Favorite Short Story Collections

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Woman Reading by Pieter Janssens Elinga
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Here is a  listing of my favorite short story collections, alphabetized by title.

As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair MacLeod (New Canadian Library, 1986)

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Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press, 2010)

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Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Birdman (Scribner, 2012)

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Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy (Riverhead Books, 2009)

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Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2012)

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Burning Bright by Ron Rash (Ecco, 2010)

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Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash (Picador, 2007)

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Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston (W. W. Norton, 1992)

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Drowned Boy by Jerry Gabriel (Sarabande Books, 2001)

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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower (Picador, 2001)

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Feeding the Eagles by Paulette Bates Alden (Graywolf Press, 1989)

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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House, 2010)

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The Hermit's Story:  Stories by Rick Bass (Mariner Books, 2003)

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black (Random House, 2001)

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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahari (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)

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Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt (Vintage, 1992)

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The Last Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod (New Canadian Library, 1976)

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The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (Harper Perennial, 1993)

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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash (Ecco, 2013)

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Olive  Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House, 2008)

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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories by Lydia Peelle (Harper Perennial, 2009)

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Same Place, Same Things by Tim Gautreaux (St. Martins Press, 1996)

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Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2004)

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1990)

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories  by Yiyun Li (Random House, 2006)

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Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2000)

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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahari (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)

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War Dances by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2010)

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Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux (Picador, 1999)

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Who's Irish? by Gish Jen (Knopf, 1999)

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