Short stories
Every short stories author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Short story collections hand you a complete world in a single sitting, then another right after. These series and collections are ordered for you.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a Zimbabwean-born author who writes thrillers. She lived and worked in Zimbabwe for many years before moving...
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Jeneva Rose
Jeneva Rose writes psychological thrillers, suspense novels, and women's fiction. She made her debut as a novelist in 2020 with...
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Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author and physician who turned personal displacement into universal stories. He practiced medicine for ten...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Matthew FitzSimmons
Matthew FitzSimmons writes thrillers, drawing on a transatlantic sensibility shaped by growing up between worlds, born in Illinois and raised...
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Cara Hunter
Cara Hunter is an English author who writes the DI Adam Fawley series of crime novels. She lives in Oxford,...
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Julie Clark
Julie Clark is a novelist who grew up in Santa Monica, California, reading books on the beach. After attending college...
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Jackie Kabler
Jackie Kabler is a British author who writes psychological thrillers and the Cora Baxter Mysteries series, bringing the sharp instincts...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author who writes romantic comedies and has also published journalism in The New York Times,...
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Lily King
Lily King is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that probes the friction between ambition, desire, and the human...
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Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner is an American author who writes historical fiction. Penner traded the ledgers of corporate finance for the shadowed...
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of a former newspaper editor and lawyer. She was...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist and screenwriter who gave a generation its defining coming-of-age story with The Perks of...
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Chevy Stevens
Chevy Stevens is a Canadian author of psychological thrillers. Her debut novel, Still Missing, published in 2010, came from a...
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Ellery Lloyd
Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym of the London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos, who write psychological thrillers...
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Samantha Downing
Samantha Downing writes thriller novels. Her path to publication was long, involving a dozen unfinished or completed books before her...
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Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist who writes dark, psychologically unsettling fiction about characters who live on the margins. Born...
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Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American novelist who writes young adult romance, and she has also co-authored collaborative fiction. She grew...
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Alex North
Alex North is a British crime thriller novelist who debuted under this pen name in 2019 with The Whisper Man,...
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Emma Cline
Emma Cline is an American novelist and short story writer who was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists...
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Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield is an English novelist who writes literary gothic fiction, and she made her name in 2006 with The...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015. That's the year Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer and changed the conversation about war, memory, and who gets...
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Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a British author who writes high-concept mysteries that twist time, identity, and logic into something entirely new....
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Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter who writes comic fiction about modern womanhood. The Guardian named her 1996...
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Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American novelist who earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2013 for The Snow Child, her debut...
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Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is an American novelist who writes contemporary fiction about family, money, and the complications that bind people...
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Pamela Callow
Pamela Callow is a Canadian thriller writer whose debut, Damaged, was named a Levy Home Entertainment Need to Read Pick...
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Paul Murray
Paul Murray is an Irish author of comic fiction novels. He made his debut in 2003 with the novel An...
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Nick Stephenson
Nick Stephenson is an English author of thrillers and suspense novels. He launched his career in 2013 with the novel...
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Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is an author and editor whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The...
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Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez is an American author of techno-thriller novels, drawing on a lifelong interest in both technology and writing. Before...
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Han Kang
Han Kang is a South Korean novelist, short story writer, and poet whose fiction explores the violence inscribed on bodies...
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Amanda Bouchet
Amanda Bouchet is an American author who writes fantasy romance and space opera romance, delivering equal parts high-stakes adventure and...
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Jennifer Robson
Jennifer Robson is a Canadian author of historical fiction novels, most notably those set during and after the two world...
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Brian Staveley
Brian Staveley, an American author, debuted as a novelist in 2014 with The Emperor's Blades, initiating the Chronicle of the...
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Elena Armas
Elena Armas writes romantic comedies that make readers blush in public. The Spanish author, a self-described hopeless romantic and book...
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Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold is an American author who writes literary fiction novels and non-fiction books. She is known for her raw...
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Tyler Dilts
Tyler Dilts is an American author who writes crime thrillers that blend procedural precision with emotional depth. The son of...
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Anne Griffin
Anne Griffin is an Irish novelist who writes intimate, searching fiction about memory, obligation, and the weight of what we...
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Becca Fitzpatrick
Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author who writes young adult novels spanning urban fantasy and psychological suspense. She made her...
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Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is an American author who writes horror novels. She holds a degree in Writing for Film & Television...
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Stephanie Perkins
Stephanie Perkins is an American author of young adult novels. She is the author of the Anna and the French...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Virgin Suicides, his 1993 debut novel....
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SJ Bennett
SJ Bennett is an English novelist who writes cozy mysteries featuring Queen Elizabeth II. She holds a PhD in Modern...
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