I love how with short story compilations, I can put them down after a certain story, and then pick it up and not feel like I need to remember anything. I am so okay with any genre, author, time period! I would love diversity in what I read.
by throwyawayytime
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[Exhalation by Ted Chiang](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41160292).
Kiss Kiss by Road Dahl
R is for Rocket or S is for Space from Ray Bradbury
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Trailer Park by Russel Banks
Deathbird Storied by Harlan Ellison
I just read Tenth of December by George Saunders and loved it. Fantastic writing, very thought proving, some disturbing themes.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker. I love Pinsker’s voice. The last story, “And then there were (N-one)” is particularly strong.
Some Rain Must Fall by Michel Faber
The Fahrenheit Twins by Michael Faber
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Anything by Ray Bradbury
Anything by Cordwainer Smith
Any collection of the stories by O Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Collected Stories of Arthur C Clark
Many of the books that Ray Bradbury wrote, including The Martian Chronicles, are actually collections of short stories.
Shit Cassandra Saw
Bestiary – Julio Cortázar,
Things we lost in the fire – Mariana Enriquez
Not “stories” in the traditional sense, but the “Great Shark Hunt” by Hunter S. Thompson is a collection of his articles from Rolling Stone, Playboy and more.
Apocryphal Tales, Karel Čapek
How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
[Seven Empty Houses](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60206505) was so good. And please check out [The Interpreter of Maladies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5439.Interpreter_of_Maladies) by Jhumpa Lahiri. What a talent!