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January

Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form: Approaches by American and British Women Writers by Ellen Burton Harrington

One Human Family and Other Stories (Korean Voices) by Yeun-hee Chung and Hyun-Jae Yee Sallee

Cape: And Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto (Stone Bridge Fiction) by Kenji Nakagami and Eve Zimmerman

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse by Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, and Octavia E. Butler  
*Review coming soon*

Twenty Nine Short Stories (Feather Books Short Stories) by Elaine Day

Necronomicon: The Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (Gollancz S.F.) by H. P. Lovecraft

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides  
*Reviewed In Issue 4 Feb 2008*

Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods, Fly by Night Press, and Finley Kipp (cover)
*Review coming soon*

Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories by Wanda Coleman

The Complete Stories (P.S.) by Zora Neale Hurston

Valentines by Olaf Olafsson

Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
*Review coming soon*

How They Met, and Other Stories by David Levithan
*Reviewed In Issue 8 June 2008*

Eyes to See by Bret Lott

The Best of Best American Erotica 2008: 15th Anniversary Edition (Best American Erotica) by Susie Bright
*Reviewed In Issue 6 April 2008*

Bang Crunch (Vintage Contemporaries) by Neil Smith 
*Reviewed In Issue 7 May 2008*

What It Takes to Be Human by Marilyn Bowering

Selected Stories by Parashuram

Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories by M. Asaduddin

A Year In Ink by Thomas Larson

The Deportees: and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle
 *Reviewed In Issue 4 Feb 2008*

Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar

A Correction of Drift: A Novel in Stories by Pamela Ryder

Dark Roots: Stories by Cate Kennedy

Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers by Lee Child

Get Down: Stories by Asali Solomon

Some Faces in the Crowd: Short Stories by Budd Schulberg

Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories (P.S.) by Debra Dean

RYAN SEACREST IS FAMOUS: Stories by Dave Housely by Dave Housley
*Reviewed In Issue 8 June 2008*

Tell It to Us Easy and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in Opportunity Magazine 1923-1948 by Judith Musser

Tyrants Stories by Marshall N. Klimasewiski

FUTURES FROM NATURE by Ed. Henry Gee

Fantasy: The Best of the Year by Rich Horton

Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome

Love and Other Possibilities by Lewis Davies

The Cool EP (Mono) by Patrick Chapman, Sarah Salway, and Sally Spedding

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year by Rich Horton

A Strangers Touch: Short Stories by Indrani Raimedhi

The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Short Stories from the Pushcart Prize Series by B Henderson

Collected Stories 2: v. 2 by Ruth Rendell

More Five Minute Erotica: 35 Tales of Sex and Seduction by Carol Queen

Contemporary Israeli Women's Writing by Risa Domb

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King

Bedford Square: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme: No. 3 by Andrew Motion

Grl2Grl: Short Fictions by Julie Anne Peters

Awake in the Dark by Shira Nayman

The Nightingales of Troy Connected Stories by A Fulton
February

You Must Be This Happy to Enter (Punk Planet Books) by Elizabeth Crane

Out of the Depths & Other Stories (Modern Hebrew Classics) by Y. H. Brenner

Strangers Waiting by Sally Spedding

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Occasional Demons by Rick Hautala

New Stories from the Southwest by Ray Gonzalez and D. Seth Horton

Dinner with Osama (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction) by Marilyn Krysl

The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction by Maria Crossan and Eleanor Rees

The I Love You Book
(Salt Modern Fiction) by William Guy

Body Parts: An Anatomy of Love
(Salt Modern Fiction) by Richard Bardsley *Reviewed In Issue 9 July 2008*

The Last Leaf of Harlem: Selected and Newly Discovered Fiction by the Author of The Wedding by Dorothy West and Lionel C. Bascom

Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff

Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
*Reviewed In Issue 7 May 2008*

Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

How This Night Is Different: Stories by Elisa Albert

Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
*Review coming soon*

In a Bear's Eye by Yannick Murphy 
*Review coming soon*

A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien and Philip Roth

Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women by Hertha D. Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, and Jana Sequoya Magdaleno

Other Voices by Andrew Humphrey

Venus on the Half-Shell and Others by Philip Jose Farmer, Tom Wode Bellman, and Christopher Paul Carey

The Perfect Loaf by Angus Dunn

Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.) (Penguin Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, Sue Wilson, and Louise Welsh

Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Franz Kafka and Michael Hofmann

