May is Short Story Month so why not celebrate by reading some classic short fiction. Here’s a list of short story collections worth visiting this month, or any time.
James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man
J. G. Ballard’s The Complete Stories
John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse
Donald Barthelme’s Sixty Stories; Forty Stories ; and Flying to America:
Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions
Ray Bradbury Stories
Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Leonora Carrington’s The Complete Stories
Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; and Cathedral
John Cheever’s The Stories of John Cheever
Julio Cortázar’s Blow-Up and Other Stories
Lydia Davis’s The Collected Stories
Samuel Delany’s Driftglass/Starshards; Aye, and Gomorrah, and Other Stories (Vintage); Tales of Nevèrÿon; and Atlantis: Three Tales
Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmeralda
Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures
William H. Gass’s In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Zora Neale Hurston’s Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
James Joyce’s Dubliners
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin The Unreal and the Real
Sam Lipsyte’s Venus Drive
Clarice Lispector’s Complete Stories
Rick Moody’s The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
Ottessa Mosfegh’s Homesick for Another World
Vladimir Nabokov’s Collected Stories
Flannery O’Connor’s The Complete Stories
Cynthia Ozick’s Collected Stories
Grace Paley’s The Collected Stories
Salman Rushdie’s East, West
J.D. Salinger Nine Stories
George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; Pastoralia; In Persuasion Nation (Riverhead Books); and Tenth of December
Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodilles
Theodore Sturgeon’s The Complete Stories, Vol. 1
Travel Between The Pages 