# The Best Short Stories Books

> Answers the query: “best short stories books”

_Last updated: 2026-07-25_

## The list

1. **People We Love Preeti Shenoy**, Shency.
   https://www.altbook.net/book/people-we-love-preeti-shenoy
2. **I think of you**, Ahdaf Soueif (ISBN 9780747588191)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/i-think-of-you
3. **Another Kind Of Cinderella And Other Stories**, Angela Huth (ISBN 9781448200542)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/another-kind-of-cinderella-and-other-stories
4. **Funny Once**, Antonya Nelson (ISBN 9781620408629)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/funny-once
5. **Problems with people**, David Guterson (ISBN 9781408859995)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/problems-with-people
6. **Gods and angels**, David Park (ISBN 9781408866085)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/gods-and-angels
7. **Africa39**, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (ISBN 9781408854662)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/africa39
8. **Austenistan**, Laleen Sukhera (ISBN 9789386950284)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/austenistan
9. **Beirut 39**, Samuel Shimon (ISBN 9781408809631)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/beirut-39
10. **This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You**, Jon McGregor (ISBN 9781408830383)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/this-isnt-the-sort-of-thing-that-happens-to-someone-like-you
11. **Coup de foudre**, Ken Kalfus (ISBN 9781632863805)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/coup-de-foudre
12. **Moral disorder**, Margaret Atwood (ISBN 9780747581628)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/moral-disorder
13. **Stone Mattress**, Margaret Atwood (ISBN 9781408857168)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/stone-mattress
14. **The Tent**, Margaret Atwood (ISBN 9780747584940)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-tent
15. **Frankenstein dreams**, Michael Sims (ISBN 9781632860415)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/frankenstein-dreams
16. **This Is the Ritual**, Rob Doyle (ISBN 9781408865378)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/this-is-the-ritual
17. **Are You Enjoying?**, Mira Sethi (ISBN 9781408895054)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/are-you-enjoying-5054
18. **Time Travellers Almanac**, Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov (ISBN 9781800249707)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/time-travellers-almanac
19. **That Glimpse of Truth**, David Miller, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (ISBN 9781800249646)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/that-glimpse-of-truth
20. **The Paper Menagerie**, Ken Liu (ISBN 9781784975692)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-paper-menagerie
21. **Invisible Planets**, Ken Liu (ISBN 9781786692788)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/invisible-planets
22. **Prayer for the Living**, Ben Okri (ISBN 9781789544619)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/prayer-for-the-living
23. **White Cat, Black Dog**, Kelly Link (ISBN 9781804548417)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/white-cat-black-dog
24. **Tales of Horror**, Edgar Allan Poe (ISBN 9781847496096)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/tales-of-horror
25. **Flappers and Philosophers**, F. Scott Fitzgerald (ISBN 9781847493460)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/flappers-and-philosophers
26. **Humorous Tales**, Rudyard Kipling (ISBN 9781847496720)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/humorous-tales
27. **His Last Bow**, Arthur Conan Doyle (ISBN 9781847498878)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/his-last-bow
28. **Into the Uncut Grass**, Trevor Noah (ISBN 9781399821339)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/into-the-uncut-grass
29. **Barrel Fever**, David Sedaris (ISBN 9780349119762)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/barrel-fever
30. **Life's Too Short**, Faiza S. Khan, Aysha Raja (ISBN 9789350092835)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/lifes-too-short

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Source: AltBook, https://www.altbook.net/collections/best-short-stories-books