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Mystery
The Perfect Crime: Around the World in 22 Murders
Edited by Khan Vaseem
M KHAN Vaseem
Murder, blackmail, revenge from Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York - twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories.
Science Fiction
Lake of Souls
By Ann Leckie
SF LECKIE Ann
Journey across the stars, listen to the words of the Old Gods, and learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls in this short fiction collection.
A View from the Stars
By Cixin Liu
SF LIU Cixin
Liu’s stories and essays explore what science fiction is and could be.
Fiction
The Goodbye Cat
By Hiro Arikawa
F ARIKAWA Hira
Seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives, climbing, comforting, and sometimes just tripping everyone up
Fourteen Days
Edited by Margaret Atwood
F ATWOOD Margaret
This Decameron-like collection of stories takes place in a NYC apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Onlookers
By Ann Beattie
F BEATIE Ann
This collection presents stories about people living in Charlottesville, whose lives intersect in surprising ways.
Temple Folk
By Aaliyah Bilal
F BILAL Aaliyah
Ten stories portray the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.
Gods of Want
K-Ming Chang
F CHANG K-Ming
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women.
The Faraway World
Patricia Engle
F ENGLE Patricia
These haunting stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the quiet moments of love.
Never Whistle at Night
Edited by Shane Hawk
F HAWK Shane
Celebrating Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, these spinetingling stories introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, and unsettling acts of revenge.
Selected Stores
By Franz Kafka
F KAFKA Franz
Mark Harman's English translations convey the uniqueness of Kafka's wit, irony, and cadence.
Roman Stories
By Jhumpa Lahiri
F LAHIRI Jhumpa
This masterful collection has Rome as the protagonist, not the setting.
Bliss Montage
By Ling Ma
F MA Ling
These haunting stories artfully share the experience of Chinese American women with humor and surreal elements.
Fit for the Gods
Edited by Jenn Northington
F NORTHINGTON Jenn
An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth.
Cold Vision
By T.R. Oatman
F OATMAN TR
This collection of supernatural stories is garnished with stormy skies, creaking stairs and things that go bump in the night!
Stag Dance
By Torrey Peters
F PETERS Torrey
This collection explores community, desire, and the complexities of gender.
The Forgetters
By Greg Sarris
F SARRIS Greg
Perched atop Gravity Hill, two crow sisters recall stories from dawn to dusk.
Always Will Be
By Mykaela Saunders
F SAUNDERS Mykaela
This forward-thinking collection refuses cynicism and despair, and instead offers entertaining stories that celebrate Goori ways of being, knowing, doing and becoming.
Dear Chrysanthemums
By Fiona Sze-Lorrain
F SZE-LORRAIN Fiona
This collection renders a devastating portrait of diasporic life and inhumanity, as well as a tender web of shared memory, artistic expression, and love.
Night of the Living Rez
By Morgan Talty
F TALTY Morgan
Set in a Native community in Maine, this collection of stories shares what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century.
Night Side of the River
By Jeanette Winterson
F WINTERSON Jeanette
This collection of ghost stories examines grief, revenge, and the ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
Elsewhere
By Ge Yan
F YAN Ge
A young woman bonds with an encampment of poets after a devastating earthquake. These stories wend toward elsewhere, a just-out-of-reach place familiar to anyone who has ever experienced longing.