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Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Collection | 4 stories

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Novella | 145 pages

Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell

Short Collection | 14 stories

Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

Short Collection | 13 stories

Daddy by Emma Cline

Short Collection | 10 stories

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

Novella | 91 pages

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

Novella | 132 pages

The BBC National Short Story Award 2022

Anthology | 5 stories

Book cover for Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Short Collection | 11 stories

Supporting Cast by Kit De Waal

Short Collection | 22 stories

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Novella | 176 pages

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

Novella | 127 pages

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Novella | 195 pages

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

Novella | 173 pages

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer

Short Collection | 13 stories

My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

Anthology | 23 stories

The Dolls by Ursula Scavenius

Short Collection | 4 stories

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

Short Collection | 12 stories

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

Novella | 172 pages

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Novella | 166 pages

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

Novella | 176 pages

Ghost Stories by M. R. James

Short Collection | 14 stories

Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell

Short Collection | 11 stories

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

Novella | 149 pages

Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Novella | 200 pages

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault

Novella | 139 pages

The Dog Husband & Other Stories by Rose McDonagh

Short Collection | 15 stories

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Novella | 112 pages

They Shoot Horses Don’t They? by Horace McCoy

Novella | 121 pages

Licensed Premises by Neil Campbell

Short Collection | 14 stories

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Novella | 177 pages

The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories by Mavis Gallant

Short Collection | 20 stories

Learning to Swim by Graham Swift

Learning to Swim by Graham Swift

Short Collection | 11 stories

The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins

Short Collection | 14 stories

We The Animals by Justin Torres

Novella | 125 pages

The Long Dry by Cynan Jones

Novella | 112 pages

Night, Neon by Joyce Carol Oates

Short Collection | 9 stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Short Collection | 18 stories

Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

Short Collection | 8 stories

Light Box by K J Orr

Highway Blue by Ailsa McFarlane

Novella | 189 pages

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Novella | 183 pages

Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Short Collection | 31 stories

Send Nudes by Saba Sams

Short Collection | 10 stories

The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman

Novella | 192 pages

Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

Short Collection | 9 stories

In The Absence of Men by Philippe Besson

Novella | 192 pages

The Innocent by David Szalay

Novella | 192 pages

Bear by Marian Engel

Novella | 176 pages

Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris

Novella | 160 pages

Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf

Novella | 176 pages

Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg

Short Collection | 6 stories

The Quarry by Damon Galgut

Novella | 176 pages

Like Life by Lorrie Moore

Short Collection | 8 stories

Being Various: New Irish Short Stories

Anthology | 24 stories

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

Novella | 194 pages

Beneath the Bonfire by Nickolas Butler

Short Collection | 10 stories

The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Short Collection | 23 stories

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Short Collection | 11 stories

The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Short Collection | 32 stories

Elevation by Stephen King

Novella | 192 pages

Madame Zero by Sarah Hall

Madame Zero by Sarah Hall

Short Collection | 9 stories

To the Warm Horizon by Jin-Young Choi

Novella | 176 pages

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Novella | 183 pages

Ways of Living by Gemma Seltzer

Short Collection | 10 stories

Modern Times by Cathy Sweeney

Short Collection | 21 stories

Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor

Short Collection | 13 stories

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Novella | 176 pages

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

Short Collection | 18 stories

The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Iván Repila

The Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse by Iván Repila

Novella | 106 pages

The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne

Novella | 192 pages

Queer Life, Queer Love: An Anthology

Anthology | 42 stories

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola

Novella | 144 pages

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

Novella | 148 pages

Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

Novella | 96 pages

Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Short Collection | 15 stories

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novella | 172 pages

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Novella | 110 pages

There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry

Short Collection | 13 stories

You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

Short Collection | 11 stories

Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

Novella | 182 pages

Assembly by Natasha Brown

Novella | 100 pages

How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

Short Collection | 11 stories

Idol, Burning by Rin Usami

Novella | 119 pages

Shatila Stories

Anthology | 12 stories

Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Short Collection | 11 stories

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Novella | 128 pages

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret

Short Collection | 16 stories

Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone by John Edgar Wideman

Short Collection | 21 stories

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy De Maupassant

Short Collection | 33 stories

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Short Collection | 14 stories

