Editors Reads

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Short Stories

26 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Annie Proulx: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Annie Proulx — how to approach The Shipping News, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A complete reading guide to the American author.

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Where to Start with Anton Chekhov: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Anton Chekhov — how to approach The Cherry Orchard and his essential short stories. A complete reading guide to the Russian master.

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Where to Start with Benjamín Labatut: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Benjamín Labatut — whether to begin with When We Cease to Understand the World or MANIAC. A complete reading guide to the Chilean author.

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Where to Start with Denis Johnson: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Denis Johnson — whether to begin with Jesus' Son or Tree of Smoke. A complete reading guide to the National Book Award-winning American author.

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Where to Start with Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Isaac Bashevis Singer — whether to begin with Gimpel the Fool, The Family Moskat, or The Magician of Lublin. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with J.D. Salinger: A Reading Guide

Where to start with J.D. Salinger — whether to begin with The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, or Nine Stories. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Junot Díaz: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Junot Díaz — whether to begin with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown, or This Is How You Lose Her. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Nathaniel Hawthorne — whether to begin with The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, or Twice-Told Tales. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Tim O'Brien: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Tim O'Brien — how to approach The Things They Carried, his essential masterwork on Vietnam, memory, and storytelling. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Tobias Wolff: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Tobias Wolff — whether to begin with This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, or his short stories. A complete reading guide to the American memoirist.

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Alice Munro Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Alice Munro's complete bibliography in order — from Lives of Girls and Women and Dear Life to Too Much Happiness. Best starting points for the Nobel Prize winner.

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Best Short Story Collections: Essential Reading List

The best short story collections ever written — from Dubliners and Nine Stories to Interpreter of Maladies and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

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Denis Johnson Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Denis Johnson's complete bibliography in order — from Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke to Train Dreams. Best starting points for new readers of his fiction and poetry.

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J.D. Salinger Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

J.D. Salinger's complete bibliography in order — from The Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories to Franny and Zooey. Best starting points for new readers.

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Jhumpa Lahiri Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Jhumpa Lahiri's complete bibliography in order — from Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake to Unaccustomed Earth. Best starting points for new readers.

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Jorge Luis Borges Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Jorge Luis Borges's complete bibliography in order — from Ficciones and Labyrinths to The Aleph and Dreamtigers. Best starting points for new readers.

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Ray Bradbury Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Ray Bradbury's complete bibliography in order — from Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles to Something Wicked This Way Comes. The best place to start and what makes his work last.

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Raymond Carver Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Raymond Carver's complete bibliography in order — from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love to Cathedral and Where I'm Calling From. Best starting points.

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Tobias Wolff Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points

Tobias Wolff's complete bibliography in order — from This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army to Old School. Best starting points for new readers.

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Where to Start with Alice Munro: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Alice Munro — whether to begin with Dear Life, Lives of Girls and Women, or Open Secrets. A complete reading guide to Munro's short stories.

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