Summary: "As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses."--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2020

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Summary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Summary: Presents a collection of the genre's best short stories that have been published in the United States or Canada during the year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Summary: In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021

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Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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Summary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Summary: Presents a collection of the best mystery stories written during 2015.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: Presents a collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories written during 2016.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Summary: "Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Outlander series, a latest annual edition compiles top-selected short works of science fiction and fantasy from the year 2019."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Summary: The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021

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Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Summary: Gathers together six of the most beloved stories by a master storyteller, and brings to life the enchanting characters to create a timeless collection.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001

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Summary: Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Tremain, Rose

Summary: "Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015

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Summary: New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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Summary: Few parts of America are as historied as the South, so it's no surprise that many southern horror stories feature the long-lived vampire. Vampire Stories from the American South is a feast of fear for lovers of vampire fiction, offering a dozen tales in which insatiable vampires prowl plantations and scour the bayous in search of mortal blood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2007

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Summary: "An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Summary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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Summary: "In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017

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