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

Novella | 144 pages

The Lady with the Little Dog & Other Stories by Anton Chekov

Short Collection | 13 stories

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason

Short Collection | 9 stories

Reward System by Jem Calder

Short Collection | 6 stories

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett

Short Collection | 20 stories

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

Short Collection | 37 stories

I Wanted To Be Close To You by Katie Oliver

Short Collection | 20 stories

Things You Should Know by A.M. Homes

Short Collection | 11 stories

Reverse Engineering

Anthology | 7 stories

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

Short Collection | 15 stories

The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels

Novella | 192 pages

Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty

Short Collection | 12 stories

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Novella | 192 pages

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Novella | 153 pages

The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

Novella | 120 pages

The Yogini by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

Novella | 200 pages

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan

Novella | 112 pages

Candescent Blooms by Andrew Hook

Short Collection | 12 stories

Terminal Zones by Gareth E. Rees

Short Collection | 10 stories

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Novella | 152 pages

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South

Grimm Tales by Philip Pullman

Short Collection | 53 stories

The Stories of David Leavitt by David Leavitt

Short Collection | 28 stories

Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood

Short Collection | 15 stories

Who’s Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour

Anthology | 10 stories

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

Novella | 118 pages

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Short Collection | 8 stories

The Earth Wire by Joel Lane

Short Collection | 17 stories

Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi

Novella | 192 pages

Turbulence by David Szalay

Turbulence by David Szalay

Short Collection | 12 stories

A Down Home Meal For These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

Short Collection | 15 stories

The End of the World is a Cul De Sac by Louise Kennedy

Short Collection | 13 stories

Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

Novella | 96 pages

Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy

Short Collection | 12 stories

Sweet Home by Carys Bray

Short Collection | 17 stories

Dance Move by Wendy Erskine

Short Collection | 11 stories

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

Short Collection | 15 stories

Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus

Short Collection | 15 stories

The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Novella | 99 pages

The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa

Novella | 112 pages

West by Carys Davies

Novella | 149 pages

The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis

Novella | 200 pages

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Novella | 160 pages

Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors

Short Collection | 14 stories

A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli

Novella | 144 pages

Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis

Novella | 96 pages

Dear Life by Alice Munro

Short Collection | 14 stories

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor

Short Collection | 30 stories

The Sky Above The Roof by Nathacha Appanah

Novella | 144 pages

Lake Like A Mirror by Sok Fong Ho

Short Collection | 9 stories

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Short Collection | 12 stories

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Short Collection | 11 stories

Plain Pleasures by Jane Bowles

Short Collection | 5 stories

For Esme With Love And Squalor by J. D. Salinger

Short Collection | 9 stories

Dubliners by James Joyce

Short Collection | 15 stories

The High Places by Fiona McFarlane

Short Collection | 14 stories

Astonishing The Gods by Ben Okri

Novella | 160 pages

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Short Collection | 9 stories

Mayhem & Death by Helen McClory

Short Collection | 34 stories

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Collection | 12 stories

Notebook by Tom Cox

Novella | 144 pages

Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin

Novella | 160 pages

Parallel Hells by Leon Craig

Short Collection | 13 stories

Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare

Anthology | 12 stories

Mothers by Chris Power

Short Collection | 10 stories

Am I In The Right Place by Ben Pester

Am I In The Right Place? by Ben Pester

Short Collection | 11 stories

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Novella | 102 pages

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

Novella | 192 pages

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Novella | 176 pages

The Parade by Dave Eggers

Novella | 179 pages

The Walk by Robert Walser

Short Collection | 42 stories

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Novella | 192 pages

Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem

Short Collection | 5 stories

Reverse Engineering II

Anthology | 8 stories

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Short Collection | 6 stories

