Twenty-five Favorite Unlinked Story Collections
(alphabetically by author, excluding Completes, Collecteds, and New and Selecteds, and motivated by this essay, which I like except for one aside)
The Musical Brain by César Aira
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Dream of the Wolf by Scott Bradfield
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
Blue Has No South by Alex Epstein
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
The Torturer’s Wife by Thomas Glave
In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
Florida by Lauren Groff
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell
Panics by Barbara Molinard
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
Esther Stories by Peter Orner
And Yet They Were Happy by Helen Phillips
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Microfictions by Ana Maria Shua
Escapes by Joy Williams
— October 2, 2022