 | Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $7.93 He's been called the greatest short story writer ever. Hard to argue.
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.99 No short story collection is complete without some Poe.
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 | Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.06 Stylistic, enigmatic, original.
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 | To Build a Fire and Other Stories (Bantam Classics) by Jack London
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Title story is one of the best ever written.
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 | 41 Stories (Signet Classics) by O. Henry
Buy used from: $0.01 His wit and surprise endings have become legendary.
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 | Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.25 Arguably the best book of short stories ever written.
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 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $8.82 Borges is a writer, a country, a universe all his own.
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 | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $15.17 / Used from: $9.72 Another candidate for "best ever..."
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 | The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.74 O'Connor was a master.
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 | Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.98 Faulkner succeeded as much in his short fiction as in his novels.
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 | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.37 Another masterful storyteller.
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 | Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
Buy used from: $0.01 Stegner's fiction, be it in short or novel form, is essential reading.
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 | The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.14 Cheever wrote about the upper-middle class better than almost anyone.
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 | Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.75 The king of minimalistic storytelling, Carver is a must-read.
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 | The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
Buy used from: $0.32 Paley has carved her niche as one of the masters.
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 | Selected Stories by Andre Dubus
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.82 Few bring the depth, power, and emotional rawness to their work better than Dubus. Don't miss "The Father's Story."
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 | Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.50 Munro's consistent quality of work is astonishing. Superb.
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 | William Trevor: The Collected Stories by William Trevor
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $4.00 A big, rich, wonderful collection.
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 | The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Thom Jones
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $2.00 Raw, tough, unflinching. A literary punch in face.
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 | Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 Science and storytelling meet in this amazing book.
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 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.40 Butler succeeds on every level with this work.
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 | The Night In Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.06 Solid contemporary classic.
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 | The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.89 Yates left his mark on many contemporary story writers and his work is among the best.
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 | The Hermit's Story: Stories by Rick Bass
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.15 Bass's talent, in both fiction and non, is astonishing. He evokes a sense of place better than almost anyone.
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 | The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.00 If you can choose only one "best of" collection, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better all-around selection than this one.
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