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

Novella | 160 pages

The Man Who Wouldn’t Get Up by David Lodge

Short Collection | 8 stories

Large Animals by Jess Arndt

Short Collection | 12 stories

Heavy Water by Martin Amis

Short Collection | 9 stories

Termush by Sven Holm

Novella | 119 pages

The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada

Novella | 144 pages

Mammals, I Think We Are Called by Giselle Leeb

Short Collection | 18 stories

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Novella | 200 pages

Heatwave by Victor Jestin

Novella | 112 pages

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Novella | 160 pages

Young Skins by Colin Barrett

Short Collection | 7 stories

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

Short Collection | 10 stories

Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley

Short Collection | 7 stories

Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

Short Collection | 10 stories

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Novella | 160 pages

NudiBranch by Irenosen Okojie

Short Collection | 12 stories

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Novella | 191 pages

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Short Collection | 26 stories

Legoland by Gerard Woodward

Short Collection | 15 stories

The Cranes That Build The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson

Short Collection | 9 stories

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

Short Collection | 21 stories

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Short Collection | 8 stories

Waiting for the Gift: Stories Inspired by Low

Anthology | 11 stories

Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

Short Collection | 9 stories

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

Novella | 192 pages

Sum Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman

SUM: Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman

Short Collection | 40 stories

Brief Interview with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Short Collection | 23 stories

24 Stories: Of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire

Anthology | 24 stories

Animals at Night by Naomi Booth

Novella | 217 pages

The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese

Novella | 112 pages

Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery

Short Collection | 256 pages

Dream Story by Arthur Shnitzler

Novella | 99 pages

First Person Singular by Hakuri Murakami

Short Collection | 8 stories

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Novella | 192 pages

Dark Entries by Robert Aickmen

Short Collection | 6 stories

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro. Cover is a purple design with a square in the centre. The square displays the edge of a vinyl record that doubles as a moon reflecting on black water.

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

Short Collection | 5 stories

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Novella | 144 pages

Missing by Alison Moore

Novella | 188 pages

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Short Collection | 8 stories

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Novella | 176 pages

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Short Collection | 17 stories

Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine

Short Collection | 10 stories

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Short Collection | 12 stories

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

Short Collection | 43 stories

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amar El-Mothar and Max Gladstone

Novella | 200 pages

Male Tears by Benjamin Myers

Short Collection | 18 stories

Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich

Short Collection | 11 stories

Silk by Alessandro Baricco

Novella | 156 pages

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah

Novella | 160 pages

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

Novella | 125 pages

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Novella | 200 pages

That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu

Novella | 117 pages

They by Kay Dick

Novella | 128 pages

Orange World by Karen Russell

Short Collection | 8 stories

Stories by Susan Sontag

Short Collection | 11 stories

The Djinn Falls in Love

Anthology | 21 stories

Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Novella | 117 pages

Grown Ups by Marie Aubert

Novella | 160 pages

Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories

Anthology | 13 stories

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola

Novella | 176 pages

Dead Relatives by Lucie McKnight Hardy

Short Collection | 13 stories

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Novella | 176 pages

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Collection | 11 stories

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi

Novella | 163 pages

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Novella | 140 pages

Gender Euphoria: Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers

Anthology | 19 stories

Youth by J. M. Coetzee

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Novella | 192 pages

The Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles by Angela Readman

Short Collection | 25 stories

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

Short Collection | 9 stories

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Short Collection | 10 stories

Last Night At The Lobster by Stewart O’Nan

Novella | 146

The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

Short Collection | 9 stories

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Collection | 19 stories

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

Short Collection | 8 stories

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

Short Collection | 9 stories

The Lost Art of Sinking by Naomi Booth

Novella | 86 pages

New Boy by Tracey Chevalier

Novella | 188 pages

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Novella | 160 pages

Grand Union by Zadie Smith

Short Collection | 19 stories

The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Böll

Novella | 108 pages

I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel

Novella | 203 pages

This Paradise by Ruby Cowling

Short Collection | 10 stories

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Novella | 176 pages

Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley

Short Collection | 27 stories

What Becomes by A. L. Kennedy

Short Collection | 12 stories

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Novella | 130 pages

Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligraich

Novella | 192 pages

The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider

Novella | 136 pages

The Fat Artist & Other Stories by Benjamin Hale

Short Collection | 7 stories

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Novella | 144 pages

The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self

Short Collection | 6 stories

The Employees by Olga Ravn

The Employees by Olga Ravn

Novella | 136 pages