, insightful, and interesting pieces I have ever read on the topic it discusses. It talks about a camp for lesbian-identified women and the issue of them not allowing transgendered (male...
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