Short and Sweet: Our most-loved short story collections
To celebrate the release of THOUGH I GET HOME (available April 10), the FP brain trust got together to talk short stories. Here are 15 collections we recommend, with YZ Chin's debut at the top of the list. If you like Moore, Berlin, O'Connor, Washington, et al., then you'll love Chin's brilliantly crafted collection.
Dive in!
Literally everyone: Though I Get Home
by YZ Chin (Us truly)
“Poignant, like an arrow piercing one’s heart.” —Louise Meriwether, author of Daddy Was a Number Runner
Jisu: Kalpa Imperial
by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer Press)
Hannah: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Books)
Neeti: Mottled Dawn
by Saadat Hasan Manto (Penguin)
Lucia: A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin (Picador)
Lauren: Baboon
By Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman (Two Lines Press)
Sophia: The Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter (Penguin Books)
Alyea: Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial Press)
Amna: Self-Help
by Lorrie Moore (Vintage Books)
Drew: Smut
by Alan Bennett (Picador)
Elise: The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin)
Suki: The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor (FSG Classics)
Tenny: No Sweetness Here
by Ama Ata Aidoo (Feminist Press)
Jamia: You Are Free
by Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books)
Maya: Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds
by Mary Helen Washington (Anchor Books)