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Walden Pond Books

By Walden Pond Books

The Best Short Story Collections by a Single Author: Spring, 2021

"A good short story is a magic trick, and it's close-up magic. . .  If a story touches you, it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit." - Neil Gaiman

This is our pick of the most magical short story collections of the season (March 23 - June 21, 2021) .

  • Includes new paperback editions of books published last year in hardcover.

 

For short story collections published after June 21, 2021, check out our linked lists at the bottom of this page.

bookcover for The Recoleta Stories

The Recoleta Stories

Bryon Esmond Butler 

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Paperback

$16.99

$15.80

bookcover for Beneath a Pale Sky

Beneath a Pale Sky

Philip Fracassi, 

Josh Malerman 

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Paperback

$18.00

bookcover for Last Comes The Raven

Last Comes The Raven

Italo Calvino 

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Paperback

$18.99

bookcover for The Tangleroot Palace: Stories

The Tangleroot Palace: Stories

Marjorie Liu 

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Paperback

$16.95

$15.76

bookcover for Site Fidelity

Site Fidelity

Claire Boyles 

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Hardback

$25.95

$24.13

bookcover for Dreams for the Dying

Dreams for the Dying

Adam Light, 

Duncan Ralston 

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Paperback

$19.54

bookcover for The Best Stories of Arsène Lupin

The Best Stories of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc, 

Matthew Carey Salyer 

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Paperback

$17.99

$16.73

bookcover for What Makes You Think You're Awake?

What Makes You Think You're Awake?

Maegan Poland 

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Paperback

$17.95

$16.69

bookcover for Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Emilio Fraia, 

Zoe Perry 

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Paperback

$14.95

$13.90

bookcover for Walking on Cowrie Shells

Walking on Cowrie Shells

Nana Nkweti 

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Paperback

$16.00

$14.88

bookcover for On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Bo-Young Kim, 

Sunyoung Park, 

Joungmin Lee Comfort, 

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Paperback

$19.95

$18.55

bookcover for Honeycomb

Honeycomb

Joanne M. Harris, 

Charles Vess 

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Hardback

$32.00

$29.76

bookcover for The Lunacy Commission

The Lunacy Commission

Lavie Tidhar 

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Paperback

$14.99

bookcover for In the Event of Contact

In the Event of Contact

Ethel Rohan 

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Paperback

$16.95

$15.76

bookcover for Animal Spirit

Animal Spirit

Francesca Marciano 

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Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for The Night Archer

The Night Archer

Michael Oren 

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Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics

Jill McCorkle 

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Paperback

$21.99

bookcover for The Rock Eaters

The Rock Eaters

Brenda Peynado 

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Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Alien Stories

Alien Stories

E C Osondu 

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Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Echo Tree

Echo Tree

Henry Dumas, 

John Keene, 

Eugene Redmond 

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Paperback

$19.95

$18.55

bookcover for First Person Singular

First Person Singular

Haruki Murakami, 

Philip Gabriel 

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Hardback

$28.00

$26.04

bookcover for How to Pronounce Knife

How to Pronounce Knife

Souvankham Thammavongsa 

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Paperback

$17.99

$16.73

bookcover for Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories

Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories

Greg Roensch 

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Paperback

$15.00

$13.95

bookcover for The Moment of Tenderness

The Moment of Tenderness

Madeleine L'Engle 

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Paperback

$15.99

$14.87

bookcover for Motley Stones

Motley Stones

Adalbert Stifter, 

Isabel Fargo Cole 

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Paperback

$17.95

$16.69