Blackouts by Craig Boyko

Llamadas Perdidas by Pia Barros

The New Weird by Jeff Vandermeer and Ann Vandermeer

The Revelation: And a Hundred Other Stories by Adrian Graham

New York Echoes: Short Stories by Warren Adler

Listening to Mondrian: And Other Stories by Nadia Wheatley

An Ambulance Is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble by Jonathan Wilson

The Greedy Hunter by Martins Agbonlahor

Horror: The Best of the Year (Horror: The Best of) by Stefan Dziemianowicz

The Girl Who Lived Alone by Peter Rogers

Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women by Rachel Kramer Bussel
*Review coming soon*

Bonne Route by Ian Daley - Route
*Reviewed In Issue 9 July 2008*

Japanese Dreams by Sean Wallace

50 Rooms by Jason Allen Cole 
*Review coming soon*
March

The Sherpa and Other Fictions by Nila Gupta

Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by
the Fall by Peter Wild
 
*Reviewed In Issue 7 May 2008*

Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women
by Urvashi Butalia

Elysium: & Other Stories
by Pamela Stewart

Arguing With the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Jewish Women Writers) by Rhea Tregebov

Words from a Glass Bubble (Salt Modern Fiction) by Vanessa Gebbie 
*Reviewed In Issue 9 July 2008*

Sister Morphine (Salt Modern Fiction) by Catherine Eisner

A Searching Glance'
(Salt Modern Fiction) by Linda Cracknell

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (The James Tiptree Award Anthology series) by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith

Happiness (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
by Ann Harleman  


Black Swan, White Raven
by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

On Horseback and Other Stories (Capuchin Classics) by Guy de Maupassant and Edmund Howard

Corrections to My Memoirs: Collected Stories
by Michael Kun

Altogether, One at a Time by E.L. Konigsburg, Gail E. Haley, Mercer Mayer, and Gary Parker

Brandon Twenty-five
by Steve MacDonogh

Final Night: Short Stories by Buthaina Al Nasiri

Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories by L. E. Modesitt 

The View from the Seventh Layer
by Kevin Brockmeier

Knockemstiff
by Donald Ray Pollock

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa

The Only Girl by Bertha Thomas

Theft: Stories
by N. S. Köenings 

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff

Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Katherine Mansfield and Lorna Sage

Flesh to Flesh
by Lee Hayes

Death and The Flower by Koji Suzuki

Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan

Far North and Other Dark Tales
by Sara Maitland

The Empty Page
by Peter Wild

Short Stories for Inquiring Minds by P. T. Brewster

PERFECT SCAR AND OTHER STORIES, A (Southern Tier Editions) by Trebor Healey

Beyond the Breakwater: Short Stories 1948-1998 by O.E. Middleton

Rescue Missions: Stories by F Busch

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, The: 2 (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) by Holly Black, Bruce Sterling, and etc.

A Model World by Michael Chabon

The Dream Lover: Short Stories by William Boyd
*Reviewed In Issue 8 June 2008*

Havana Noir (Akashic Noir) by Achy Obejas

The Omega Force by Rick Moody

I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs  
*Review coming soon*

Taking Pictures by Anne Enright 
 Reviewed In Issue 9 July 2008*

Short Stories (I) by Toby Litt

Naughty Spanking Stories: From A to Z: 1 by Miranda Forbes

Fishing's Best Short Stories by Paul D. Staudohar

Under the Bridge / Bajo El Puente: Stories from the Border/Relatos Desde La Frontera
by Rosario Sanmiguel and John Pluecke
April

Complete Shorter Fiction (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde

Butterfly Tears by Zo S. Roy

Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories by John Kessel

Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates

Wandering Through Unlikely Worlds by Dhruva Chak

Children of the Revolution, edited by Nicholas Royle

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
*Review coming soon*

A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection by Aimee Liu and Stacy Bierlein

Silent Retreats (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Philip F. Deaver

Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories by Lore Segal

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia

Oh Don't You Cry for Me: Stories by Philip Shirley

The Obvious Child by Matt Shaw

Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry

Low Flying Aircraft (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by T. M. McNally

In the Fear Zone by Lowell, B. Komie

For Everyone Concerned: & Other Stories by Damien Wilkins

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine by Mark Paterson

Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson
*Reviewed In Issue 9 July 2008*

Blood Pudding by Art Corriveau

Bawdy Bedtime Stories by Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

Balefires by David Drake

Tranquil Star: Stories by Primo Levi, Ann Goldstein, and Alessandra Bastagli

What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

Keeper of Dreams by Orson Scott Card

Silent Girl by Tricia Dower
*Review coming soon*

The Girl on the Fridge: Stories by 
Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, and Sondra Silverston

