A collection of seventeen stories, spanning the author's entire career, journeys to an imaginative new world in which sleep is illegal, explores the pain of owning a new dog, and visits an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewelr...

In this first collection, the recipient of numerous awards, Chaon has written 13 wonderfully deft stories detailing the almost panicked angst of the American generation now approaching 30. Like the families he explored in 'Among the M...

The six stories in Haruki Murakami's mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakam...

The night Laura Shane was born, a stranger accompanied by a storm appeared in Santa Ana, California. Without his help, Laura might not have survived the difficult birth that killed her mother. He disappeared as quickly as he came only...

In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions an...

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New Yor...

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncert...

A small European village tucked into a black leather handbag, a convenience store with pajama-clad clerks and zombie customers, the messy divorce of a living man and a dead woman, and a rural house haunted by rabbits are some of the m...

Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth once again to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies, joining force...

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The...

Denish Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spira...

Six Christmas stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi magazine, along with two original tales, are presented here in a special holiday gift book that includes "Adaptation," "In Coppelius's Toyshop," and &qu...

The only comprehensive collection of short fiction by the internationally popular novelist available contains all thirty-six stories of romance and political intrigue from the three volumes 12 Red Herrings, A Twist in the Tale, and A ...

All the stories are told with the skill which the author has perfected over the years, narrated with meticulous precision in a voice that is unmistakably Ontarian in its lack of emphasis, its sly humor and willingness to live with a m...

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction: "The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri."—Financial Times Passing from the mannered d...

[O]f all [Byatt's] fictions, it now seems to me that it is the short stories that are most likely to endure....[M]y reaction to these stories is one of joy in their exhilaration, intelligence, boldness and inventiveness, and a sort of...

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as "a virtuoso of waking dreams" comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Stev...

Troubled Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the L.A.P.D. finds two apparently disparate cases becoming one and centering on the fiendish psychiatrist, Doctor John the Night Tripper, as the two square off in a life or death struggle. ...

Through fiction of dazzling skill and astonishing emotional force, Siobhan Fallon welcomes readers into the American army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are left to cope after...

A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers—a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of ...

This collection of short stories by Chinese-born writer Ha Jin contains meditations on characters in the margin: a homosexual husband, counter help at an American fast-food restaurant, and a happy amnesiac satisfied in his new life. H...

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite FrançaiseWritten between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Nemirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the d...

These 19 stories are often violent or are about people with violent pasts, including a teacher who seduces a disturbed boy, a woman whose ideal life is broken apart by the events of 9/11, and a pair of siblings who return to the scene...

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--Here is the effect of these two books,- wrote the Chicago Tribune: -A reader finishes them buzzing with awe--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in...

The master of horror and suspense turns his pen to more subtle storytelling in these five interconnected stories in which he explores the darker sides of human nature as he chronicles the 1960s and their aftermath in American life. Re...

Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six ye...

J.D. Salinger's writing is original, first rate, serious and beautiful. Here are nine of his stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside...

A far-ranging collection of stories, first published in 1983, encompasses childhood memories, thoughts on the reality of parents growing old, exotic friends, mundane lives, unexpected loves, and the inner world of hidden places we hid...

This collection of 15 of Dave Eggers's stories includes some that have been highly acclaimed and several that have never been published before. 'Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance' is about a young man coping with his cousin'...