Short stories Books

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time!Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of...

In Joe Baumann's newest collection Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go, queer men explore their sense of who they are and what they want, often in worlds that are tilted askew from what we might expect.Thirteen surreal short stories utilize...

Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction One of the Globe and Mail Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 AMiramichi Reader Best Book of...

A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories. The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from...

Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This morning, Gregor awakens to discover that, overnight, he has been transformed into a monstrous insect. As...

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.Eight...

Age range 12 to 18A dazzling collection of retold and original fairy tales from fifteen acclaimed and bestselling YA writers.Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh tales with...

In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill'sGood Womendelves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023 in Fiction One of Oprah Daily's Best Books of the Year One of Electric Literature's Best Short Story...

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In "belly," a...

Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal...

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction.Kesha Ajs-Fisher'sNo God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in...

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity...

From the unique standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than thirty years, Rebecca Otowa weaves enchanting tales of her adopted home that portray the perspective of both the Japanese and the...

Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the uncontested master of the short story in modern Japanese literature, the stories in this anthology are perfect examples of the decadent aesthetic, with the gorgeous and the grotesque, the splendid and the sordid...

First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan. And the novel's popularity has, if anything, increased with the years, making it today a classic like Boccaccio's...

WINNER OF THE 2023 RELIT AWARD FOR SHORT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZEFor fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, and Karen Russell, the stories in Francine Cunningham's debut...

"What magic, what beauty there is in these pages."-John Freeman, author ofWind, Trees In this adventurous debut lurk stories that are deep, lush, and full of wonder. While camping in the Kalahari Desert, a couple grows attached to a starving lion on the...

Kirkus Reviews, "Best Fiction Books of the Year" Kirkus Reviews, "20 Best Books to Read in January" Kirkus Reviews, "Yes, You Can Read Short Stories in Shuffle Mode" Book Riot, "15 Excellent 2023 Short Story Collections by Asian Authors"Liberty Hardy,...

In each of these stories, the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny.Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe's debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy...

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction.Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations,...

Across a Vast Distance or 5.9 Billion Kilometers or the Equivalent of 39.5 Astronomical Units... At Mercury, the massive solar satellite Heliopolis and its heroic station commander battle both renegades and enemies from within to steer the course of...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse...

The eleven stories in Sweetlust interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.In a dystopian world with no men, women are "rehabilitated" at an erotic amusement park...

Informed by the author's experience in and between genders, this debut story collection blurs fantasy and reality, excavating new meanings from our varied dysphorias.Misfit mothers, prodigal "undaughters," con artists, and middle-aged runaways populate...

Selected and Most Anticipated Lists: BuzzFeed, The Millions, BITCH Magazine, The Rumpus, The Irish Times, BUSTLE, Entropy Magazine, BIG OTHER Magazine, Bay City News Foundation, 7x7 MagazineIn the Event of Contact chronicles characters profoundly...

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest...

A collection of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror. Lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Paul Pope. Algernon Blackwood was one of the first true masters of...

Loss and rediscovery occupy the heart of this adventurous collection. The characters in Eternal Night at the Nature Museum find refuge in strange, repurposed spaces: a middle-aged addict emcees a demolition derby, which transforms into a hostel, then a...

In her quartet of novellas, Joan Frank invites readers into the inner lives of characters bewildered by love, grief, and inexplicable affinities. A young couple navigates a strange friendship and unexpected pregnancy; a woman recalls the bizarre fallout...

A collection of twelve of J.S. Breukelaar's darkest, finest stories with four new works, including the uncanny new novella Ripples on a Blank Shore. Introduction by award winning author, Angela Slatter. Relish the Gothic strangeness of Union Falls,...

Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTThe first English-language story collection from "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (Guardian), "a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran" (Wall Street Journal)In...

From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonised and idealised. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia...

This collection acts as compendium of George Singleton'swork forboth devoteess and readers who may not have encountered his stories before.These are deeply funny stories that will make you laugh out loud, butalso hit on sad, human truths. Singleton is a...

Triangle Ray is a collection of short stories linked by the character of Ray Fielding, introduced first as a young black man coming of age in the 1980s and infatuated with his schoolmate, Marie. Against the wishes of their families, the two marry just...

Unapologetic and resilient, these women challenge monolithic assumptions of black identity.A TSA agent who has never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. In this debut collection of stories, each of them...

A new story collection focused on the Heartland from Michael Martone, one of America's most prolific and important contemporary authors.In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arrhythmic pulse of the...

Gaza Writes Backis a compelling anthology of short stories from fifteen young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel's siege and blockade. Their experiences, especially during and following Israel's 2008-2009...

"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."-Salon.com (Best of the Year)"A delightful collection."-Cleveland Plain Dealer"My favorite fantasy writer."-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered"Link's stories defy explanation,...

Age range 8 to 12Thirteen very short stories from acclaimed musician John Southworth will tweak your mind and peak your imagination. Meet the boy with grey hair who spends his days on a cargo ship peeling potatoes, a strange man who...

Free agents or captives of our past? In Life, Bound, characters find themselves caught in situations not of their own making, or trapped by ingrained habits, walking in grooves carved out by past events.An artist's progress is pleasingly channeled into a...

A young man can't make love. A pedantic father spots a blemish in his new shorts and returns to the shop to demand their exchange. A girl rocks up to a Tinder date wearing a helmet.In nineteen short stories, No Neat Endings pits its characters against...

This is a collection of contemporary stories from the Queer community. It is about love, sex and identity told through diverse stories from buying a double bed, meeting neighbourhood witches and early morning swims. They talk about freedom and misery,...

WINNER OF THE 2018 CARMEL BIRD DIGITAL LITERARY AWARDBeth Spencer's new and expanded edition of her award-winning collection, The Age of Fibs, crosses boundaries of genre, time, history and desire; meditating on how we create ourselves through culture...

Set in different cities around the world - Hong Kong, Miami, New York, London, Ipoh and Singapore - Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean-Malaysian diaspora, and ask what it means to be 'Chinese' or 'Asian' within...

These are stories of people caught up in a world that tilts seductively, sometimes dangerously, between south and north, between ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her characters are poised to leave or on the point of return - often caught...

Two schoolgirls in Bolton take acid just before their English class. A film journalist shares tea and a KitKat with Marcel Proust, more or less, during a long train journey. An afterparty turns into a crime scene. Colleagues, maybe in love, have lunch...