Friendly Fire: Ten Tales of Today's Cairo by Alaa Al Aswany

The Starry Rift by Jonathan Strahan

Unsafe Attachments by Caroline Oulton

Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers by Michael Emmerich

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano

Caravan Thieves by Gerard Woodward

Woods and Waters Wild by Charles De Lint

The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories by Lesley Dormen

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan

RED CAR: Stories by Sallie Bingham

Steampunk by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

Perpetual Care and Other Stories by James Nolan

Nano Comes to Clifford Falls: And Other Stories by Nancy Kress

Agnes Owens: The Complete Short Stories by Agnus Owens

Casualty of War, A: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories by Peter Burton

Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Persephone Classics) by Mollie Panter-Downes

M Is for Magic
by Neil Gaiman and Teddy Kristiansen 
*Review coming soon*
May

The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories (Latino Voices/Vidas) by Ilan Stavans

Binding Energy by Daniel Marcus
*Review coming soon*

Another Santana Morning by Mike Dolan

The Most Serene Republic: love stories from cities (Salt Modern Fiction) by John Saul

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 by Laura Furman

In the Driver's Seat (Vintage Contemporaries) by Helen Simpson

Happy Trails to You: Stories by Julie Hecht

Clear Moments
by Miha Mazzini

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)
by Ambrose Bierce

The Boat by Nam Le

A Prisoner of Memory: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenburg

Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories
by Rebecca Barry 
*Reviewed In Issue 4 Feb 2008*

The Difference Between Women and Men: Stories
by Bret Lott

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories
by Jincy Willett

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff, Paul Foote, and Donna Orwin

Galactic North
by Alastair Reynolds

Farewell Navigator: Stories
by Leni Zumas

Church Booty
by Carol Manley
*Review coming soon*

Liars in Love by Richard Yates

Faint Heart: And Other Stories by Jack Hopkins

Memories of Babi by Siegel and Aranka Siegal West Highland Tales

Apologies Forthcoming
by Xujun Eberlein 
*Reviewed In Issue 8 June 2008*
June

Most of It by Mary Ruefle

Mafeking Road: And Other Stories
by Herman Charles Bosman

Long Days
by Maike Wetzel and Lyn Marven

I Love You When I'm Drunk
by Empar Moliner and Peter Bush

Getting Even: Revenge Stories
by Mitzi Szereto

Dinaane: Short Stories by Women from South Africa
by Maggie Davey

After the Fires
by Ursula Pflug

The Tale (Modern Voices)
by Joseph Conrad

Casa de geishas by Ana Maria Shua

A Little Javanese
by Andre Mangeot

Ballistics
by Alex Keegan

'Rothko's Red'
by Sue Hubbard

Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block

Mad Woman on the Bridge and Other Stories by Su Tong

Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
by Lara Vapnyar

Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan

The Glass Slipper and Other Stories (Dalkey Japanese Literature)
by Shotaro Yasuoka and Royall Tyler

The Complete Stories (Vintage International)
by David Malouf

The Bazaar and Other Stories
by Eliza
 beth Bowen and Allan Hepburn

Sideways In Crime
by Lou Anders

Transported by Tim Jones *Review coming soon*

White Flames: Erotic Dreams by Cecilia Tan

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Wyoming Stories)
by Annie Proulx

Refresh, Refresh
by Benjamin Percy
*Review coming soon*

Mere Anarchy
by Woody Allen

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates

The Separate Heart
by Simon Robson

Lost in Uttar Pradesh: New and Selected Stories
by Evan S. Connell

July

Still Life: And Other Stories (Stone Bridge Fiction) by Junzo Shono and Lammers

Wifeshopping: Stories
by Steven Wingate  
*Review coming soon*

The Pilgrims (Hesperus Classics)
by Mary Shelley

The People on Privilege Hill
by Jane Gardam

New World Order: Stories
by Derek Green

The Exclamation Mark (Hesperus Classics)
by Anton Chekhov 

Young Irelanders
by Gerard Donovan
*Review coming soon*

The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories
by Alice Fulton 

The Collected Stories
by Leonard Michaels

Loverboys
by Ana Castillo

Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel *Review coming soon*

Cat in the Ghetto: Stories by Rachmil Bryks, Bella Bryks-Klein, Adam Rovner, and S. Morris Engel

My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier and Richard Holmes

Mapping The Beast: The Best Of Leviathan
by Jeff VanderMeer

The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1: The Variable Man and other Stories
by Philip K. Dick

