Short Stories

Fascination: Stories

by William Boyd

One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love–and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s...

Something Is Out There

by Richard Bausch

From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat”...

Who's Irish?: Stories

by Gish Jen

In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve,...

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cure

Giller Prize 2006

by Vincent Lam

A prize-winning #1 bestseller in Canada, this literary Grey's Anatomy follows the careers and relationships that develop among a group of young doctors.

Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

by Fabio Bartolomei

Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common...

The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories

by Hampton Fancher

Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this extraordinary collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These...

The Pacific and Other Stories

by Mark Helprin

At long last, almost ten years since his previous book, Mark Helprin returns with The Pacific and Other Stories, a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft...

Black Dahlia & White Rose

by Joyce Carol Oates

A wildly inventive new collection ofstories by Joyce Carol Oates that chartsthe surprising ways in which the worldwe think we know can unexpectedlyreveal its darker contours

The New York Times has hailed Joyce...

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

by Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories...

My Father's Tears: And Other Stories

by John Updike

“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories....

Just Mary Reader

by Margaret Anne Hume

Selections from Mary Grannan's sweet-tempered and humorous series, including Just Mary, Maggie Muggins, Jubilee Road, and Land of Supposing.

The Boat

by Nam Le

The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide...

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A classic American novel on female sexuality. The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot...

Secrets & Surprises

by Ann Beattie

These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories --...

What Salmon Know

by Elwood Reid

Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary...

We're Flying

by Peter Stamm & Michael Hofmann

Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness...

Shooting the Fox

by Marion Halligan

On love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening ... a new collection by Australia's most assured short-story writer.

The Road Les Travelled

by Chris Fisher

Les Carson, a young Sears employee from Regina, takes his dying father and his uncle on a last road trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

The Last of the Menu Girls

by Denise Chavez

Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree....

Free: Short Stories

by Anika Nailah

In spare, elegant stories reminiscent of the writings of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West, Anika Nailah illuminates the emotional, spiritual, and social realities that shape–and sometimes destroy–the...