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Faber Stories Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Faber Stories books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Faber Stories series? Start with "A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)" (1955) and follow publication order through all 48 books.
The complete Faber Stories reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)
1955
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)
1968
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)
1982
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)
1983
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)
1989
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)
1997
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)
1998
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)
2009
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)
2011
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)
2012
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)
2014
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)
2014
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)
2016
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)
2019
The Victim (By: P.D. James)
2019
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)
2019
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)
2019
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)
2019
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)
2019
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)
2019
Terrific Mother
2019
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)
2019
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)
2019
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)
2019
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)
2019
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)
2019
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)
2019
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)
2019
Points of View
1956
New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties
1986
The Best American Short Stories 1991
1991
The Literary Traveller
1994
Granta 54
1996
The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood
1998
Ploughshares Fall, 1998
1998
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
Wonderful Town
2000
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
2002
PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction
2002
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
The Best American Short Stories 2004
2004
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
2005
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories
2015
Daedalus: On the Novel: 150:1, Winter 2021
2021
The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners
2022
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