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Anthologies

18 Lies and 3 Truths: 2007 StoryQuarterly Annual edited by Tom Jenks, Carol Edgarian, MMM Hayes

'68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution edited by Nicholas Royle

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007  edited by Carl Hiaasen

The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King, Heidi Pitlor

Best of Best American Erotica 2008 dedited by Susie Bright

Best Gay Romance 2009 edited by Richard Labonté

Best New Zealand Fiction Vol. 5 edited by Owen Marshall

Bonne Route edited by Ian Daley

Route Book at Bedtime edited by Ian Daley

The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith

Brace edited by Jim Hinks

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2008  by Various

Bucket of Frogs edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham
 

Cern Zoo
edited by D F Lewis

Criminal Tendencies edited by Lynne Patrick

Crimini: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction edited by Gialcarlo de Cataldo

Davy Byrnes Stories: The Six Prize-Winning Stories from the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing award as selected by Richard Ford.

Dirty Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fictions by Various Authors

Emerge edited by Philip Edmonds, Dominique Wilson

Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Various Authors      

Galileo's Children: Tales of Science Vs. Superstition  edited by Gardner Dozois

Getting Even: Revenge Stories edited by Mitzi Szereto

Green and Unpleasant Land by The InkerMen

HeavyGlow Flash Fiction Anthology edited by Stacy Taylor

Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform edited by Jeffery Hess

The House of Your Dream edited by Robert Alexander and Denis Maloney

I.D. Crimes of Identity The Crime Writers’ Association Anthology edited by Martin Edwards

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman, Christoper Barzak

Let's Be Alone Together edited by Declan Meade

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off edited by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith, Sarah Wood

Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories edited by John Klima

Loud Sparrows: Chinese Contemporary Short-shorts selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt

McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon

Mechanics Institute Review Issue 5 by Various

NEW Mechanics Institute Review Issue 6 by Various

My Mistress' Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides 

The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Ursula K. le Guin and Brian Attebery

One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box by Debi Olen Unferth, Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggars

One World by Various Authors

Ox Tales: Air, Earth, Fire, Water edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction Inspired by the Smiths edited by Peter Wild

Park Stories by Ali Smith, Sheena Mackay, William Boyd, Nicola Barker, Hanan al Shaykh, Clare Wigfall, Will Self

Passport to Crime edited by Janet Hutchings

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime edited by Michael Sims

The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories edited by Paula Morrris

Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall  edited by Peter Wild

Phobic edited by Andy Murray

Punk Fiction edited by Janine Bullman

Sea Stories by Various

See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming edited by Steven Coy

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Vol 2 edited by George Mann

Sleepers Almanac: The Family Affair edited by Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn

Tales of the DeCongested Vol. 2 edited by Paul Blaney and Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone

Touching the Monkey: The Best of TQRStories.com edited by Theodore Q. Rorschalk

Town of Fiction by the Atlantis Collective, edited by John Kenny

Twisted Tails III: Pure Fear edited by J. Richard Jacobs

Visiting Hours edited by Daniel E. Wickett

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams

We Are The Friction edited by Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart

When it Changes: Science into Fiction, an Anthology edited by Geoff Ryman

The World Outside the Window edited by E. Don Harpe

You are Here  by Various, edited by Bill Broady and Jill Metcalfe

You Have Time for This edited by Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka


Art-Inspired
The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather

Nude
by Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Truth and Other Fictions by Eva Tihanyi

We Are The Friction edited by Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart


Award
Winners

All That Work And Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma (Winner, 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award)

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah (Winner, Guardian First Book Award 2009, Shortlisted, 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short story Award)

And Then We Saw The Flames by Daniel A. Hoyt (Winner, 2008 Juniper Fiction Prize, longlisted, 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short story Award)

Apologies Forthcoming by Xujun Eberlein (Winner, 2007 Tartt Fiction Award)

Back Burning by Sylvia Petter (Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction)

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (Shortlisted, 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction)

The Boat by Nam Le (Winner, 2008 Library Journal Best Books of the Year; Cartagena, won a Pushcart Prize)

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2008  by Various

Collected Stories by John Cheever (Winner, 1979 Pullitzer Prize)

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro (Winner, 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction)

Davy Byrnes Stories: The Six Prize-Winning Stories from the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing award as selected by Richard Ford.

Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fictions by Various Authors (winners of the 2008 Leaf Books Micro-fiction competition)

Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese (Winner, Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award)

Drift and Swerve by Samuel Ligon (Winner, Autumn House Prize 2008)

Esther Stories by Peter Orner (Winner, Samuel GOldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction)

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander (Winner, Pen/Malamud Award 2000, Sue Kaufman Prize for  First Fiction, 2000)

Forgetting English by Midge Raymond (Winner, 2008 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction)

Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful by Deborah Kay Davies (Winner, Wales Book of the Year, 2009)

Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform edited by Jeffery Hess (Winner, Miilitary Writers Society of America Gold Medal, Best Anthology)

How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace (Winner, Rose Metal Press' Short Short Chapbook Contest)

In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsyth  (Winner, Rose Metal Press Second Short Short Chapbook Contest 2008)

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Winner, 2010 Story Prize)

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss (2007 Tiptree Award Honor List)

Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin (Winner, Reform Judaism Prize 2006, longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short Story                                                                         Award 2006, finalist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2007.)

The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall (Winner, UEA Curtis Brown Award 1999)

Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy (Winner, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2009)

Mad to Live by Randall Brown (Winner, Flume Press Fiction Prize 2007-8)

No-one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Winner, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2007)

Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Winner,British Fantasy Society Best Collection Award 2008, 2008 Edge Hill Readers'                                                                     Prize, shortlisted, 2007 Bram Stoker Awards)

One More Year  by Sana Krasikov (Winner, 2009 Sami Rohr Prize)

Our Story Begins: New and Collected Stories by Tobias Wolff (Winner, 2009 Story Prize)

Polyglot: Stories From The West's Wet Edge by Wendy Marcus (Winner, 2009 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award)

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi (Winner, 2009 Locus Award for Best Short Story Collection)

The Scent of Cinnamon and other stories by Charles Lambert (Title story, Winner, 2007 O. Henry Award)

The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts by Claudia Smith (Winner, Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest 2007)

Space Magic by David D. Levine (Winner, 2009 Endeavour Award)

NEW Temporary Lives by Ramola D (Winner, 2008 AWP Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction)

There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry (Winner, 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature)

The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter (Winner, 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman  (Winner, 2008 World Fantasy Award for best collection.)

The Turing Test by Chris Beckett (Winner, 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize)

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Winner, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2008)

Wifeshopping by Steven Wingate (Winner, 2007 Bakeless Prize for Fiction)

You Have Time for This by Various, ed by Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka (Winner, Silver, Publishers Association of the West Book Design Awards 2007)


Best Of....

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 by Various, edited by Carl Hiaasen

The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Various, edited by Stephen King, Heidi Pitlor

Best of Best American Erotica 2008 by Various, edited by Susie Bright

Best Gay Romance 2009 edited by Richard Labonté

Best New Zealand Fiction Vol. 5 edited by Owen Marshall

Touching the Monkey: The Best of TQRStories.com edited by Theodore Q. Rorschalk


Children's

M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde

Ten Journeys Through the Unknown by Heather Beck


Classic short stories

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullersgallowa

The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather

Cheating at Canasta William Trevor

Collected Stories by John Cheever

The Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Collected Stories by Richard Yates

The Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark

Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor 

Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

In Dreams Begin Resonsibilities  by Delmore Schwartz 

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde

My Mistress' Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Various, ed by Jeffrey Eugenides

Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith

Self Help  by Lorrie Moore

The Stories of Ray Bradbury: Volume 2 by Ray Bradbury

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams


Collected Stories

Collected Stories by John Cheever

The Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield 

Collected Stories by Janice Galloway

Collected Stories by Richard Yates

The Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark   

The Complete Short Stories by JG Ballard   

Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Grace Paley: The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

Our Story Begins: New and Collected Stories by Tobias Wolff

Crime


All The Little Things That We Lose by Deborah Sheldon

Bad Monkey by Curtis Smith
 
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
 by Various edited by Carl Hiaasen

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2008  by Various

Criminal Tendencies edited by Lynne Patrick

Crimini: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction edited by Gialcarlo de Cataldo

Dead Boys by Richard Lange

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah

I.D. Crimes of Identity The Crime Writers’ Association Anthology by Various

Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories by Courttia Newland

Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith
 

Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler

Ox Tales: Air, Earth, Fire, Water edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

Passport to Crime by Various edited by Janet Hutchings

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime edited by Michael Sims

Selling Their Childhood by James Buchanan


Debuts

29 Ways to Drown by Niki Aguirre

50 Rooms by Jason Allan Cole

A History of Sarcasm by Frank Burton

A Little Javanese by Andre Mangeot

All Over by Roy Kesey

All The Little Things That We Lose by Deborah Sheldon

All That Work And Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma

Alternative Medicine by Laura Solomon

American Cool by Susan DiPlacido

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

And Then We Saw The Flames by Daniel A. Hoyt

Anthropology and 100 Other Stories by Dan Rhodes

Apologies Forthcoming by Xujun Eberlein

As In Music by Kathy Page

Astral Bodies by Jay Merill

Babylon and Other Stories by Alix Ohlin

Back Burning by Sylvia Petter

Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines

Ballistics by Alex Keegan

Bang Crunch by Neil Smith

Barcelona plates by Alexei Sayle

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa

Being Normal by Stephen Shieber

Binding Energy  by Daniel Marcus

Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Boat by Nam Le

Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Body Parts: An Anatomy of Love by Richard Bardsley

The Body of This by Andrew McNabb

A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti

Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2008  by Various

Broken Doll by Neil Campbell

Butterfly Tears by Zoë S. Roy

Cello and Other Stories by Frances Thimann

Close Encounters by Jen Michalski

Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez

Criminal Tendencies edited by Lynne Patrick

The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane

Cure All by Kim Parko

The Cusp of Something by Jai Clare

Damaged Goods by Deborah Bostock-Kelley

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge

NEW Death is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca

NEW Deer and Other Stories by Susan Tepper

The Deportees by Roddy Doyle

Dial M for Monkey by Adam Maxwell

Donut Holes: Sticky Pieces of Fictionalized Realities by Matty Stanfield

Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese

Drift and Swerve by Samuel Ligon

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

EarthFuture by Guy Dauncey

Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young

Eclipses by Kiril Bozhinov

East of Here, Close to Water by Josephine Rowe

Ebb and Flow by Lorna Page

Elegy for a Fabulous World by Alta Ifland

The End of the World by Paddy O'Reilly

Esther Stories by Peter Orner

Everyday by Lee Rourke

NEW Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

Fajitas and Friends by Betty Serra-Rojas

Family Connections by Chrissie Gittins

Famous Fathers and other stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

Feeding Strays by Stefanie Freele

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction by Alison MacLeod

The Floating Order by Erin Pringle

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander

Forgetting English by Midge Raymond

God Lives in St Petersburg by Tom Bissell

Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful by Deborah Kay Davies

Greenfly by Tom Lee

Heavier than Air by Nona Caspers

Hieroglyphics and other stories by Anne Donovan

How the Broken Lead the Blind by Matt Bell

How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace

How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan

I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs

NEW If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home  by John Jodzio

In All Probability by Steve Morris

In An Uncharted Country by Clifford Garstang

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

Instruction Manual for Swallowing by Adam Marek

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor

In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsyth

Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy

Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin

Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin

The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke

Later, At the Bar by Rebecca Barry

Leading the Dance by Sarah Salway

Ledra Street by Nora Nadjarian

Liar, Liar by Alan McMonagle

Life in the Universe by MIchael J Farrell

The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall

Love Does Not Make me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods

Mad to Live by Randall Brown

The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim

Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel

Means of Escape by Hugh Brody

Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar

Migration Patterns by Gary Schanbacher

Mix Tape by A J Kirby

More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories by Courttia Newland

