Paul's votes on the list Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections

Listopia > Paul's votes on the list Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections (83 Books)

1	The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.22 avg rating — 51,962 ratings Paul rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 3.81 avg rating — 32,118 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke 3.87 avg rating — 24,573 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman 3.93 avg rating — 2,311 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer 3.88 avg rating — 8,025 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 4.14 avg rating — 98,184 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins 4.11 avg rating — 5,576 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson 3.91 avg rating — 1,495 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 4,496 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 946 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	In the Country by Mia Alvar 4.07 avg rating — 4,242 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 16,657 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	There are Little Kingdoms: Stories by Kevin Barry 4.07 avg rating — 1,498 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 463 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead by Chanelle Benz 3.48 avg rating — 478 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 3,182 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin 4.18 avg rating — 38,354 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Things that Fall from the Sky: Stories by Kevin Brockmeier 3.91 avg rating — 681 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell 3.75 avg rating — 1,901 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington 3.98 avg rating — 3,925 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins 3.83 avg rating — 4,446 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 3,502 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	We've Already Gone This Far by Patrick Dacey (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 246 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 1,218 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 2,682 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Wilds by Julia Elliott (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 1,219 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander 3.74 avg rating — 8,323 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett 4.02 avg rating — 1,677 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 695 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories by Ben Fountain 3.94 avg rating — 3,366 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Ayiti by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 8,453 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Dead Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder 3.95 avg rating — 193 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Gutshot by Amelia Gray (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 2,268 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 6,410 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 381 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Madame Zero: 9 Stories by Sarah Hall 3.68 avg rating — 1,458 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny 3.55 avg rating — 6,411 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez 4.09 avg rating — 696 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 5,366 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 710 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Daddy's by Lindsay Hunter (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 399 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Knockout by John Jodzio (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 334 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones 3.82 avg rating — 2,571 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 3,124 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson 3.09 avg rating — 478 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 1,371 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9) by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.33 avg rating — 6,413 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee 3.89 avg rating — 4,962 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	We Come to Our Senses: Stories by Odie Lindsey 3.74 avg rating — 107 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Get in Trouble by Kelly Link 3.67 avg rating — 13,129 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector 4.37 avg rating — 4,480 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 40,824 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail by Kelly Luce (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 436 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 110,387 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 2,061 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken 3.90 avg rating — 2,584 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Heartbreaker by Maryse Meijer 3.75 avg rating — 733 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 6,396 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 4,591 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	I Was a Revolutionary by Andrew Malan Milward really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro 3.96 avg rating — 28,592 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 3.77 avg rating — 60,988 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	You Are My Heart and Other Stories by Jay Neugeboren 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 22,581 ratings Paul rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 3,547 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Revenge by Yōko Ogawa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33,181 ratings Paul rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 365 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 1,522 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories by Mary Rickert 4.07 avg rating — 102 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Republic of East L.A. by Luis J. Rodríguez 4.01 avg rating — 462 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Telling the Map by Christopher Rowe (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 126 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 6,865 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 2,734 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by Vandana Singh 4.05 avg rating — 616 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Virginity of Famous Men by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 298 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 1,258 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Monstress by Lysley Tenorio (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 1,886 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 1,173 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade 4.07 avg rating — 2,038 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 1,271 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	Honored Guest by Joy Williams 3.93 avg rating — 1,289 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Diving Belles by Lucy Wood 3.49 avg rating — 1,106 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang 3.68 avg rating — 8,422 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars