Looking for a good story?
Here’s an incomplete list of story collections and stories I admire. (Perpetually updated.)
Story collections
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda (2024)
Neighbors by Diane Oliver (2024, written in 1960s)
Beautiful Days by Zach Williams (2024)
The Hive and The Honey by Paul Yoon (2023)
This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara (2023)
Emergency by Kathleen Alcott (2023)
Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang (2023)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (2022)
Out There by Kate Folk (2022)
Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin (2022)
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (2022)
Blood Milk Heat by Dantiel Moniz (2021)
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (2021)
Skinship by Yoon Choi (2021)
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (2021)
The Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen (2021)
How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa (2020)
You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South (2020)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (2020)
Further News of Defeat by Michael X. Wang (2020)
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts by Caroline Kim (2020)
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans (2020)
A House is a Body by Shruti Swamy (2020)
Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2020)
Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok (2019)
Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang (2019)
Lot by Bryan Washington (2019)
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata (2019)
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (2019)
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe (2019)
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson (2018)
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)
You Are Having a Good Time by Amie Barrodale (2016)
Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips (2016)
The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff (2016)
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (2015, written in 1960s–1980s)
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook (2014)
Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken (2014)
The Tenth of December by George Saunders (2013)
Black Vodka by Deborah Levy (2013)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (2010)
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (2008)
Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason Brown (2007)
Twenty Grand by Rebecca Curtis (2007)
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel (2006)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (2005)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (2005)
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek (2004)
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz (2004)
Permanent Visitors by Kevin Moffett (2004)
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang (2002)
Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien (2001)
Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender (1998)
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore (1998)
Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert (1997)
Bloodchild by Octavia Butler (1995)
Jesus’s Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones (1992)
Typical by Padgett Powell (1991)
Like Life by Lorrie Moore (1990)
Airships by Barry Hannah (1978)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley (1974)
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley (1959)
Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1955)
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev (~1840s, 1990)
Stories **This section is under construction as I search for links!