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Best Short Story Collections of All Time: Essential Reads

The best short story collections prove that a few pages can do what a novel can't — drop you into a life midstream and leave you changed. This list covers the greatest short story collections ever written, from Joyce's Dubliners to Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties. These are the essential reads for anyone who loves the form: Borges, Carver, O'Connor, Lahiri, Saunders, and more — each collection a world unto itself.