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New Stories From The South Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of New Stories From The South 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 New Stories From The South series? Start with "New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)" (1988) and follow publication order through all 42 books.
The complete New Stories From The South reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1988
New Stories from the South 1992 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1992
New Stories from the South 1993 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1993
New Stories from the South 1994 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1994
New Stories from the South 1995 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1995
New Stories from the South 1996 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
1996
New Stories from the South 1997
1997
New Stories from the South 1998 (By: Padgett Powell)
1998
New Stories from the South 1999 (By: Tony Earley)
1999
New Stories from the South 2000 (By: Ellen Douglas)
2000
New Stories from the South 2001 (By: Lee Smith)
2001
New Stories from the South 2003 (By: Shannon Ravenel)
2003
New Stories from the South 2004 (By: Allan Gurganus)
2004
New Stories from the South, 2005 (By: Jill McCorkle)
2005
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)
2005
New Stories from the South 2006 (By: Allan Gurganus,Kathy Pories)
2006
New Stories from the South 2007 (By: Allan Gurganus)
2007
New Stories from the South 2008 (By: Z.Z. Packer)
2008
New Stories from the South 2009 (By: Madison Smartt Bell)
2009
New Stories from the South 2010 (By: Amy Hempel)
2010
The Best American Short Stories 1991
1991
The Best American Short Stories 1994
1994
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
1996
The Best American Erotica 1996
1996
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
The Good Parts
2000
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com
2000
Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
2003
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
The Future Dictionary of America
2004
The 2004 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
2005
Verb, An Audioquarterly, Volume 1, No. 1
2005
The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
2006
The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
2007
Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives
2007
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
The 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
2008
The 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
2011
Astoria to Zion
2013
In Sunlight or In Shadow
2016
The Best Peace Fiction
2021
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