
Favorite Short Story Collections
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Here is a listing of my favorite short story collections, alphabetized by title.
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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)

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

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

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

Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2012)

Burning Bright by Ron Rash (Ecco, 2010)

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

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

Drowned Boy by Jerry Gabriel (Sarabande Books, 2001)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt (Vintage, 1992)

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

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

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

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

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

War Dances by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, 2010)

Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux (Picador, 1999)

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