Short story collections tend to be very hit-or-miss for me; I can usually find at least one or two stories to enjoy, but often the whole collection falls flat and I often DNF them. However, I would like to read more, both collections by an individual author and anthologies.
I've read:
- Lesser-Known Monsters of the Twenty-First Century by Kim Fu. Absolute banger, loved every story.
- First-Person Singular by Haruki Murakami. The only story I really enjoyed was "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey".
- His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler. I liked the premise of modernized Poe, and of the stories, I enjoyed "It's Carnival!" (A Cask of Amontillado), "Lygia," and "The Fall of the Bank of Usher," but the collection underwhelmed me.
- One short story from Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, "The Husband Stitch," and I liked it well enough.
- The titular story from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros. Loved it.
- War Dances by Sherman Alexie. Liked it pretty well, from what I recall.
- Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, another banger.
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I love No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July. Fantastic stories, no skips. I liked most of the stories in Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo as well. But MJ is brilliant and her two novels (one just released) are also so singular and special
My very favorite anthology is [The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12344319-the-weird), which has over a hundred short stories, all weird but covering a wide range of authors and styles and genres and time periods. Just a fantastic and huge collection.
Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs
The Diary of a Superfluous Man & Other Novellas by Ivan Turgenev
So far, I have been enjoying the book especially when I started with the First Love 🙂
*Dreams Underfoot* by Charles de Lint
Borges
Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser. Or any of his collections, really. He is a master of the form.