Seattle Picks: Short Stories
Recently published single-author short story collections and multi-author anthologies. Annotations from NoveList unless otherwise specified. (Updated August 2024)
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So Late in the Day
A collection of stories that explore relationships through a series of fraught encounters. (Kirkus)
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The World Wasn't Ready for You
Short stories using the tropes of horror and science fiction with intelligence, compassion, and wry abandon to analyze and analogize racial misunderstanding. (Kirkus)
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Roman Stories
Translated from Italian into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this masterful collection of nine short stories has Rome, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical, as the protagonist, not the setting.
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My First Book
This inventive, ambitious and frequently surreal collection of stories, emerging from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z, illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked and completely sincere.
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Craft
A collection of short stories as told by a Brazilian-American writer who slept with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999 and who spends the rest of her life describing to him beautiful and impossible things.
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White Cat, Black Dog
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge or their own sense of purpose.
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Seasonal Work
Bestseller Lippman displays her uncanny understanding of human nature and all its foibles in this worthy collection of 12 stories involving deceit, violence, and psychological mayhem. (Publishers Weekly)
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A View From the Stars
This collection of Liu’s essays, interviews, and early short works spans three decades (1987-2015) and offers up a palatable blend of speculative science fiction and insightful articles on the genre’s past and future. (Kirkus)
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Bliss Montage
Ma...proves her biting sense of humor and gift for subtlety in a collection of eight short stories, all surreal and jarring in the most sensational way. (Booklist)
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Marple
Starring Agatha Christie's legendary detective Jane Marple, this brand-new collection of short stories is written by 12 best-selling and acclaimed authors--each of which reimagines Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
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