I discovered Annie Proulx when I went looking for the short story that was the basis of the Brokeback Mountain movie. I was pleased to discover her other works as well.
The complete Saki – his short stories are brilliant. P.G. Wodehouse’s short stories are great too, Meet Mr Mulliner, Mr Mulliner Speaking, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, Young Men in Spats, Blandings Castle, etc.
Katharine Mansfield (Bliss and other stories) Franz Kafka (The complete stories) J D Salinger (Nine stories) Clarice Lispector (The complete stories, translator Benjamin Moser) Virginia Woolf (The complete short stories) Anton Chekov (The Anton Chekov omnibus) Flanery O’Connor (The complete stories) William Faulkner (Collected Stories) Edgar Allan Poe (Tales of Mistery and Imagination, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque)
I usually read novels, book club type fiction, but I think I’d like to try my hand at writing short story now and then (again) and so it’s as much to study the form as for enjoyment.
Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteredge & Anything Is Possible are both short story collections. Each book is a collection of intertwined stories – I just love her writing.
The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? By Raymond Carver Dear Life by Alice Munro The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I discovered Annie Proulx when I went looking for the short story that was the basis of the Brokeback Mountain movie. I was pleased to discover her other works as well.
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34368390-uncommon-type
Paris for One by Jojo Moyes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430049-paris-for-one-and-other-stories?from_search=true
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13503109-this-is-how-you-lose-her?from_search=true
Maeve Binchy has one I’m reading now called “A Few of the Girls.”
Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds and other stories. (Yes, that The Birds. But quite different from Hitchcock’s version.)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N41RJP7/
The complete Saki – his short stories are brilliant. P.G. Wodehouse’s short stories are great too, Meet Mr Mulliner, Mr Mulliner Speaking, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, Young Men in Spats, Blandings Castle, etc.
Jojo Moyes, Paris For One
Katharine Mansfield (Bliss and other stories)
Franz Kafka (The complete stories)
J D Salinger (Nine stories)
Clarice Lispector (The complete stories, translator Benjamin Moser)
Virginia Woolf (The complete short stories)
Anton Chekov (The Anton Chekov omnibus)
Flanery O’Connor (The complete stories)
William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
Edgar Allan Poe (Tales of Mistery and Imagination, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque)
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan?
Jackie Kay, Reality, Reality and a couple of other short story collections by her. She’s brilliant
Different Seasons by Stephen King.
And Skeleton Crew! Skeleton Crew is cram packed with his best, I think 🙂
Ship Fever and Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett who also wrote the novel The Air We Breathe
Alice Munro – fabulous short story writer
Yes!
Are there any authors or genres you love?
I usually read novels, book club type fiction, but I think I’d like to try my hand at writing short story now and then (again) and so it’s as much to study the form as for enjoyment.
Annie proux
Sherlock Holmes, Saki, Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteredge & Anything Is Possible are both short story collections. Each book is a collection of intertwined stories – I just love her writing.
Murakami
Language of thorns
by leigh bardugo
Night Bazaar, edited by Lenore Hart.
Following
The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? By Raymond Carver
Dear Life by Alice Munro
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie