We’ve mentioned before that we love short stories and love to find a reason to highlight them for you. Since the days are shorter, how about reading some shorter works of fiction? We looked at our most popular short story collections from the past year and selected six of your favorites to give you an abbreviated reading kick.
Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone
A staff pick of Roxanne’s that’s a sharp, witty book about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.
Florida by Lauren Groff
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida--its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind--becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence.
The Hemingway Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The power of Ernest Hemingway's revolutionary style is perhaps most striking in his short stories, and here readers can encounter the tales that created the legend: stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time.
A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett
A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty-one newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series.
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle
Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. The Souvenir Museum showcases the talents of one of our finest contemporary writers as she tenderly takes the pulse of our collective and individual lives.
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