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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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