Short story anthologies

Descrição
Books of short stories written by various authors that you enjoyed reading & would recommend. (I've chosen ones with stories in conventional form with stories that might, hopefully, have a broad appeal.)
1
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
por Alberto Manguel
500 membros
8 críticas
4.1
2 Members
spiphany, bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: A pleasingly fat book.
2
Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress
por Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
7 membros
1 crítica
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Subtitle says it all.
3
The Custom-House of Desire: A Half Century of Surrealist Stories
por J. H. Matthews
46 membros
1 crítica
4
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: The surrealism lies more in the off-beat content than in the way in which the stories are written.
4
Telling Tales
por Nadine Gordimer
345 membros
2 críticas
3.2
Member
spiphany
5
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories
por Daniel Halpern
339 membros
3 críticas
3.9
Member
spiphany
6
Short Shorts
por Irving Howe
257 membros
4 críticas
4.1
Member
spiphany
8
Read Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices
por Elena Shubina
14 membros
Member
spiphany
9
Man in the Fictional Mode, Book 4
por Hannah Haupt
4 membros
½ 4.5
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Possibly books in this series were used in US high school classes back in the day? I came across two of them when I was young and they made me very eager to read more by some of the authors.
10
Best European Fiction 2012
por Aleksandar Hemon
73 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: I've read several in this series and this was my favourite.
11
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease
por Sarah Eyre
52 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.3
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Stories inspired by Freud's thoughts on the uncanny. It won an award which isn't surprising because it's a good one and a couple at least of the stories are memorable.
12
THE BELGIAN SCHOOL OF THE BIZARRE: An Anthology of Short Stories
por Kim Connell
22 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.5
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Good collection of little-known stories that is however not a pipe.
13
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature
por Roger Goodman
298 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Most of the writers are familiar but many of the stories aren't. Stories are very short ones.
14
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
por Mike Ashley
239 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Undemanding but on the whole great fun.
15
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
por Barbara H. Solomon
187 membros
2 críticas
4.1
16
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories
por Kate Figes
114 membros
½ 3.4
17
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories
por Chris Brazier
98 membros
3.9
18
A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents
por Lynda Prescott
96 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
19
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
por Dohra Ahmad
75 membros
1 crítica
3.8