By Tim Manley
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Favorite fairy tale characters are depicted as living in the 21st century and find themselves braving creeps on dating sites, gluten allergies, and Facebook stalkers.

By Edward P. Jones

A collection of fourteen short stories is set in Washington, D.C., and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life.

By Dan Chaon

Focusing on the condition of the modern family, a thematically linked collection of short fiction captures the lives, dreams, and fates of men, women, and children who live outside of the American Dream.

By Jeffrey Archer
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“…Some of these stories will make you laugh while others will bring you to tears but, once again, every one of them will demand that you keep turning the page until you finally discover what happens to this remarkable cast of characters (From the Publisher).”

By Hilary Mantel

A collection of contemporary short stories about England includes monster tales, near-memoir pieces, and mini-sagas of family and social fracture as triggered by sex, marriage, and class.

By Emma Donoghue

A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana. 

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother, comes up with a plan to save Harry from the evil Stygian Sisterhood while continuing to conceal his involvement in the Oblivion War (From the Publisher).”

By Claire Vaye Watkins
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"A debut collection of ten short works re-imagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner’s arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit’s attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman’s role in a friend’s degrading Vegas encounter (From the Publisher)."

By Jack London

Tales of human encounters with nature in the brutal world of the Pacific in the early 1900's.

By Edith Pearlman

Presents a collection of short stories that focus on the trials and tribulations of a group of Northeasterners.

By Lorrie Moore

A new collection of twelve stories by the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? includes the title story about a second-rate movie actress who returns home and becomes involved with a mechanic, “Charades,” and “Which is More Than I Can Say about Some People.”

By James Crawford
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A collection of short stories from some of Scotland's top crime writers celebrate twelve of the nation's most iconic buildings.

Celebrates the finest works of literary espionage in a collection that features contributions by such authors as Eric Ambler, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, and Rebecca West.

By Truman Capote

The tale of a fun-loving, amoral playgirl in New York City is accompanied by "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory."

Became the movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Presents an urban fantasy-story collection starring Windy City wizard Harry Dresden and featuring an assembly of famous guest editors, in an anthology that includes the original novella, "Zoo Day."

By Andrew Blauner

A tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked.

By Julie Otsuka
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

By Voltaire

The story of Candide, a naive youth who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live, is accompanied by four other stories.

By Alexander McCall Smith

A collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each inspired by an evocative old photo, includes the stories of a nun who leaves the sisterhood to discover big-city life and a romance between a circus ventriloquist and animal handler.

By Alexander Weinstein
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A collection of short stories takes place in an unsettling future where humans growing dependence on new technologies results in social media implants, memory manufacturers, harmfully immersive virtual reality games, and disturbingly intuitive robots.

By Otto Penzler (ed.)

Mystery short stories, set during Christmas season, and take place in The Mysterious Bookshop.

By Edgar Allan Poe

The complete stories by the master who influenced French symbolism, Freudian analysis, and Hollywood movies, includes his well–known tales of suspense and macabre as well as his lesser–known stories.

By George R.R. Martin (ed.)

A collection of twenty-one short stories celebrates dangerous women, both heroines and villains, and includes a new Outlander tale by Diana Gabaldon, a George R.R. Martin novella set in the world of “A Game of Thrones,” and a Harry Dresden contribution by Jim Butcher.

By George R.R. Martin (ed.)

Dangerous Women Vol. 2 includes stories by Lev Grossman, Sharon Kay Penman, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Caroline Spector, and Nancy Kress, and features an entirely new 28,000-word “Outlander” novella by New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.

By Elizabeth Berg
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“A jewel-like collection of short stories … Berg is skilled at depicting the subtle interplay among women, their friends, spouses and families. This collection focuses on quiet, intensely personal discoveries … Berg's writing is so gentle, her people so real, that even these sad stories generate warmth (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Leo Tolstoy

The first major fictional work published by Tolstoy; this short novel reflects the author’s struggle to find the meaning of life.

By Edwidge Danticat

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him.

By A.S. Byatt

The title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine - a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling - and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar.

By Allegra Goodman

Told through weddings, deaths, academic conferences, and dreams, the uniquely humorous story of three generations of Markowitzes is revealed, creating a familial world of conflict, confusion, and love.

By Ann Rule

A collection of true-crime stories features doomed relationships and speaks for the victims who trusted the wrong people, including the story of the deaths of a billionaire's son and girlfriend in his California mansion.

By Thomas H. Cook
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Collects the short stories of Thomas H. Cook, one of America’s most celebrated crime fiction authors (From the Publisher).”

By Lily King
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A collection of short stories from the best-selling author of Writers & Lovers explores desire, heartache, loss and love in tales about a neglected teenage boy befriended by housesitting college students and a booksellers unspoken love for his employee.

By John Gruen

A collection of fourteen short fables each of which describes a different flower.

By Nathan Englander

Rooted in Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life, an irreverent anthology of ten stories includes The Twenty-Seventh Man about an unpublished writer who mistakenly lands in a Stalinist prison, and The Gilgul of Park Avenue about a Protestant who wakes up to discover he has become a Jew.

By John Grisham

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

By Adam Johnson
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A collection of stories includes two previously unpublished pieces and explores themes of love, loss, and the consequences of decisions made in the face of tragedy.

By Neil Gaiman

A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.

By Edith Wharton

Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities

By Tananarive Due

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness.

By Jack Dann

Featuring stories by James Morrow, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix and Robert Silverberg, this spellbinding collection of steampunk and supernatural tales breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.

By Robert Olen Butler
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life (From the Publisher).”

By Shirley Jackson

This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

By Fern Michaels

A collection of four Christmas romance stories includes Fern Michaels' "Holiday Magic," in which ski shop manager Stephanie Marshall gets an unexpected Christmas bonus in the form of her handsome boss, Eddie O'Brien.

By Ursula Hegi

Presents eleven tales about characters who take on a risky personal search for the unique place where faith can thrive for each of them, whether it is a run-down hotel, an animal shelter, or the embrace of an ex-convict.

By Wally Lamb (ed.)

A new collection of writings from the members of the author’s program in Connecticut’s York Correctional Facility features pieces by twenty women who describe the experiences that shaped their lives as well as the lessons they have learned about the power of the written word.

By Daniyal Mueenuddin

A volume of linked stories describes the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan, in a collection that explores such themes as culture, class power, and desire.

By Lawrence Block (editor)
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A newly commissioned anthology of 17 stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper is complemented by quality full-color reproductions and includes contributions by such forefront authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King and Lee Child.

By Gabriel García Márquez

“This collection of fiction includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Erendira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother (From the Publisher).”

By Jhumpa Lahiri

Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Sen's is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.

By John Updike

The first of two volumes in this definitive collection of work from the author of the Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom series includes over 100 of his classic short stories in chronological order.