Top 5 Short Story Collections Where Every Story Wrecks You a Little
Books you meant to read one story a night, until you looked up and it was way past midnight and you'd finished the whole thing.
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Tenth of December — George Saunders
Funny, strange and wildly kind all at once, and the title story might be the most humane thing written this century.
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Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
Quiet stories about marriages and distance that hit harder than any thriller, and 'A Temporary Matter' is close to flawless.
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Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
Each story is a whole sci-fi novel's worth of ideas packed into a few pages, and the title story became the movie Arrival.
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Jesus' Son — Denis Johnson
A thin, shaky, beautiful book about addicts and drifters, with sentences so strange and sharp you'll read them twice.
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find — Flannery O'Connor
Southern stories that are funny right up until they're terrifying, and the title story still ambushes readers seventy years later.