ITT: Favorite Collection of Short Stories

My Favorite:
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Post your favorites, I need recommendations

one I just picked up

Any other takers?

fuck this board then

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Tenth Of December

are two of my fav. collections

Seconding What We Talk About, as well as Cathedral by Carver
Tenth of December was very hit or miss in my opinion

Flannery O'Connor and Jorge Luis Borges
>those are authors not books
fight me

First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey

The Collected Stories of Breece DJ Pancake

In Our Time Hemmingway

gogol's shorts, pushkin, borges, welcome to the monkey house by vonnegut... pleb shit really.

James Salter and Irwin Shaw were underrated short story writers, probably better known for their novels. I think Salter's collection was called Dusk and other stories and Shaw's was Sailor off the Bremen

Thank you all

I've gotten on a NYRB Classics kick this summer and this one has stood out. Super cozy read and I highly recommend reading this season.

I suppose it's technically vignettes with the same characters rather than separate, independent stories in a collection but I think it still fits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami is probably his most consistent work to date.

Maybe this is just assumed here, but don't forget Dubliners of course

The Insanity Defense by Woody Allen.

Adam Johnson's Fortune Smiles is bretty gud
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant is also great.

This, as well as Eyes.

Controlled Burn by Scott Wolven

Eleven Kinds of Lonelines
Liars in Love
Dubliners

Thirding basically any Raymond Carver collection but in particular Where I'm Calling From. Also Ficciones by Borges and Dubliners.

The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft

The Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway

I much prefer Hemingway's short stories to his novels

Airships by Barry "Da Gawd" Hannah

Kipling, I'm not sure anyone matches him in writing about indians, hindus, buddhists, sikhs, and colonial brits in India.

Even Indians can't surpass kipling writing about their own people,kipling was that special kind of person born on both sides and able to appreciate and criticize both sides equally, maybe biased at times, but can you blame him, England brought modern civilization and technology and education to India among other things.

I envy him deeply and wish I could live in his time. His short stories are not to be overlooked.

Confederates in the Attic

Street of Crocodiles / Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Kafka Complete Short Stories
Kornél Esti by Dezső Kosztolányi
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Locos by Felipe Alfau
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Lu Xun's stories

Last Evenings on Earth by Bolaño.
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs by Vollmann.
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace.

Street of Crocodiles

The Oranging of America

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

The Things They Carried (I'm counting it)

The first four you posted are my favourites too, so I'll take the others as strong recommendations.

katherine mansfield - the garden party
italo calvino - mr palomar
david foster wallace - brief interviews with hideous men
richard yates - eleven kinds of loneliness
elmore leonard - the complete western stories
william h. gass - in the heart of the heart of the country
any collection of gogol, chekhov, lovecraft, kafka