Short Stories

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity h...

"Wonderful in the ways Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor are wonderful when they are working the great vein of fierce and pitiless Southe...

In this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty. Of her own work, ...

roth's Award-winning First Book Instantly Established Its Author's Reputation As A Writer Of Explosive Wit, Merciless Insight, And A Fierce Compassion For...

the Narrator Of the Zahir Is A Bestselling Novelist Who Lives In Paris And Enjoys All The Privileges Money And Celebrity Bring. His Wife Of Ten Years, Est...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns readers to the beloved Southern town of Trinity Harbor with a story of second chances and findin...

Vibrant watercolors accompany a heartwarming collection of ten beloved stories about dogs--from border collies and sheepdogs to the exploits of Tricki Woo, ...

Learn About The Status Of The Unknown Norwegian And Why Lake Wobegon Never Made It Onto The Maps And Many Other Small-town Stories. Home -- New Albion -- Fo...

Private eye V.I. Warshawski finds herself up against rampant corruption in Chicago’s hospitals in the fourth novel in Sara Paretsky’s New York Times bes...

Tanya Huff, the acclaimed writer of the Blood and Kigh series, is also a fantastic short story writer. What Ho, Magic! is a collection of fifteen of Tany...

A boy's account of growing up in the South during the depression era. Both a rare first novel and a new American classic, Sams novel has been compared to To...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of...

we Are The First Generation Raised Without God. We Are Creatures With Strong Religious Impulses, Yet They Have Nowhere To Flow In This World Of Malls And ...

New York Timesbestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a "master of the genre" (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. N...

Golf and love—the two primal obsessions.P. G. Wodehouse displays his most uproarious storytelling and never-ending jollity in these tales of lovers on the...

This Third Collection Of Short Fiction By Gaiman Includes Previously Published Pieces Of Short Fiction--stories, Verse, And A Doctor Who Story Written For T...

A Collection Of Darkly Comic Stories United By Their Obsession With Obsession. Cat 'n' Mouse -- The Disappearance Of Elaine Coleman -- The Room In The Attic...

Kazuo Ishiguro.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning auth...

"And everywhere the humans went they found life..." This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation novel...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lightho...

Holidays on Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scra...

during A Crowded Service At A Cathedral In Germany, Armed Intruders In Monks' Robes Unleash A Nightmare Of Blood And Destruction. But The Killers Have N...

"Exceptional... This is the best kind of anthology, consistently excellent and inventive." -Publishers Weekly, starred review The latest Mystery Writers of...

In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels whil...

Presents A Selection Of The Best Works Of Short Fiction Of The Past Year From A Variety Of Acclaimed Sources.Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels Graphic...

from The African Coast To The Suburbs Of Ohio, From Sideshow Pageantry To Harsh Wilderness Survival, Doerr's Stories Explore The Human Condition In All Its...

A Kiss For The Leper.--genetrix.--the Desert Of Love.--the Knot Of Vipers.--woman Of The Pharisees. Translated By Gerard Hopkins. Introd. By Wallace Fowlie....

The Third Installment In The Bestselling Gothic Series, About An Ancient Order Who Speak The Truth Behind Christ's Miracles And Strive To Protect The World ...

Truman Capote Makes Whiskey-soaked Fruitcake In Alabama; Laurie Lee Slides Across A Frozen Pond In Gloucestershire; And Shirley Jackson Is Outwitted By A Wi...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is “Stephen King at his best” (The Denver Post)â€...

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgei...

First published in 1914, Dubliners is an incomparable, highly individual collection of short stories. Depicting Irish middle class life in and around Dubl...

Joe Hill's Award-winning Story Collection, Originally Published As 20th Century Ghosts, Featuring The Black Phone, Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture From Un...

Herman Melville.Categories: Teen & Young Adult Literature & FictionClassics

Follows Ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, The Legendary Transgender Landlady Of 28 Barbary Lane, As She Joins Her Former Tenant Brian On A Road Trip To Nev...

Four mesmerizing novellas, including the inspirations for the movies The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil and Stand By Me. Minneapolis Star-Tribune He crea...

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogra...

Seventy-year-old F.X. Toole has exploded onto the literary scene with this astonishing first collection of stories drawn from his own experiences in boxing...

From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in Ame...

He never saw her coming… Spencer Lark already knows too many secrets about Arizona Storm, including the nightmare she survived and her resulting trust i...

The international bestseller For readers of quirky Scandinavian fiction comes this charming and witty debut novel by Emmy Abrahamson—perfect for fans of ...

Rebecca Wells's wonderful third book in her Ya-Ya trilogy, which includes Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, is sure to...

www.RobynCarr.comWelcome back to VIRGIN RIVER with the books that started it all… This year, Becca Timm knows the number one item on her Christmas wish l...

From Familiar Fairy Tales And Legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-boots, Beauty And The Beast, Vampires, Werewolves – Angela Carter Has Create...

*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award* *Winner of the Whiting Award**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* *Nominated fo...

From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. P...