National Virginity Pledge: Short Stories and Other Lies by Barry Graham

Nature's Magician by Anthony Cropper

New World Order by Derek Green

Night Train  by Lise Erdrich

No-one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

NEW Normal People Don't Live Like This by Dylan Landis 

Now Playing by Shellie Zacharia

One of These Things is Not Like The Others by Stephanie Johnson

One More Year  by Sana Krasikov

Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller

Polyglot: Stories From The West's Wet Edge by Wendy Marcus

Precarious by Al Riske

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Real Louise  by Ailsa Cox

Red Poppies: Tales of Envy and Revenge by S. P. Miskowski

Remember Love by Jody Lisberger

Repetition Patterns by Ben Tanzer

Road of Five Churches  by Stephanie Dickinson

Roll Up for the Arabian Derby by Susan Wicks

Ruins and Relics by Alice Zorn

Ryan Seacrest is Famous by Dave Housley

The Scent of Cinnamon and other stories by Charles Lambert

Selling Their Childhood by James Buchanan

Silent Girl  by Tricia Dower

The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts by Claudia Smith

Some New Ambush by Carys Davies

Songs of Insurgency by Spencer Dew

Space Magic  by David D. Levine

St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Stories in the Key of C Minor by Russell Bittner

Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

NEW Temporary Lives by Ramola D

Tender by Mark Ilis

There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry

The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

Things that Pass for Love by Allison Amend

Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories by James P. Blaylock

Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman

NEW Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda

Truth and Other Fictions by Eva Tihanyi

The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

Typewriter by Jimmy Chen

Ugly Stories for Beautiful People  by James Burr

Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois

Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg

When I Always Wanted Something by Carole Glasser Langille

Why The Long Face by Ron MacLean

Wifeshopping by Steven Wingate

The Wind Across the Grass by Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Winter Hands by Annie Clarkson

Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers

Words from A Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie

The Wow Signal by Patrick Chapman

Young Irelanders  by Gerard Donovan

E-Books
Repetition Patterns by Ben Tanzer

The World Outside the Window edited by E. Don Harpe

Environment
& Nature

Route Book at Bedtime edited by Ian Daley

EarthFuture by Guy Dauncey


Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar

Ox Tales: Air, Earth, Fire, Water edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

 
Precarious by Al Riske

Sea Stories by Various

Erotic

American Cool by Susan DiPlacido

Best of Best American Erotica 2008 by Various, edited by Susie Bright

Best Gay Romance 2009 edited by Richard Labonté

Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj

The Body of This by Andrew McNabb

The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane

The Cusp of Something by Jai Clare

Dirty Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming edited by Steven Coy

Songs of Insurgency by Spencer Dew


Experimental
A History of Sarcasm by Frank Burton

Route Book at Bedtime
edited by Ian Daley

Cure All by Kim Parko

Dead Iraqis by Ellis Sharp

Eclipses by Kiril Bozhinov

Emerge edited by Philip Edmonds, Dominique Wilson

The End of the World by Paddy O'Reilly

NEW Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. Lopez

In a Bear's Eye by Yannick Murphy

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman, Christoper Barzak

Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin

Love Does Not Make me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods

Night Train  by Lise Erdrich

Precarious by Al Riske

Roll Up for the Arabian Derby by Susan Wicks

NEW Temporary Lives by Ramola D

NEW Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda

Winter Hands by Annie Clarkson