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes by Tess Uriza Holthe

Exceptions to Reality: Stories
by Alan Dean Foster

The Accidental Time Machine
by Joe Haldeman

Vermeer's Milkmaid
by Manuel Rivas

The Sorrows of Egret Lake: Selected Stories by Duanmu Hongliang by Duanmu Hongliang, Howard Goldblatt, and Haili Kong

Glass Slipper and Other Stories, The (Japanese Literature)
by Yosuoka and Shotaro

 Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler and Karin Slaughter

Lands of Memory
by Felisberto Hernandez and Esther Allen
August

Translating Libya: The Modern Libyan Short Story (Soas Middle East Issues Series) by Ethan Chorin

Old Devil Moon
by Christopher Fowler

The Man Back There and Other Stories by David Crouse and Mary Gaitskill

Demons in the Spring
by Joe Meno

Wreck of the Godspeed: And Other Stories
by James Patrick Kelly

Visit Me in California: Stories by Cooley Windsor

A Permanent Freedom
by Curdella Forbes

Moon Flights
by Elizabeth Moon

The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Breakfast at Twilight and other Stories
by Philip K. Dick

The Best of the Bubbas of the Apocalypse
by Selina Rosen

The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates

Short-Tempered Melancholic and Other Stories
by Arina Tanemura

Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas
by Rick Moody

What You Call Winter (Vintage)
by Nalini Jones

One More Year: Stories
by Sana Krasikov 

Elberel: Short Stories by Mongolian Women
by Jantsangiyn Bat-Ireedui and Kazuyuki Okada 
*Review coming soon*

Pixtos an Anthology of Basque Short Fiction by Mari Jose Olaziregi

The Scarlet Gospels
by Clive Barker

No Star Too Beautiful: An Anthology of Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present
by Joachim Neugroschel

Lose Something Every Day
by Debra Dean

A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love
by Ben Greenman

Biting point by Catherine Smith

Untitled short story collection by Jeremy Dyson

The Best of Rock Fiction by June Skinner Sawyers (ed)
Sept

A Chapter of Hats: Selected Stories (Translated by John Gledson) by Machado De Assis

The Best Short Stories of Saki (Collector's Library)
by Saki A

The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman

Naughty Spanking Stories: From A to Z: 2 by Miranda Forbes

Vanilla Bright like Eminem
by Michel Faber
*Review coming soon*

Walking To The Moon
by Sean McMullen

The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg
by Deborah Eisenberg

The Atheist's Bible by Shalom Camenietzki

Fine Just the Way it is (Wyoming Stories 3)
by Annie Proulx

H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: A Weird Tales Retrospective ed by John Gregory Betancourt and Robert Weinberg

Agatha Christie: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

Confessions of a Falling Woman  by Debra Dean

The Other End of the Rainbow by David Gardiner



October

The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith by Clark Ashton Smith

Amuse-bouche by Arnon Grunberg and Lisa Friedman

Stonetree by Gyroir Eliasson and Brian Fitzgibbon

How I Became a Holy Mother by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Dancing With Angels by Gary Morecambe

The
Undivided Self: Selected Stories by Will Self

Hardly Knew Her: Stories
 by Laura Lippman

Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories by David Weber

The Journey Prize Stories 20: The Best of Canada's New Writers The Journey Prize Stories 20: The Best of Canada's New Writers by Various, Lynn Coady, and Heather O'Neill

Jambula Tree: The Caine Prize for African Writing 8th Annual Collection: edited by Monica . Arac de Nyeko  

Ghosts of Chicago by John McNally

Futures from Nature edited by Henry Gee

The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 edited by Otto Penzler, George Pelecanos

When I Always Wanted Something by Carol Glasser Langille

November

In Bed With...: Jessica Adams, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Maggie Alderson, Kathy Lette by Imogen Edwards-Jones, Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, and Kathy Lette

Subtle Edens: The Elastic Book of Slipstream  by Allen Ashley (Editor)  
*Review coming soon*

Jesus is Sending you this Message by Jim Grimsley

Flying to America: 45 More Stories by Donald Barthelme

Farewell to Dejla by Tova Sadka#

Presence: Stories by Arthur Miller

Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen

Silver Birch, Blood Moon  by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Doris Lessing Stories by Doris Lessing

In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor

Unending Rooms by Daniel Chacon

Last Known Position by James Mathews

The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford

The Last Science Fiction Writer by Allen Steele

Jesus is Sending You This Message by Jim Grimsley

Forgetting English by Midge Raymond
December

The Torturer's Wife by Thomas Glave

Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee by James Tate

In the Convent of Little Flowers by Indu Sundaresan

The People of the Book edited by Jeanelle M Ferreira