Short Stories - Collections of Short Stories

Ford County is John Grisham's first collection of short stories. Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of A Time to Kill, and brings readers seven stories of life in this small, Southern setting.

'Olive Kitteridge' by Elizabeth Strout is described as "a novel in stories." Each story is moving and well-written on its own. Taken together, it is clear why this book won Elizabeth Strout the Pulitzer Prize.

'Our Story Begins' says it all. Tobias Wolff captures our stories with his clear distinct voice. With his focused direction, a short story never says so much.

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan is a collection of five short stories, each taking place in a different country in Africa, each told from the perspective of a child.

Jhumpa Lahiri is one of today’s most acclaimed writers, having won a Pulitzer Prize for her first collection of short stories, 'Interpreter of Maladies.' Her placid, poetic writing is back in another collection of stories, 'Unaccustomed Earth.'