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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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