Short Story Suggestions
(June 2005)
American | African American | Childrens | Famous Authors | Love Stories | Mystery | Recent | Young Adult | Books on Tape
These are just a few suggestions. More short story collections can be found in the fiction section, and in non-fiction by subject. We would be pleased to help you. Just ask at the Reference Desk?
For full-text short stories online, take a look at http://www.short-stories.co.uk.
American:
- 50 great American short stories (FIC Fif)
- 100 years of cowboy stories (WFIC One)
- American short story masterpieces (FIC Ame)
- Best American short stories (FIC Bes)
- Classic American short stories (FIC Cla)
- Great stories of the American west (WFIC Gre)
- Norton book of American short stories (FIC Nor)
- Oxford book of American short stories (FIC Oxf)
- Oxford book of short stories (FIC Pri)
African American:
- Hughes, Langston: Short stories (FIC Hug)
- Hughes, Langston: Simple speaks his mind (FIC Hug)
- Children of the night (FIC Chi)
- Calling the wind: 20th century African American short stories (FIC Cal)
Children's:
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( J FIC Doy)
- Classic Mysteries ( J FIC Cla)
- Great writers and kids write mystery stories ( J FIC Gre)
- Kipling, Rudyard: Jungle book ( J FIC Kip)
- Kipling, Rudyard: Just so stories ( J FIC Kip)
- Newberry Zoo ( J FIC New)
- Dahl, Roald: The Wonderful story of Henry Sugar ( J FIC Dah)
Famous Authors:
- Bradbury, Ray: Illustrated man (SCIFIC Bra)
- Bradbury, Ray: Driving blind (FIC Bra)
- Clark, Mary Higgins: The Lottery winner (FIC Cla)
- Crane, Stephen: Great short works... (FIC Cra)
- Faulkner, William: Collected stories (FIC Fau)
- Hemingway, Ernest: Nick Adams stories (FIC Hem)
- Hemingway, Ernest: Short stories (FIC Hem)
- Henry, O.: Collected stories (FIC Hen)
- Henry, O.: Gift of the Magi... (J FIC Hen)
- Henry, O.: Best of O. Henry (FIC Hen)
- Herriot, James: James Herriot's animal stories (BIOG Herriot)
- Herriot, James: James Herriot's favorite dog stories (636.7 Her)
- Irving, Washington: Rip Van Winkle (FIC Irv)
- Irving, Washington: Legend of Sleepy Hollow (FIC Irv)
- Poe, Edgar Allen: (various titles) (FIC Poe)
Love Stories:
- Blossoms: five stories (ROMFIC Blo)
- Courts of love (FIC Gil)
- Everlasting love (ROMFIC Eve)
- Flower girls (ROMFIC Flo)
- Holiday of love (ROMFIC Hol)
- Inventing the Abbotts (FIC Mil)
- Once upon a star (ROMFIC Onc)
Mystery:
- Dover: the collected short stories (MFIC Por)
- Inspector Forsooth's whodunits (793.73 Nie)
- Mary Higgins Clark presents The plot thickens (MFIC Cla)
- Miss Marple: the complete short stories (MFIC Chr)
- Mom, apple pie, and murder (MFIC Mom)
Recent:
- Barnes, Julian: The Lemon Table (FIC Bar)
- Best of the Best: 20 years of the Year's best science fiction (SCIFIC Bes)
- Eggers, Dave: How we are hungry (FIC Egg)
- Hernandez, Lolita: Autopsy of an engine: and other stories from the Cadillac plant (FIC Her)
- Liddle, Rod: Too beautiful for you: tales of improper behavior (FIC Lid)
- McCall Smith, Alexander: Heavenly date and other flirtations (MFIC McCal)
- Munro, Alice: Runaway (FIC Mun)
Young Adult:
- Back of beyond: stories of the supernatural (YA FIC Ell)
- First sightings: stories of American youth (YA FIC Fir)
- Ultimate sports: short stories by outstanding writers (YA FIC Ult)
- Who am I without him? Short stories about girls and the boys in their lives (YA FIC Fla)
Books on Tape:
- American short stories (CASS FIC Ame)
- Bay City blues (CASS MFIC Cha)
- Beyond the great snow mountains (CASS WFIC Lamo)
- Cat who had 14 tales (CASS MFIC Cha)
- Flights of angels (CASS FIC Gil)
- Great Russian short stories (CASS 891.7 Gre)
- Into the twilight, endless grousing (CASS 817.54 McMan)
- Life these days (CASS FIC Kei)
- Rumpole a la care (CASS MFIC Mor)
- Cather, Willa: Stories (CASS FIC Cat)
